This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of 2 icosahedra. It has octahedral symmetry O_h. As a holosnub, it is represented by Schläfli symbol β{3,4} and Coxeter diagram .

Compound of two icosahedra
Type	Uniform compound
Index	UC46
Schläfli symbols	β{3,4} βr{3,3}
Coxeter diagrams
Polyhedra	2 icosahedra
Faces	16+24 triangles
Edges	60
Vertices	24
Symmetry group	octahedral (Oh)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent	pyritohedral (Th)

The triangles in this compound decompose into two orbits under action of the symmetry group: 16 of the triangles lie in coplanar pairs in octahedral planes, while the other 24 lie in unique planes.

It shares the same vertex arrangement as a nonuniform truncated octahedron, having irregular hexagons alternating with long and short edges.

Nonuniform and uniform truncated octahedra. The first shares its vertex arrangement with this compound.

The icosahedron, as a uniform snub tetrahedron, is similar to these snub-pair compounds: compound of two snub cubes and compound of two snub dodecahedra.

Together with its convex hull, it represents the icosahedron-first projection of the nonuniform snub tetrahedral antiprism.

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of this compound are all the permutations of

(±1, 0, ±τ)

where τ = (1+√5)/2 is the golden ratio (sometimes written φ).

The dual compound has two dodecahedra as pyritohedra in dual positions:

• Compound of two snub cubes

• Skilling, John (1976), "Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79 (3): 447–457, doi:10.1017/S0305004100052440, MR 0397554.

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