In geometry, a deltahedron (plural deltahedra) is a polyhedron whose faces are all equilateral triangles. The name is taken from the Greek upper case delta (Δ), which has the shape of an equilateral triangle. There are infinitely many deltahedra, all having an even number of faces by the handshaking lemma. Of these only eight are convex, having 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 20 faces.^[1] The number of faces, edges, and vertices is listed below for each of the eight convex deltahedra.

There are eight strictly-convex deltahedra: three are regular polyhedra and Platonic solids, all eight are Johnson solids.

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Regular deltahedra
Image	Name	Faces	Edges	Vertices	Vertex configurations	Symmetry group
	tetrahedron	4	6	4	4 × 33	Td, [3,3]
	octahedron	8	12	6	6 × 34	Oh, [4,3]
	icosahedron	20	30	12	12 × 35	Ih, [5,3]
Irregular deltahedra
Image	Name	Faces	Edges	Vertices	Vertex configurations	Symmetry group
	triangular bipyramid	6	9	5	2 × 33 3 × 34	D3h, [3,2]
	pentagonal bipyramid	10	15	7	5 × 34 2 × 35	D5h, [5,2]
	snub disphenoid	12	18	8	4 × 34 4 × 35	D2d, [2,2]
	triaugmented triangular prism	14	21	9	3 × 34 6 × 35	D3h, [3,2]
	gyroelongated square bipyramid	16	24	10	2 × 34 8 × 35	D4d, [4,2]

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In the 6-faced deltahedron, some vertices have degree 3 and some degree 4. In the 10-, 12-, 14-, and 16-faced deltahedra, some vertices have degree 4 and some degree 5. These five irregular deltahedra belong to the class of Johnson solids: convex polyhedra with regular polygons for faces.

Deltahedra retain their shape even if the edges are free to rotate around their vertices so that the angles between edges are fluid. Not all polyhedra have this property: for example, if some of the angles of a cube are relaxed, the cube can be deformed into a non-right square prism.

There is no 18-faced convex deltahedron.^[2] However, the edge-contracted icosahedron gives an example of an octadecahedron that can either be made convex with 18 irregular triangular faces, or made with equilateral triangles that include two coplanar sets of three triangles.

There are infinitely many cases with coplanar triangles, allowing for sections of the infinite triangular tilings. If the sets of coplanar triangles are considered a single face, a smaller set of faces, edges, and vertices can be counted. The coplanar triangular faces can be merged into rhombic, trapezoidal, hexagonal, or other equilateral polygon faces. Each face must be a convex polyiamond such as , , , , , , and , ...^[3]

Some smaller examples include:

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Coplanar deltahedra

Image	Name	Faces	Edges	Vertices	Vertex configurations	Symmetry group
	Augmented octahedron Augmentation 1 tet + 1 oct	10	15	7	1 × 33 3 × 34 3 × 35 0 × 36	C3v, [3]
		4 3	12
	Trigonal trapezohedron Augmentation 2 tets + 1 oct	12	18	8	2 × 33 0 × 34 6 × 35 0 × 36	C3v, [3]
		6	12
	Augmentation 2 tets + 1 oct	12	18	8	2 × 33 1 × 34 4 × 35 1 × 36	C2v, [2]
		2 2 2	11	7
	Triangular frustum Augmentation 3 tets + 1 oct	14	21	9	3 × 33 0 × 34 3 × 35 3 × 36	C3v, [3]
		1 3 1	9	6
	Elongated octahedron Augmentation 2 tets + 2 octs	16	24	10	0 × 33 4 × 34 4 × 35 2 × 36	D2h, [2,2]
		4 4	12	6
	Tetrahedron Augmentation 4 tets + 1 oct	16	24	10	4 × 33 0 × 34 0 × 35 6 × 36	Td, [3,3]
		4	6	4
	Augmentation 3 tets + 2 octs	18	27	11	1 × 33 2 × 34 5 × 35 3 × 36	D2h, [2,2]
		2 1 2 2	14	9
	Edge-contracted icosahedron	18	27	11	0 × 33 2 × 34 8 × 35 1 × 36	C2v, [2]
		12 2	22	10
	Triangular bifrustum Augmentation 6 tets + 2 octs	20	30	12	0 × 33 3 × 34 6 × 35 3 × 36	D3h, [3,2]
		2 6	15	9
	triangular cupola Augmentation 4 tets + 3 octs	22	33	13	0 × 33 3 × 34 6 × 35 4 × 36	C3v, [3]
		3 3 1 1	15	9
	Triangular bipyramid Augmentation 8 tets + 2 octs	24	36	14	2 × 33 3 × 34 0 × 35 9 × 36	D3h, [3]
		6	9	5
	Hexagonal antiprism	24	36	14	0 × 33 0 × 34 12 × 35 2 × 36	D6d, [12,2+]
		12 2	24	12
	Truncated tetrahedron Augmentation 6 tets + 4 octs	28	42	16	0 × 33 0 × 34 12 × 35 4 × 36	Td, [3,3]
		4 4	18	12
	Tetrakis cuboctahedron Octahedron Augmentation 8 tets + 6 octs	32	48	18	0 × 33 12 × 34 0 × 35 6 × 36	Oh, [4,3]
		8	12	6

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There are an infinite number of nonconvex forms.

Some examples of face-intersecting deltahedra:

• Great icosahedron - a Kepler-Poinsot solid, with 20 intersecting triangles

Other nonconvex deltahedra can be generated by adding equilateral pyramids to the faces of all 5 Platonic solids:

Other augmentations of the tetrahedron include:

Also by adding inverted pyramids to faces:

• Excavated dodecahedron

• Simplicial polytope - polytopes with all simplex facets