In geometry, a pentagonal icositetrahedron or pentagonal icosikaitetrahedron^[1] is a Catalan solid which is the dual of the snub cube. In crystallography it is also called a gyroid.^[2][3]

Pentagonal icositetrahedron
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Type	Catalan
Conway notation	gC
Coxeter diagram
Face polygon	irregular pentagon
Faces	24
Edges	60
Vertices	38 = 6 + 8 + 24
Face configuration	V3.3.3.3.4
Dihedral angle	136° 18' 33'
Symmetry group	O, ½BC3, [4,3]+, 432
Dual polyhedron	snub cube
Properties	convex, face-transitive, chiral
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It has two distinct forms, which are mirror images (or "enantiomorphs") of each other.

The pentagonal icositetrahedron can be constructed from a snub cube without taking the dual. Square pyramids are added to the six square faces of the snub cube, and triangular pyramids are added to the eight triangular faces that do not share an edge with a square. The pyramid heights are adjusted to make them coplanar with the other 24 triangular faces of the snub cube. The result is the pentagonal icositetrahedron.

Denote the tribonacci constant by ${\displaystyle t\approx 1.839\,286\,755\,21}$. (See snub cube for a geometric explanation of the tribonacci constant.) Then Cartesian coordinates for the 38 vertices of a pentagonal icositetrahedron centered at the origin, are as follows:

• the 12 even permutations of (±1, ±(2t+1), ±t²) with an even number of minus signs
• the 12 odd permutations of (±1, ±(2t+1), ±t²) with an odd number of minus signs
• the 6 points (±t³, 0, 0), (0, ±t³, 0) and (0, 0, ±t³)
• the 8 points (±t², ±t², ±t²)

The convex hulls for these vertices^[4] scaled by ${\displaystyle t^{-3}}$ result in a unit circumradius octahedron centered at the origin, a unit cube centered at the origin scaled to ${\displaystyle R\approx 0.9416969935}$, and an irregular chiral snub cube scaled to ${\displaystyle R}$, as visualized in the figure below:

The pentagonal faces have four angles of ${\displaystyle \arccos((1-t)/2)\approx 114.812\,074\,477\,90^{\circ }}$ and one angle of ${\displaystyle \arccos(2-t)\approx 80.751\,702\,088\,39^{\circ }}$. The pentagon has three short edges of unit length each, and two long edges of length ${\displaystyle (t+1)/2\approx 1.419\,643\,377\,607\,08}$. The acute angle is between the two long edges. The dihedral angle equals ${\displaystyle \arccos(-1/(t^{2}-2))\approx 136.309\,232\,892\,32^{\circ }}$.

If its dual snub cube has unit edge length, its surface area and volume are:^[5]

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}A&=3{\sqrt {\frac {22(5t-1)}{4t-3}}}&&\approx 19.299\,94\\V&={\sqrt {\frac {11(t-4)}{2(20t-37)}}}&&\approx 7.4474\end{aligned}}}$

The pentagonal icositetrahedron has three symmetry positions, two centered on vertices, and one on midedge.

This polyhedron is topologically related as a part of sequence of polyhedra and tilings of pentagons with face configurations (V3.3.3.3.n). (The sequence progresses into tilings the hyperbolic plane to any n.) These face-transitive figures have (n32) rotational symmetry.

More information Symmetry n32, Spherical ...

n32 symmetry mutations of snub tilings: 3.3.3.3.n v t e
Symmetry n32	Spherical				Euclidean	Compact hyperbolic		Paracomp.
	232	332	432	532	632	732	832	∞32
Snub figures
Config.	3.3.3.3.2	3.3.3.3.3	3.3.3.3.4	3.3.3.3.5	3.3.3.3.6	3.3.3.3.7	3.3.3.3.8	3.3.3.3.∞
Gyro figures
Config.	V3.3.3.3.2	V3.3.3.3.3	V3.3.3.3.4	V3.3.3.3.5	V3.3.3.3.6	V3.3.3.3.7	V3.3.3.3.8	V3.3.3.3.∞

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The pentagonal icositetrahedron is second in a series of dual snub polyhedra and tilings with face configuration V3.3.4.3.n.

More information Symmetry 4n2, Spherical ...

4n2 symmetry mutations of snub tilings: 3.3.4.3.n v t e
Symmetry 4n2	Spherical		Euclidean	Compact hyperbolic				Paracomp.
	242	342	442	542	642	742	842	∞42
Snub figures
Config.	3.3.4.3.2	3.3.4.3.3	3.3.4.3.4	3.3.4.3.5	3.3.4.3.6	3.3.4.3.7	3.3.4.3.8	3.3.4.3.∞
Gyro figures
Config.	V3.3.4.3.2	V3.3.4.3.3	V3.3.4.3.4	V3.3.4.3.5	V3.3.4.3.6	V3.3.4.3.7	V3.3.4.3.8	V3.3.4.3.∞

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The pentagonal icositetrahedron is one of a family of duals to the uniform polyhedra related to the cube and regular octahedron.

More information Uniform octahedral polyhedra, Symmetry: [4,3], (*432) ...

Uniform octahedral polyhedra
Symmetry: [4,3], (*432)							[4,3]+ (432)	[1+,4,3] = [3,3] (*332)		[3+,4] (3*2)
{4,3}	t{4,3}	r{4,3} r{31,1}	t{3,4} t{31,1}	{3,4} {31,1}	rr{4,3} s2{3,4}	tr{4,3}	sr{4,3}	h{4,3} {3,3}	h2{4,3} t{3,3}	s{3,4} s{31,1}
		=	=	=				= or	= or	=
Duals to uniform polyhedra
V43	V3.82	V(3.4)2	V4.62	V34	V3.43	V4.6.8	V34.4	V33	V3.62	V35

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