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Compound of 4 Cubes

Known as Bakos' compound, this is a compound of 4 cubes. This model is provided in Great Stella's Polyhedron Library. Its dual is a compound of 4 octahedra.

Here's a surprising way to create this model. Start with the truncated octahedron (shown top left). Change to a view of the stellation and hit the Up-arrow twice to get the stellation shown here (top right). Enter Create Facets Mode and create the two facets shown (top right and bottom left). Use "Poly>Create Faceted Polyhedron" to create the compound of 4 octahedra (bottom right). "Color>Color as a Compound" can be used to render each octahedron in its own color. Then the dual of this model is the 4-cube compound.

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