Fractal Cube:
Some Animated Intermediate Polyhedra

Click on the drawings to see the animations. The latest QuickTime Player can be downloaded from Apple's website www.apple.com/quicktime. Some animations show solids where facial tetrahedrons have been "inverted", i.e., these tetrahedrons are placed on the inner side of the surface pointing inward into the solid (and not pointing outward).

 

start tetrahedraon

 

first stellation: "stella octangula"
(facial tetrahedrons pointing outward)

 

"inverted" stella octangula
(facial tetrahedrons pointing inward)

 

second stellation

 

second stellation, some tetrahedra inverted and removed

 

second stellation and inverted tetrahedra