Why's it also called a snub cuboctahedron? Professor M. Fiendish 04:37, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
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With an alternative construction, you take a cuboctahedron, cut all the edges, and alternate vertices, you can twist the 6 square and 8 triangular faces until gaps remain that can be filled by pairs of triangles, like shown in these images (swapping blue and yellow triangle colors in the second image): Tom Ruen (talk) 04:46, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
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