Editing Rhombicuboctahedron (section)

== Appearances ==
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 |footer = Many rhombicuboctahedral objects such as [[National Library of Belarus|National Library in Minsk]] in the commemorative image (top left) and [[Rubik's cube]] variation (top right). The rhombicuboctahedron may also appear in art, as in ''[[Portrait of Luca Pacioli]]'' (bottom left) and [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s 1509 illustration in ''[[Divina proportione]]'' (bottom right).}}
The rhombicuboctahedron sometimes appears in architecture, with an example being the building of the [[National Library of Belarus|National Library located at Minsk]].<ref>{{multiref
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}}</ref> The Wilson House by [[Bruce Goff]] is another example of a rhombicuboctahedral building, although its module was depicted as a truncated cube in which the edges are all cut off. It was built during the [[Second World War]] and [[Operation Breakthrough (housing program)|Operation Breakthrough]] in the 1960s.{{sfnp|Gabriel|1997|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FkM0945nFV8C&pg=PA105 105&ndash;109]}}

The rhombicuboctahedron may also be found in toys. For example, if the lines along which a [[Rubik's Cube]] can be turned are projected onto a sphere, they are [[topologically]] identical to a rhombicuboctahedron's edges. Variants using the Rubik's Cube mechanism have been produced, which closely resemble the rhombicuboctahedron. During the Rubik's Cube craze of the 1980s, at least two twisty puzzles sold had the form of a rhombicuboctahedron (the mechanism was similar to that of a Rubik's Cube)<ref name="puzzleball">{{cite web |url=http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=5070 |title=Soviet Puzzle Ball |website=TwistyPuzzles.com |access-date=23 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="diamondstyle">{{cite web |url=https://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/diamstyl.htm |title=Diamond Style Puzzler |website=Jaap's Puzzle Page |access-date=31 May 2017}}</ref> Another example may be found in dice from [[Corfe Castle]], each of whose square faces have marks of pairs of letters and [[Pip (counting)|pips]].{{sfnp|Cromwell|1997|p=[https://archive.org/details/polyhedra0000crom/page/4/mode/1up 4&ndash;5]}}

The rhombicuboctahedron may also appear in art. An example is the 1495 ''[[Portrait of Luca Pacioli]]'', traditionally attributed to [[Jacopo de' Barbari]], which includes a glass rhombicuboctahedron half-filled with water, which may have been painted by [[Leonardo da Vinci]].<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.2307/3619717 |title=The Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli |journal=[[The Mathematical Gazette]] |volume=77 |issue=479 |page=143 |year=1993 |last1=MacKinnon |first1=Nick|jstor=3619717 |s2cid=195006163 }}</ref>
The first printed version of the rhombicuboctahedron was by Leonardo da Vinci and appeared in [[Pacioli]]'s ''[[Divina proportione]]'' (1509).

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