Another name for a 3D diamond shape?

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Another name for a 3D diamond shape?

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Hi

Anybody know another name for a 3D diamond shape?

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Found it! octahedron
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Two square based pyramids, stuck base to base. :)

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That's the one!
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Plum wrote:Found it! octahedron
More precisely a regular octahedron, as any 8-sided solid is an octahedron.
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