A Research for a Division of Regular Polyhedron by Rhombic Dodecahedron

Abstract：A space-filling polyhedron is a polyhedron which ＇tile＇ space, analogous to the way of certain polygons tiled the plane. The cube is the unique space-filling platonic solid. If we make line connections the center with the vertices in the certain cube, the cube is divided into six pyramids. And if we glued six pyramids to the faces of the cube, we obtain a ＇rhombic dodecahedron＇. Since cubes are packing a space, rhombic dodecahedra are also space-filling polyhedra and a rhombic dodecahedron is divided into two regular tetrahcdra and one regular octahedron. In this study, we present how rhombic dodecahedron can be split into tetrahedra and octahedron. In this process, we can research a variety of divisions of regular polyhedron.