In geometry, the bilunabirotunda is a Johnson solid with faces of 8 equilateral triangles, 2 squares, and 4 regular pentagons.
The bilunabirotunda is named from the prefix lune, meaning a figure featuring two triangles adjacent to opposite sides of a square.
Therefore, the faces of a bilunabirotunda possess 8 equilateral triangles, 2 squares, and 4 regular pentagons as it faces.
[1] It is one of the Johnson solids—a convex polyhedron in which all of the faces are regular polygon—enumerated as 91st Johnson solid
[2] It is known as the elementary polyhedron, meaning that it cannot be separated by a plane into two small regular-faced polyhedra.
[3] The surface area of a bilunabirotunda with edge length
and the volume of a bilunabirotunda is:[1]
One way to construct a bilunabirotunda with edge length
is by union of the orbits of the coordinates
under the group's action (of order 8) generated by reflections about coordinate planes.
[4] Reynolds (2004) discusses the bilunabirotunda as a shape that could be used in architecture.
[5] Six bilunabirotundae can be augmented around a cube with pyritohedral symmetry.
B. M. Stewart labeled this six-bilunabirotunda model as 6J91(P4).
[6] Such clusters combine with regular dodecahedra to form a space-filling honeycomb.