Earlier this week I was challenged to come up with a mechanism that would illustrate the duality of the cube and the octahedron. I got as far as making this animation before discovering that I was scooped three months ago! The paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094114X25002769) by Liao, Kiper, and Krishnan has lots of other interesting mechanisms, including one showing duality between the cuboctahedron and the rhombic dodecahedron.
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