"This is the general form; it is bounded by sixteen scalene triangles, and all the indices are unequal." -The Encyclopedia Britannica 1910

Ditetragonal Bipyramid

"This is the general form; it is bounded by sixteen scalene triangles, and all the indices are unequal."…

"The ditetragonal pyramid is a form composed of sixteen isoceles trianglular faces, each of which intersects all three of the crystallographic axes, cutting the two horizontal axes at different lengths." — Ford, 1912

Ditetragonal pyramid

"The ditetragonal pyramid is a form composed of sixteen isoceles trianglular faces, each of which intersects…

Illustration showing a ditetragonal pyramid.

Ditetragonal Pyramid

Illustration showing a ditetragonal pyramid.

This form shows a very complex combination of thirteen tetragonal forms occuring on the mineral Vesuvianite: the prism of the first order, (d); prism of the second order, (M); basal pinacoid, (s); three pyramids of the first order, (c), (b), and (u); the ditetragonal prism (f); and the four ditetragonal pyramids (z), (x), (e), and (a).

Vesuvianite

This form shows a very complex combination of thirteen tetragonal forms occuring on the mineral Vesuvianite:…