In a companion paper the DICTO Ogdoecontahedron (OG) sits in every octahedron of the octet truss, its eight joint hexagons on the eight faces. DICTO proposed that it can also live in the gyrated octet, the tetrahedral–octahedral honeycomb stacked A B A B, in which octahedron meets octahedron and tetrahedron meets tetrahedron across every layer. It can: the OGs on both sides of a layer meet on the same joint hexagon, but each is the mirror image of the other, and since the OG has no such mirror the layers are twin boundaries; exactly, the twin is the OG turned 60° about the joint three-fold axis, the spinel law of crystallography. Cutting each octahedron into the OG and eight chiral caps, and keeping the tetrahedra whole, gives one exact kit for the octet, the gyrated octet and every stacking between; at a twin layer a left and a right cap join into a twin cap and two tetrahedra into a triangular bipyramid. The facing-star middle piece of the octet fails at twin layers, and a mirror middle piece of volume (424 − 88√5)/4617 takes its place; with one boundary cap and one boundary tetrahedron the octet's Penrose-core kit then fills the gyrated octet and a single twin layer exactly, and with the same pieces any stacking; its Penrose cores lie only on the edges within the layers. The trait runs in the family: the OCD Stella twins in the same way, meeting its twin on a whole joint triangle; the golden envelope does not fit as it is, but cut flat at two opposite three-fold corners it becomes a solid of its own, the DICTO Belted Triacontahedron (DBT), which fills the gyrated octet's octahedra pole to pole without overlap, 55.02% of space. Cut the same way at all eight of the corners that point through the octahedron's faces, it becomes the DICTO Octahedrally Truncated Triacontahedron (DICTO OTT), with the OG's own symmetry, which twins like the OG, lies inside its octahedron and so fits every stacking, 52.89% of space. For each, the rest of space is filled by one more shape (two hands of one in the octet): the DICTO Fill sets. The DICTO Jewel's packing, framed by cubes, does not continue across a twin layer. All claims are exact in ℚ(√5) except where marked float. Companion to The DICTO Ogdoecontahedron on the Octet Truss (#37), DICTO DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23457016. Finding #37a on dictospheres.com. Scripts, exact checks and data: https://github.com/DICTOR-Master/kaleidohedra/tree/56fc236/studies/2026-10-19-og-gyrated-octet, also attached here (og-gyrated-octet-study-56fc236.zip).
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