The radius of the midsphere of a polyhedron,
also called the interradius. Let
be a point on the original polyhedron and
the corresponding point
on the dual. Then because
and
are inverse points, the radii
,
, and
satisfy
(1)
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The above figure shows a plane section of a midsphere.
Let be the inradius
the dual polyhedron,
circumradius of the original polyhedron, and
the side length of the original polyhedron. For a regular
polyhedron with Schläfli symbol
, the dual
polyhedron is
.
Then
(2)
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(3)
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(4)
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Furthermore, let
be the angle subtended by the polyhedron
edge of an Archimedean solid. Then
(5)
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(6)
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(7)
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so
(8)
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(Cundy and Rollett 1989).
For a Platonic or Archimedean solid, the midradius
of the solid and dual can be expressed in terms of the circumradius
of the solid and inradius
of the dual gives
(9)
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(10)
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and these radii obey
(11)
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