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Problem 60978. Mesh the octahedron

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Problem statement
An octahedron is a regular polyhedron with 6 vertices and 8 triangular faces. It is also one of the five well known platonic solids.
A triangulated mesh -or a triangulation- is simply a N x 3 matrix of positive integers where each row contains the vertex indices of a triangle, and where N is the number of triangles.
Your task here is to mesh this octahedron. To do so, you will list the triangles/rows in a matrix of triangles, T. You will also be careful to always keep the triangles / faces coherently / consistently oriented (all clockwise or all counterclockwise : triangles [1, 2, 3] and [3, 2, 1] are distinct).
On the other hand [1, 2, 3], [2, 3, 1] and [3, 1, 2] are one same unique triangle.
The row order of the triangles in the list doesn't matter.
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Triangles orientation not taken into account anymore, because of too many possible cases to check in the tests (!)
Example
The first triangle (X > 0, Y > 0, and Z > 0) here can be [1, 2, 5] if counterclockwise oriented (normals are outward oriented).
Forbidden functions / expressions
  • regexp
  • assignin
  • str2num
  • echo
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80.0% Correct | 20.0% Incorrect
Last Solution submitted on Aug 08, 2025

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