Is a cube is more pointy than an octahedron?
Yes
63.6%
No
36.4%
Poll ended at .

(Assuming we’re talking about the regular platonic shapes. I’ll accept no “look at this dagger I made with X sides!”.

I have my own answer and reasoning but I’m curious what others think).

Okay so I did some checking and even my assumption was wrong.

When you slice the points off of the shapes (at same distance from a vertex), the octahedron has less surface area, less volume, is less flat. However you want to measure it the octahedron point is more pointy. The cube's point is simply more blunt.

HOWEVER, the cube has more points (vertices) and is therefore more pointy.

@Sophie Hmmm... how are you measuring the length? Along an edge? Would you get a different answer if you measured distance toward the centre of mass? I feel like the cube must be pointier because it subtends a smaller solid angle from one of its vertices.
@nettles that was my guess but those slices are made an equal distance toward the CoM - the height of the resulting pyramids is identical.
@Sophie Whoa! That's pretty crazy!