24-cell honeycomb honeycomb
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24-cell honeycomb honeycomb | |
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Type | Hyperbolic regular honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {3,4,3,3,3} |
Coxeter diagram | = |
5-faces | {3,4,3,3} |
4-faces | {3,4,3} |
Cells | {3,4} |
Faces | {3} |
Cell figure | {3} |
Face figure | {3,3} |
Edge figure | {3,3,3} |
Vertex figure | {4,3,3,3} |
Dual | 5-orthoplex honeycomb |
Coxeter group | U5, [3,3,3,4,3] |
Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 5-space, the 24-cell honeycomb honeycomb is one of five paracompact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs). It is called paracompact because it has infinite facets, whose vertices exist on 4-horospheres and converge to a single ideal point at infinity. With Schläfli symbol {3,4,3,3,3}, it has three 24-cell honeycombs around each cell. It is dual to the 5-orthoplex honeycomb.
Related honeycombs
[edit]It is related to the regular Euclidean 4-space 24-cell honeycomb, {3,4,3,3}, and the hyperbolic 5-space order-4 24-cell honeycomb honeycomb.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. ISBN 0-486-61480-8. (Tables I and II: Regular polytopes and honeycombs, pp. 294–296)
- Coxeter, The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999 ISBN 0-486-40919-8 (Chapter 10: Regular honeycombs in hyperbolic space, Summary tables II, III, IV, V, p212-213)