Pentagrammic-order 600-cell honeycomb
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Pentagrammic-order 600-cell honeycomb | |
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Type | Hyperbolic regular honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {3,3,5,5/2} |
Coxeter diagram | |
4-faces | {3,3,5} |
Cells | {3,3} |
Faces | {3} |
Face figure | {5/2} |
Edge figure | {5,5/2} |
Vertex figure | {3,5,5/2} |
Dual | Small stellated 120-cell honeycomb |
Coxeter group | H4, [5,3,3,3] |
Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 4-space, the pentagrammic-order 600-cell honeycomb is one of four regular star-honeycombs. With Schläfli symbol {3,3,5,5/2}, it has five 600-cells around each face in a pentagrammic arrangement. It is dual to the small stellated 120-cell honeycomb. It can be considered the higher-dimensional analogue of the 4-dimensional icosahedral 120-cell and the 3-dimensional great dodecahedron. It is related to the order-5 icosahedral 120-cell honeycomb and great 120-cell honeycomb: the icosahedral 120-cells and great 120-cells in each honeycomb are replaced by the 600-cells that are their convex hulls, thus forming the pentagrammic-order 600-cell honeycomb.
This honeycomb can also be constructed by taking the order-5 5-cell honeycomb and replacing clusters of 600 5-cells meeting at a vertex with 600-cells. Each 5-cell belongs to five such clusters, and thus the pentagrammic-order 600-cell honeycomb has density 5.
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)