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Semiregular polytope
Gosset's figures
3D honeycombs
Simple tetroctahedric
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Complex tetroctahedric
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4D polytopes
Tetroctahedric Octicosahedric Tetricosahedric
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Ingeometry, by Thorold Gosset's definition a semiregular polytope is
usually taken to be a polytope that is vertex-uniform and has all
its facets being regular polytopes. E.L. Elte compiled a longer list in 1912
as The Semiregular Polytopes of the Hyperspaces which included a wider
definition.
Contents [hide]
1 Gosset's list
1.1 Beyond Gosset's list
2 See also
3 References
Gosset's list [edit]
In three-dimensional space and below, the terms semiregular
polytope and uniform polytope have identical meanings, because all
uniform polygons must be regular. However, since not all uniform
polyhedra are regular, the number of semiregular polytopes in
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dimensions higher than three is much smaller than the number of uniform
polytopes in the same number of dimensions.
The three convex semiregular polychora (4-polytopes) are the rectified 5-
cell,snub 24-cell and rectified 600-cell. The only semiregular polytopes in
higher dimensions are the k
21
polytopes, where the rectified 5-cell is the
special case of k= 0.
Semiregular polytopes can be extended to semiregular honeycombs. The
semiregular Euclidean honeycombs are the tetrahedral-octahedral
honeycomb(3D), gyrated alternated cubic honeycomb (3D) and
the 5
21
honeycomb (8D).
Semiregular figures Gosset enumerated: (his names in parentheses)
Convex uniform honeycombs, two 3D honeycombs:
1. Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb (Simple tetroctahedric
check), (Also quasiregular polytope)
2. Gyrated alternated cubic honeycomb (Complex tetroctahedric
check),
Uniform polychora, three 4-polytopes:
1. Rectified 5-cell (Tetroctahedric),
2. Rectified 600-cell (Octicosahedric),
3. Snub 24-cell (Tetricosahedric),
Snub 24-cell honeycomb,
Semiregular E-polytopes, four polytopes, and one honeycomb:
1. 5-demicube (5-ic semi-regular), a 5-polytope,
2. 2
21
polytope (6-ic semi-regular), a 6-polytope,
3. 3
21
polytope (7-ic semi-regular), a 7-polytope,
4. 4
21
polytope (8-ic semi-regular), an 8-polytope,
5. 5
21
honeycomb (9-ic check) (8D Euclidean honeycomb),
Beyond Gosset's list [edit]
There are also hyperbolic uniform honeycombs composed of only regular
cells, including:
Hyperbolic uniform honeycombs, 3D honeycombs:
1. Alternated order-5 cubic honeycomb,
(Alsoquasiregular polytope)
2. Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb,
3. Tetrahedron-icosahedron honeycomb,
Paracompact uniform honeycombs, 3D honeycombs, which include
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uniform tilings as cells:
1. Rectified order-6 tetrahedral honeycomb,
2. Rectified square tiling honeycomb,
3. Alternated order-6 cubic honeycomb, (Also
quasiregular)
4. Alternated hexagonal tiling honeycomb,
5. Alternated square tiling honeycomb, (Also
quasiregular)
6. Cubic-square tiling honeycomb,
7. Tetrahedral-triangular tiling honeycomb,
9D hyperbolic paracompact honeycomb:
1. 6
21
honeycomb (10-ic check),
See also [edit]
Semiregular polyhedron
References [edit]
Coxeter, H. S. M. (1973). Regular Polytopes (3rd ed.). New York:
Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-61480-8.
Gosset, Thorold (1900). "On the regular and semi-regular figures in
space of ndimensions". Messenger of Mathematics 29: 4348.
Elte, E. L. (1912). The Semiregular Polytopes of the Hyperspaces.
Groningen: University of Groningen. ISBN 1-4181-7968-X.
Categories: Polytopes