6-cubic honeycomb | |
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Type | Regular 6-honeycomb Uniform 6-honeycomb |
Family | Hypercube honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {4,34,4} {4,33,31,1} |
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams | |
6-face type | {4,34} |
5-face type | {4,33} |
4-face type | {4,3,3} |
Cell type | {4,3} |
Face type | {4} |
Face figure | {4,3} (octahedron) |
Edge figure | 8 {4,3,3} (16-cell) |
Vertex figure | 64 {4,34} (6-orthoplex) |
Coxeter group | , [4,34,4] , [4,33,31,1] |
Dual | self-dual |
Properties | vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive, cell-transitive |
The 6-cubic honeycomb or hexeractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 6-space.
It is analogous to the square tiling of the plane and to the cubic honeycomb of 3-space.
There are many different Wythoff constructions of this honeycomb. The most symmetric form is regular, with Schläfli symbol {4,34,4}. Another form has two alternating 6-cube facets (like a checkerboard) with Schläfli symbol {4,33,31,1}. The lowest symmetry Wythoff construction has 64 types of facets around each vertex and a prismatic product Schläfli symbol {∞}(6).
The [4,34,4], , Coxeter group generates 127 permutations of uniform tessellations, 71 with unique symmetry and 70 with unique geometry. The expanded 6-cubic honeycomb is geometrically identical to the 6-cubic honeycomb.
The 6-cubic honeycomb can be alternated into the 6-demicubic honeycomb, replacing the 6-cubes with 6-demicubes, and the alternated gaps are filled by 6-orthoplex facets.
A trirectified 6-cubic honeycomb, , contains all birectified 6-orthoplex facets and is the Voronoi tessellation of the D6* lattice. Facets can be identically colored from a doubled ×2, [4,34,4] symmetry, alternately colored from , [4,34,4] symmetry, three colors from , [4,33,31,1] symmetry, and 4 colors from , [31,1,3,3,31,1] symmetry.
In geometry, a convex uniform honeycomb is a uniform tessellation which fills three-dimensional Euclidean space with non-overlapping convex uniform polyhedral cells.
The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a regular octahedron. It is a self-dual tessellation with Schläfli symbol {4,3,4}. John Horton Conway called this honeycomb a cubille.
The tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb, alternated cubic honeycomb is a quasiregular space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 3-space. It is composed of alternating regular octahedra and tetrahedra in a ratio of 1:2.
In eight-dimensional geometry, an eight-dimensional polytope or 8-polytope is a polytope contained by 7-polytope facets. Each 6-polytope ridge being shared by exactly two 7-polytope facets.
In seven-dimensional geometry, a 7-polytope is a polytope contained by 6-polytope facets. Each 5-polytope ridge being shared by exactly two 6-polytope facets.
In nine-dimensional geometry, a nine-dimensional polytope or 9-polytope is a polytope contained by 8-polytope facets. Each 7-polytope ridge being shared by exactly two 8-polytope facets.
In six-dimensional geometry, a uniform 6-polytope is a six-dimensional uniform polytope. A uniform polypeton is vertex-transitive, and all facets are uniform 5-polytopes.
In four-dimensional euclidean geometry, the tesseractic honeycomb is one of the three regular space-filling tessellations, represented by Schläfli symbol {4,3,3,4}, and consisting of a packing of tesseracts (4-hypercubes).
In four-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the 16-cell honeycomb is one of the three regular space-filling tessellations, represented by Schläfli symbol {3,3,4,3}, and constructed by a 4-dimensional packing of 16-cell facets, three around every face.
In geometry, the 5-cubic honeycomb or penteractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 5-space. Four 5-cubes meet at each cubic cell, and it is more explicitly called an order-4 penteractic honeycomb.
The 5-demicube honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 5-space. It is constructed as an alternation of the regular 5-cube honeycomb.
In geometry, an 8-orthoplex or 8-cross polytope is a regular 8-polytope with 16 vertices, 112 edges, 448 triangle faces, 1120 tetrahedron cells, 1792 5-cells 4-faces, 1792 5-faces, 1024 6-faces, and 256 7-faces.
In geometry, a hypercubic honeycomb is a family of regular honeycombs (tessellations) in n-dimensional spaces with the Schläfli symbols {4,3...3,4} and containing the symmetry of Coxeter group Rn for n ≥ 3.
The 6-demicubic honeycomb or demihexeractic honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 6-space. It is constructed as an alternation of the regular 6-cube honeycomb.
The 7-cubic honeycomb or hepteractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 7-space.
In geometry, the 8-cubic honeycomb or octeractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 8-space.
The 8-demicubic honeycomb, or demiocteractic honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 8-space. It is constructed as an alternation of the regular 8-cubic honeycomb.
In geometry, a uniform 5-polytope is a five-dimensional uniform polytope. By definition, a uniform 5-polytope is vertex-transitive and constructed from uniform 4-polytope facets.
In ten-dimensional geometry, a 10-polytope is a 10-dimensional polytope whose boundary consists of 9-polytope facets, exactly two such facets meeting at each 8-polytope ridge.
In geometry, the 222 honeycomb is a uniform tessellation of the six-dimensional Euclidean space. It can be represented by the Schläfli symbol {3,3,32,2}. It is constructed from 221 facets and has a 122 vertex figure, with 54 221 polytopes around every vertex.
Space | Family | / / | ||||
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E2 | Uniform tiling | 0[3] | δ3 | hδ3 | qδ3 | Hexagonal |
E3 | Uniform convex honeycomb | 0[4] | δ4 | hδ4 | qδ4 | |
E4 | Uniform 4-honeycomb | 0[5] | δ5 | hδ5 | qδ5 | 24-cell honeycomb |
E5 | Uniform 5-honeycomb | 0[6] | δ6 | hδ6 | qδ6 | |
E6 | Uniform 6-honeycomb | 0[7] | δ7 | hδ7 | qδ7 | 222 |
E7 | Uniform 7-honeycomb | 0[8] | δ8 | hδ8 | qδ8 | 133 • 331 |
E8 | Uniform 8-honeycomb | 0[9] | δ9 | hδ9 | qδ9 | 152 • 251 • 521 |
E9 | Uniform 9-honeycomb | 0[10] | δ10 | hδ10 | qδ10 | |
E10 | Uniform 10-honeycomb | 0[11] | δ11 | hδ11 | qδ11 | |
En-1 | Uniform (n-1)-honeycomb | 0[n] | δn | hδn | qδn | 1k2 • 2k1 • k21 |