Icosahedral prism

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Icosahedral prism
Type Prismatic uniform 4-polytope
Uniform index59
Schläfli symbol t{2,3,5} or {3,5}×{}
s{3,4}×{}
sr{3,3}×{}
Coxeter-Dynkin CDel node 1.pngCDel 2.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node.png
CDel node h.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 2.pngCDel node 1.png
CDel node h.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 2.pngCDel node 1.png
Cells2 (3.3.3.3.3) Icosahedron.png
20 (3.4.4) Triangular prism.png
Faces30 {4}
40 {3}
Edges72
Vertices24
Vertex figure Snub tetrahedral prism verf.png
pentagonal pyramids
Dual Dodecahedral bipyramid
Symmetry group [5,3,2], order 240
[3+,4,2], order 48
[(3,3)+,2], order 24
Properties convex

In geometry, an icosahedral prism is a convex uniform 4-polytope (four-dimensional polytope). This 4-polytope has 22 polyhedral cells: 2 icosahedra connected by 20 triangular prisms. It has 70 faces: 30 squares and 40 triangles. It has 72 edges and 24 vertices.

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It can be constructed by creating two coinciding icosahedra in 3-space, and translating each copy in opposite perpendicular directions in 4-space until their separation equals their edge length.

It is one of 18 convex uniform polyhedral prisms created by using uniform prisms to connect pairs of parallel Platonic solids or Archimedean solids.

Icosahedral prism net.png
Net
Icosahedral prism.png
Schlegel diagram
Only one icosahedral cell shown
Icosahedral prism-ortho.png
Orthographic projection

Alternate names

  1. Icosahedral dyadic prism Norman W. Johnson
  2. Ipe for icosahedral prism/hyperprism (Jonathan Bowers)
  3. Snub tetrahedral prism/hyperprism

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