Gosset 1 52 honeycomb
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152 honeycomb
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Type Uniform tessellation
Family 1k2 polytope
Uniform 1 k2 polytope
In geometry, 1k2 polytope is a uniform polytope in n-dimensions constructed from the En Coxeter group. The family was named by Coxeter as 1k2 by its bifurcating Coxeter-Dynkin diagram, with a single ring on the end of the 1-node sequence...

Schläfli symbol {3,35,2}
Coxeter symbol 152
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
In geometry, a Coxeter–Dynkin diagram is a graph with numerically labeled edges representing the spatial relations between a collection of mirrors...

8-face types 142
Gosset 1 42 polytope
In 8-dimensional geometry, the 142 is a uniform 8-polytope, constructed within the symmetry of the E8 group.Coxeter named it 142 by its bifurcating Coxeter-Dynkin diagram, with a single ring on the end of the 1-node sequences....


151
Demiocteract
In geometry, a demiocteract or 8-demicube is a uniform 8-polytope, constructed from the 8-hypercube, octeract, with alternated vertices deleted...

7-face types 132
Gosset 1 32 polytope
In 7-dimensional geometry, 132 is a uniform polytope, constructed from the E7 group.Coxeter named it 132 by its bifurcating Coxeter-Dynkin diagram, with a single ring on the end of one of the 1-node sequences....


141
Demihepteract
In geometry, a demihepteract or 7-demicube is a uniform 7-polytope, constructed from the 7-hypercube with alternated vertices deleted...

6-face types 122
Gosset 1 22 polytope
In 6-dimensional geometry, the 122 polytope is a uniform polytope, constructed from the E6 group. It was first published in E. L. Elte's 1912 listing of semiregular polytopes, named as V72 ....


{31,3,1}
Demihexeract
In geometry, a 6-demicube or demihexteract is a uniform 6-polytope, constructed from a 6-cube with alternate vertices deleted. It is part of a dimensionally infinite family of uniform polytopes called demihypercubes....


{35}
5-face types 121
Demipenteract
In five dimensional geometry, a demipenteract or 5-demicube is a semiregular 5-polytope, constructed from a 5-hypercube with alternated vertices deleted.It was discovered by Thorold Gosset...


{34}
4-face type 111
16-cell
In four dimensional geometry, a 16-cell or hexadecachoron is a regular convex 4-polytope. It is one of the six regular convex 4-polytopes first described by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli in the mid-19th century....


{33}
Cells {32}
Tetrahedron
In geometry, a tetrahedron is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, three of which meet at each vertex. A regular tetrahedron is one in which the four triangles are regular, or "equilateral", and is one of the Platonic solids...

Faces {3}
Triangle
A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides or edges which are line segments. A triangle with vertices A, B, and C is denoted ....

Vertex figure
Vertex figure
In geometry a vertex figure is, broadly speaking, the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.-Definitions - theme and variations:...

birectified 8-simplex:
t2{37}
Coxeter group
Coxeter group
In mathematics, a Coxeter group, named after H.S.M. Coxeter, is an abstract group that admits a formal description in terms of mirror symmetries. Indeed, the finite Coxeter groups are precisely the finite Euclidean reflection groups; the symmetry groups of regular polyhedra are an example...

, [35,2,1]

In geometry
Geometry
Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....

, the 152 honeycomb is a uniform tessellation
Uniform tessellation
In geometry, a uniform tessellation is a vertex-transitive tessellations made from uniform polytope facets. All of its vertices are identical and there is the same combination and arrangement of faces at each vertex....

 of 8-dimensional Euclidean space. It contains 142
Gosset 1 42 polytope
In 8-dimensional geometry, the 142 is a uniform 8-polytope, constructed within the symmetry of the E8 group.Coxeter named it 142 by its bifurcating Coxeter-Dynkin diagram, with a single ring on the end of the 1-node sequences....

 and 151
Demiocteract
In geometry, a demiocteract or 8-demicube is a uniform 8-polytope, constructed from the 8-hypercube, octeract, with alternated vertices deleted...

 facets, in a birectified 8-simplex vertex figure
Vertex figure
In geometry a vertex figure is, broadly speaking, the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.-Definitions - theme and variations:...

. It is the final figure in the 1k2 polytope
Uniform 1 k2 polytope
In geometry, 1k2 polytope is a uniform polytope in n-dimensions constructed from the En Coxeter group. The family was named by Coxeter as 1k2 by its bifurcating Coxeter-Dynkin diagram, with a single ring on the end of the 1-node sequence...

 family.

Construction

It is created by a Wythoff construction
Wythoff construction
In geometry, a Wythoff construction, named after mathematician Willem Abraham Wythoff, is a method for constructing a uniform polyhedron or plane tiling. It is often referred to as Wythoff's kaleidoscopic construction.- Construction process :...

 upon a set of 9 hyperplane
Hyperplane
A hyperplane is a concept in geometry. It is a generalization of the plane into a different number of dimensions.A hyperplane of an n-dimensional space is a flat subset with dimension n − 1...

 mirrors in 8-dimensional space.

The facet information can be extracted from its Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
In geometry, a Coxeter–Dynkin diagram is a graph with numerically labeled edges representing the spatial relations between a collection of mirrors...

.


Removing the node on the end of the 2-length branch leaves the demiocteract
Demiocteract
In geometry, a demiocteract or 8-demicube is a uniform 8-polytope, constructed from the 8-hypercube, octeract, with alternated vertices deleted...

, 151.


Removing the node on the end of the 5-length branch leaves the 142
Gosset 1 42 polytope
In 8-dimensional geometry, the 142 is a uniform 8-polytope, constructed within the symmetry of the E8 group.Coxeter named it 142 by its bifurcating Coxeter-Dynkin diagram, with a single ring on the end of the 1-node sequences....

.


The vertex figure
Vertex figure
In geometry a vertex figure is, broadly speaking, the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.-Definitions - theme and variations:...

 is determined by removing the ringed node and ringing the neighboring node. This makes the birectified 8-simplex, 052.

See also

  • 521 honeycomb
    5 21 honeycomb
    In geometry, the 521 honeycomb is a uniform tessellation of 8-dimensional Euclidean space.This honeycomb was first studied by Gosset who called it a 9-ic semi-regular figure...

  • 251 honeycomb
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