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Icosahedral 120-cell

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Icosahedral 120-cell

Orthogonal projection
Type Schläfli-Hess polychoron
Cells 120 {3,5}
Faces 1200 {3}
Edges 720
Vertices 120
Vertex figure {5,5/2}
Schläfli symbol {3,5,5/2}
Symmetry group H4, [3,3,5]
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Dual Small stellated 120-cell
Properties --
Orthogonal projection as a wireframe

In geometry, the icosahedral 120-cell is a star polychoron with Schläfli symbol {3,5,5/2}. It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polychora.

It is constructed by 5 icosahedra around each edge in a pentagrammic figure. The vertex figure is a great dodecahedron.

It has the same edge arrangement as the 600-cell, grand 120-cell and great 120-cell, and shares its vertices with each other Schlaffi-Hess Polychoron, besides the Great grand stellated 120-cell, another stellation of the Hecatonicosachoron. File:IcosahedralHecatonicosa.png

References

  • Edmund Hess, (1883) Einleitung in die Lehre von der Kugelteilung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Anwendung auf die Theorie der Gleichflächigen und der gleicheckigen Polyeder [1].
  • H. S. M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. ISBN 0-486-61480-8.
  • John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26, Regular Star-polytopes, pp. 404-408)

See also