Order-5 5-cell honeycomb
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Order-5 5-cell honeycomb | |
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Type | Hyperbolic regular honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {3,3,3,5} |
Coxeter diagram | |
4-faces | {3,3,3} |
Cells | {3,3} |
Faces | {3} |
Face figure | {5} |
Edge figure | {5,3} |
Vertex figure | {3,3,5} |
Dual | 120-cell honeycomb |
Coxeter group | H4, [5,3,3,3] |
Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 4-space, the Order-5 5-cell honeycomb is one of five compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs). With Schläfli symbol {3,3,3,5}, it has five 5-cells around each edge. Its dual is the 120-cell honeycomb, {5,3,3,3}.
See also
References
- Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. ISBN 0-486-61480-8. (Tables I and II: Regular polytopes and honeycombs, pp. 294–296)
- Coxeter, The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999 ISBN 0-486-40919-8 (Chapter 10: Regular honeycombs in hyperbolic space, Summary tables II,III,IV,V, p212-213)