Heptagonal prism
Appearance
Heptagonal prism | |
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Type | Uniform polyhedron |
Faces | 2 Heptagons 7 squares |
Edges | 21 |
Vertices | 14 |
Vertex configuration | 7.4.4 |
Wythoff symbol | 2 7 | 2 |
Coxeter diagram | |
Symmetry group | D7h, [7,2], (*722), order 28 |
Rotation group | D7, [7,2]+, (722), order 14 |
Dual polyhedron | Heptagonal bipyramid |
Properties | Convex semiregular |
Vertex figure | |
In geometry, the heptagonal prism is the fifth of the infinite set of convex prisms formed by square sides and two regular polygon caps, in this case two heptagons.
Images
The heptagonal prism can also be seen as a tiling on a sphere:
Related polyhedra
Family of uniform n-gonal prisms | |||||||||||||
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Prism name | Digonal prism | (Trigonal) Triangular prism |
(Tetragonal) Square prism |
Pentagonal prism | Hexagonal prism | Heptagonal prism | Octagonal prism | Enneagonal prism | Decagonal prism | Hendecagonal prism | Dodecagonal prism | ... | Apeirogonal prism |
Polyhedron image | ... | ||||||||||||
Spherical tiling image | Plane tiling image | ||||||||||||
Vertex config. | 2.4.4 | 3.4.4 | 4.4.4 | 5.4.4 | 6.4.4 | 7.4.4 | 8.4.4 | 9.4.4 | 10.4.4 | 11.4.4 | 12.4.4 | ... | ∞.4.4 |
Coxeter diagram | ... |