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Alternation (geometry)

Index Alternation (geometry)

In geometry, an alternation or partial truncation, is an operation on a polygon, polyhedron, tiling, or higher dimensional polytope that removes alternate vertices. [1]

51 relations: Catalan solid, Chamfer (geometry), Chamfered dodecahedron, Conway polyhedron notation, Cube, Cubic honeycomb, Demihypercube, Digon, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Honeycomb (geometry), Hypercube, Isogonal figure, Norman Johnson (mathematician), Polygon, Polyhedron, Polytope, Polytope compound, Quasiregular polyhedron, Rectification (geometry), Regular Polytopes (book), Rhombic dodecahedron, Rhombic triacontahedron, Small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron, Snub 24-cell, Snub 24-cell honeycomb, Snub cube, Snub square antiprism, Square antiprism, Star polyhedron, Stellated octahedron, Tessellation, Tesseract, Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb, Tetrahedron, Triakis icosahedron, Triakis octahedron, Triakis tetrahedron, Triangular prismatic honeycomb, Truncated 24-cell honeycomb, Truncated 24-cells, Truncated cuboctahedron, Truncated triakis tetrahedron, Truncation (geometry), Vertex configuration, Wythoff construction, 16-cell, 4-polytope, 5-cube, 5-demicube, 6-cube, ..., 6-demicube. Expand index (1 more) »

Catalan solid

In mathematics, a Catalan solid, or Archimedean dual, is a dual polyhedron to an Archimedean solid.

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Chamfer (geometry)

In geometry, chamfering or edge-truncation is a topological operator that modifies one polyhedron into another.

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Chamfered dodecahedron

The chamfered dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 80 vertices, 120 edges, and 42 faces: 30 hexagons and 12 pentagons.

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Conway polyhedron notation

In geometry, Conway polyhedron notation, invented by John Horton Conway and promoted by George W. Hart, is used to describe polyhedra based on a seed polyhedron modified by various prefix operations.

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Cube

In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex.

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Cubic honeycomb

The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space, made up of cubic cells.

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Demihypercube

In geometry, demihypercubes (also called n-demicubes, n-hemicubes, and half measure polytopes) are a class of n-polytopes constructed from alternation of an n-hypercube, labeled as hγn for being half of the hypercube family, γn.

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Digon

In geometry, a digon is a polygon with two sides (edges) and two vertices.

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Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter

Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, FRS, FRSC, (February 9, 1907 – March 31, 2003) was a British-born Canadian geometer.

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Honeycomb (geometry)

In geometry, a honeycomb is a space filling or close packing of polyhedral or higher-dimensional cells, so that there are no gaps.

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Hypercube

In geometry, a hypercube is an ''n''-dimensional analogue of a square and a cube.

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Isogonal figure

In geometry, a polytope (a polygon, polyhedron or tiling, for example) is isogonal or vertex-transitive if all its vertices are equivalent under the symmetries of the figure.

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Norman Johnson (mathematician)

Norman Woodason Johnson (November 12, 1930 – July 13, 2017) was a mathematician, previously at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

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Polygon

In elementary geometry, a polygon is a plane figure that is bounded by a finite chain of straight line segments closing in a loop to form a closed polygonal chain or circuit.

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Polyhedron

In geometry, a polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons) is a solid in three dimensions with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices.

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Polytope

In elementary geometry, a polytope is a geometric object with "flat" sides.

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Polytope compound

A polyhedral compound is a figure that is composed of several polyhedra sharing a common centre.

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Quasiregular polyhedron

In geometry, a quasiregular polyhedron is a semiregular polyhedron that has exactly two kinds of regular faces, which alternate around each vertex.

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Rectification (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, rectification or complete-truncation is the process of truncating a polytope by marking the midpoints of all its edges, and cutting off its vertices at those points.

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Regular Polytopes (book)

Regular Polytopes is a mathematical geometry book written by Canadian mathematician Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.

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Rhombic dodecahedron

In geometry, the rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 12 congruent rhombic faces.

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Rhombic triacontahedron

In geometry, the rhombic triacontahedron, sometimes simply called the triacontahedron as it is the most common thirty-faced polyhedron, is a convex polyhedron with 30 rhombic faces.

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Small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron

In geometry, the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U30.

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Snub 24-cell

In geometry, the snub 24-cell or snub disicositetrachoron is a convex uniform 4-polytope composed of 120 regular tetrahedral and 24 icosahedral cells.

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Snub 24-cell honeycomb

In four-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the snub 24-cell honeycomb, or snub icositetrachoric honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) by snub 24-cells, 16-cells, and 5-cells.

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Snub cube

In geometry, the snub cube, or snub cuboctahedron, is an Archimedean solid with 38 faces: 6 squares and 32 equilateral triangles.

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Snub square antiprism

In geometry, the snub square antiprism is one of the Johnson solids (J85).

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Square antiprism

In geometry, the square antiprism is the second in an infinite set of antiprisms formed by an even-numbered sequence of triangle sides closed by two polygon caps.

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Star polyhedron

In geometry, a star polyhedron is a polyhedron which has some repetitive quality of nonconvexity giving it a star-like visual quality.

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Stellated octahedron

The stellated octahedron is the only stellation of the octahedron.

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Tessellation

A tessellation of a flat surface is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps.

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Tesseract

In geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube; the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square.

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Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb

The tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb, alternated cubic honeycomb is a quasiregular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space.

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Tetrahedron

In geometry, a tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertex corners.

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Triakis icosahedron

In geometry, the triakis icosahedron (or kisicosahedron) is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid.

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Triakis octahedron

In geometry, a triakis octahedron (or trigonal trisoctahedron or kisoctahedron) is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid.

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Triakis tetrahedron

In geometry, a triakis tetrahedron (or kistetrahedron) is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid.

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Triangular prismatic honeycomb

The triangular prismatic honeycomb or triangular prismatic cellulation is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space.

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Truncated 24-cell honeycomb

In four-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the truncated 24-cell honeycomb is a uniform space-filling honeycomb.

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Truncated 24-cells

In geometry, a truncated 24-cell is a uniform 4-polytope (4-dimensional uniform polytope) formed as the truncation of the regular 24-cell.

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Truncated cuboctahedron

In geometry, the truncated cuboctahedron is an Archimedean solid, named by Kepler as a truncation of a cuboctahedron.

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Truncated triakis tetrahedron

The truncated triakis tetrahedron is a convex polyhedron with 16 faces: 4 sets of 3 pentagons arranged in a tetrahedral arrangement, with 4 hexagons in the gaps.

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Truncation (geometry)

In geometry, a truncation is an operation in any dimension that cuts polytope vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.

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Vertex configuration

In geometry, a vertex configuration by Walter Steurer, Sofia Deloudi, (2009) pp.

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Wythoff construction

In geometry, a Wythoff construction, named after mathematician Willem Abraham Wythoff, is a method for constructing a uniform polyhedron or plane tiling.

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16-cell

In four-dimensional geometry, a 16-cell is a regular convex 4-polytope.

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4-polytope

In geometry, a 4-polytope (sometimes also called a polychoron, polycell, or polyhedroid) is a four-dimensional polytope.

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5-cube

In five-dimensional geometry, a 5-cube is a name for a five-dimensional hypercube with 32 vertices, 80 edges, 80 square faces, 40 cubic cells, and 10 tesseract 4-faces.

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5-demicube

In five-dimensional geometry, a demipenteract or 5-demicube is a semiregular 5-polytope, constructed from a 5-hypercube (penteract) with alternated vertices removed.

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6-cube

In geometry, a 6-cube is a six-dimensional hypercube with 64 vertices, 192 edges, 240 square faces, 160 cubic cells, 60 tesseract 4-faces, and 12 5-cube 5-faces.

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6-demicube

In geometry, a 6-demicube or demihexteract is a uniform 6-polytope, constructed from a 6-cube (hexeract) with alternated vertices removed.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternation_(geometry)

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