Tetrahedral cupola

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Tetrahedral cupola
4D Tetrahedral Cupola-perspective-cuboctahedron-first.png
Schlegel diagram
Type Polyhedral cupola
Schläfli symbol {3,3} v rr{3,3}
Cells 16 1 rr{3,3} Uniform polyhedron-33-t02.png
1+4 {3,3} Uniform polyhedron-33-t0.png
4+6 {}×{3} Triangular prism.png
Faces 42 24 triangles
18 squares
Edges 42
Vertices 16
Dual
Symmetry group [3,3,1], order 24
Properties convex, regular-faced

In 4-dimensional geometry, the tetrahedral cupola is a polychoron bounded by one tetrahedron, a parallel cuboctahedron, connected by 10 triangular prisms, and 4 triangular pyramids.[1]

Related polytopes[]

The tetrahedral cupola can be sliced off from a runcinated 5-cell, on a hyperplane parallel to a tetrahedral cell. The cuboctahedron base passes through the center of the runcinated 5-cell, so the Tetrahedral cupola contains half of the tetrahedron and triangular prism cells of the runcinated 5-cell. The cupola can be seen in A2 and A3 Coxeter plane orthogonal projection of the runcinated 5-cell:

A3 Coxeter plane
Runcinated 5-cell Tetrahedron
(Cupola top)
Cuboctahedron
(Cupola base)
4-simplex t03 A3.svg 3-simplex t0.svg 3-simplex t02.svg
A2 Coxeter plane
4-simplex t03 A2.svg 3-simplex t0 A2.svg 3-simplex t02 A2.svg

See also[]

  • Tetrahedral pyramid (5-cell)

References[]

  1. ^ Convex Segmentochora Dr. Richard Klitzing, Symmetry: Culture and Science, Vol. 11, Nos. 1-4, 139-181, 2000 (4.23 tetrahedron || cuboctahedron)

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