The 7-demicubic honeycomb, or demihepteractic honeycomb is a uniform space-filling

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(or

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) in Euclidean 7-space. It is constructed as an alternation of the regular 7-cubic honeycomb. It is composed of two different types of

facet Facets () are flat faces on geometric shapes. The organization of naturally occurring facets was key to early developments in crystallography, since they reflect the underlying symmetry of the crystal structure. Gemstones commonly have facets cut ...

s. The

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s become alternated into

7-demicube In geometry, a demihepteract or 7-demicube is a uniform 7-polytope, constructed from the 7-hypercube (hepteract) with alternated vertices removed. It is part of a dimensionally infinite family of uniform polytopes called demihypercubes. E. L. Elt ...

s h and the alternated vertices create

7-orthoplex In geometry, a 7-orthoplex, or 7-cross polytope, is a regular 7-polytope with 14 Vertex (geometry), vertices, 84 Edge (geometry), edges, 280 triangle Face (geometry), faces, 560 tetrahedron Cell (mathematics), cells, 672 5-cells ''4-faces'', 448 ...

facets.

D7 lattice

The

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of the 7-demicubic honeycomb is the D₇ lattice. The 84 vertices of the

rectified 7-orthoplex In seven-dimensional geometry, a rectified 7-orthoplex is a convex uniform 7-polytope, being a rectification of the regular 7-orthoplex. There are unique 7 degrees of rectifications, the zeroth being the 7-orthoplex, and the 6th and last being th ...

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of the ''7-demicubic honeycomb'' reflect the

kissing number In geometry, the kissing number of a mathematical space is defined as the greatest number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can be arranged in that space such that they each touch a common unit sphere. For a given sphere packing (arrangement of ...

84 of this lattice. The best known is 126, from the E₇ lattice and the 3₃₁ honeycomb. The D packing (also called D) can be constructed by the union of two ''D₇ lattices''. The D packings form lattices only in even dimensions. The kissing number is 2⁶=64 (2^n-1 for n<8, 240 for n=8, and 2n(n-1) for n>8). : ∪ The D lattice (also called D and C) can be constructed by the union of all four 7-demicubic lattices: It is also the 7-dimensional

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, the union of two

7-cube honeycomb The 7-cubic honeycomb or hepteractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 7-space. It is analogous to the square tiling of the plane and to the cubic honeycomb of 3-space. There are many different W ...

s in dual positions. : ∪ ∪ ∪ = ∪ . The

of the D lattice is 14 (''2n'' for n≥5) and its

Voronoi tessellation Voronoi or Voronoy is a Slavic masculine surname; its feminine counterpart is Voronaya. It may refer to *Georgy Voronoy (1868–1908), Russian and Ukrainian mathematician **Voronoi diagram **Weighted Voronoi diagram ** Voronoi deformation density ** ...

is a

quadritruncated 7-cubic honeycomb The 7-cubic honeycomb or hepteractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 7-space. It is analogous to the square tiling of the plane and to the cubic honeycomb of 3-space. There are many different W ...

, , containing all with

tritruncated 7-orthoplex In seven-dimensional geometry, a truncated 7-orthoplex is a convex uniform 7-polytope, being a truncation of the regular 7-orthoplex. There are 6 truncations of the 7-orthoplex. Vertices of the truncation 7-orthoplex are located as pairs on the ed ...

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s.Conway (1998), p. 466

Symmetry constructions

There are three uniform construction symmetries of this tessellation. Each symmetry can be represented by arrangements of different colors on the 128

facets around each vertex.

References

* Coxeter, H.S.M. ''

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'', (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ** pp. 154–156: Partial truncation or alternation, represented by ''h'' prefix: h=; h=, h=, ... * Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of

H. S. M. Coxeter Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was a British and later also Canadian geometer. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. Biography Coxeter was born in Kensington t ...

, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995,

** (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, ''Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III'', ath. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45*

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