Following is a list of some
mathematically well-defined
In mathematics, a well-defined expression or unambiguous expression is an expression whose definition assigns it a unique interpretation or value. Otherwise, the expression is said to be ''not well defined'', ill defined or ''ambiguous''. A funct ...
shape
A shape or figure is a graphics, graphical representation of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external Surface (mathematics), surface, as opposed to other properties such as color, Surface texture, texture, or material type.
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Algebraic curve
In mathematics, an affine algebraic plane curve is the zero set of a polynomial in two variables. A projective algebraic plane curve is the zero set in a projective plane of a homogeneous polynomial in three variables. An affine algebraic plane c ...
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Cubic plane curve
In mathematics, a cubic plane curve is a plane algebraic curve defined by a cubic equation
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applied to homogeneous coordinates for the projective plane; or the inhomogeneous version for the affine space determined by setting in such an eq ...
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Quartic plane curve
In algebraic geometry, a quartic plane curve is a plane algebraic curve of the fourth degree. It can be defined by a bivariate quartic equation:
:Ax^4+By^4+Cx^3y+Dx^2y^2+Exy^3+Fx^3+Gy^3+Hx^2y+Ixy^2+Jx^2+Ky^2+Lxy+Mx+Ny+P=0,
with at least one of ...
Rational curves
Degree 2
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Conic section
In mathematics, a conic section, quadratic curve or conic is a curve obtained as the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane. The three types of conic section are the hyperbola, the parabola, and the ellipse; the circle is a specia ...
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Unit circle
In mathematics, a unit circle is a circle of unit radius—that is, a radius of 1. Frequently, especially in trigonometry, the unit circle is the circle of radius 1 centered at the origin (0, 0) in the Cartesian coordinate system in the Eucl ...
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Unit hyperbola
In geometry, the unit hyperbola is the set of points (''x'',''y'') in the Cartesian plane that satisfy the implicit equation x^2 - y^2 = 1 . In the study of indefinite orthogonal groups, the unit hyperbola forms the basis for an ''alternative radi ...
Degree 3
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Folium of Descartes
In geometry, the folium of Descartes (; named for René Decartes) is an algebraic curve defined by the implicit equation
:x^3 + y^3 - 3 a x y = 0.
History
The curve was first proposed and studied by René Descartes in 1638. Its claim to fam ...
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Cissoid of Diocles
In geometry, the cissoid of Diocles (; named for Diocles) is a cubic plane curve notable for the property that it can be used to construct two mean proportionals to a given ratio. In particular, it can be used to double a cube. It can be de ...
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Conchoid of de Sluze
In algebraic geometry, the conchoids of de Sluze are a family of plane curves studied in 1662 by Walloon mathematician René François Walter, baron de Sluze..
The curves are defined by the polar equation
:r=\sec\theta+a\cos\theta \,.
In cartes ...
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Right strophoid
In geometry, a strophoid is a curve generated from a given curve and points (the fixed point) and (the pole) as follows: Let be a variable line passing through and intersecting at . Now let and be the two points on whose distance from ...
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Semicubical parabola
In mathematics, a cuspidal cubic or semicubical parabola is an algebraic plane curve that has an implicit equation of the form
: y^2 - a^2 x^3 = 0
(with ) in some Cartesian coordinate system.
Solving for leads to the ''explicit form''
: y = \ ...
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Serpentine curve
A serpentine curve is a curve whose equation is of the form
:x^2y+a^2y-abx=0, \quad ab > 0.
Equivalently, it has a parametric representation
:x=a\cot(t), y=b\sin (t)\cos(t),
or functional representation
:y=\frac.
The curve has an inflection po ...
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Trident curve In mathematics, a trident curve (also trident of Newton or parabola of Descartes) is any member of the family of curves that have the formula:
:xy+ax^3+bx^2+cx=d
Trident curves are cubic plane curves with an ordinary double point in the real pr ...
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Trisectrix of Maclaurin
In algebraic geometry, the trisectrix of Maclaurin is a cubic plane curve notable for its trisectrix property, meaning it can be used to trisect an angle. It can be defined as locus of the point of intersection of two lines, each rotating at a ...
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Tschirnhausen cubic
In algebraic geometry, the Tschirnhausen cubic, or Tschirnhaus' cubic is a plane curve defined, in its left-opening form, by the polar equation
:r = a\sec^3 \left(\frac\right)
where is the secant function.
History
The curve was studied by Ehrenf ...
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Witch of Agnesi
In mathematics, the witch of Agnesi () is a cubic plane curve defined from two diametrically opposite points of a circle. It gets its name from Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, and from a mistranslation of an Italian word for a sail ...
Degree 4
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Ampersand curve
In algebraic geometry, a quartic plane curve is a plane algebraic curve of the fourth degree. It can be defined by a bivariate quartic equation:
:Ax^4+By^4+Cx^3y+Dx^2y^2+Exy^3+Fx^3+Gy^3+Hx^2y+Ixy^2+Jx^2+Ky^2+Lxy+Mx+Ny+P=0,
with at least one o ...
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Bean curve
In algebraic geometry, a quartic plane curve is a plane algebraic curve of the fourth degree. It can be defined by a bivariate quartic equation:
:Ax^4+By^4+Cx^3y+Dx^2y^2+Exy^3+Fx^3+Gy^3+Hx^2y+Ixy^2+Jx^2+Ky^2+Lxy+Mx+Ny+P=0,
with at least one o ...
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Bicorn
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Bow curve
In algebraic geometry, a quartic plane curve is a plane algebraic curve of the fourth degree. It can be defined by a bivariate quartic equation:
:Ax^4+By^4+Cx^3y+Dx^2y^2+Exy^3+Fx^3+Gy^3+Hx^2y+Ixy^2+Jx^2+Ky^2+Lxy+Mx+Ny+P=0,
with at least one ...
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Bullet-nose curve
In mathematics, a bullet-nose curve is a unicursal quartic curve with three inflection points, given by the equation
:a^2y^2-b^2x^2=x^2y^2 \,
The bullet curve has three double points in the real projective plane, at and , and , and and , and ...
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Cruciform curve
In algebraic geometry, a quartic plane curve is a plane algebraic curve of the fourth degree. It can be defined by a bivariate quartic equation:
:Ax^4+By^4+Cx^3y+Dx^2y^2+Exy^3+Fx^3+Gy^3+Hx^2y+Ixy^2+Jx^2+Ky^2+Lxy+Mx+Ny+P=0,
with at least one o ...
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Deltoid curve
In geometry, a deltoid curve, also known as a tricuspoid curve or Steiner curve, is a hypocycloid of three cusps. In other words, it is the roulette created by a point on the circumference of a circle as it rolls without slipping along the insid ...
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Devil's curve
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Hippopede
In geometry, a hippopede () is a plane curve determined by an equation of the form
:(x^2+y^2)^2=cx^2+dy^2,
where it is assumed that and since the remaining cases either reduce to a single point or can be put into the given form with a rotation. ...
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Kampyle of Eudoxus
The Kampyle of Eudoxus (Greek: καμπύλη ραμμή meaning simply "curved ine curve") is a curve with a Cartesian equation of
:x^4 = a^2(x^2+y^2),
from which the solution ''x'' = ''y'' = 0 is excluded.
Alternative parameterizations
In ...
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Kappa curve
In geometry, the kappa curve or Gutschoven's curve is a two-dimensional algebraic curve resembling the Greek letter . The kappa curve was first studied by Gérard van Gutschoven around 1662. In the history of mathematics, it is remembered as one of ...
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Lemniscate of Booth
In geometry, a hippopede () is a plane curve determined by an equation of the form
:(x^2+y^2)^2=cx^2+dy^2,
where it is assumed that and since the remaining cases either reduce to a single point or can be put into the given form with a rotation. ...
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Lemniscate of Gerono
In algebraic geometry, the lemniscate of Gerono, or lemniscate of Huygens, or figure-eight curve, is a plane algebraic curve of degree four and genus zero and is a lemniscate
In algebraic geometry, a lemniscate is any of several figure-eight o ...
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Lemniscate of Bernoulli
In geometry, the lemniscate of Bernoulli is a plane curve defined from two given points and , known as foci, at distance from each other as the locus of points so that . The curve has a shape similar to the numeral 8 and to the ∞ symbol. I ...
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Limaçon
In geometry, a limaçon or limacon , also known as a limaçon of Pascal or Pascal's Snail, is defined as a roulette curve formed by the path of a point fixed to a circle when that circle rolls around the outside of a circle of equal radius. I ...
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Cardioid
In geometry, a cardioid () is a plane curve traced by a point on the perimeter of a circle that is rolling around a fixed circle of the same radius. It can also be defined as an epicycloid having a single cusp. It is also a type of sinusoidal spi ...
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Limaçon trisectrix
In geometry, a limaçon trisectrix is the name for the quartic plane curve that is a trisectrix that is specified as a limaçon. The shape of the limaçon trisectrix can be specified by other curves particularly as a rose, conchoid or epitro ...
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Trifolium curve
Degree 5
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Quintic of l'Hospital
Degree 6
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Astroid
In mathematics, an astroid is a particular type of roulette curve: a hypocycloid with four cusps. Specifically, it is the locus of a point on a circle as it rolls inside a fixed circle with four times the radius. By double generation, it ...
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Atriphtaloid
An atriphtaloid, also called an atriphtothlassic curve, is type of sextic plane curve. It is given by the equation
x^4 \left(x^2 + y^2\right) - \left(ax^2 - b\right)^2 = 0,
where ''a'' and ''b'' are positive number
In mathematics, the sign of ...
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Nephroid
In geometry, a nephroid () is a specific plane curve. It is a type of epicycloid in which the smaller circle's radius differs from the larger by a factor of one-half.
Name
Although the term ''nephroid'' was used to describe other curves, it was ...
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Quadrifolium
The quadrifolium (also known as four-leaved clover) is a type of rose curve with an angular frequency of 2. It has the polar equation:
:r = a\cos(2\theta), \,
with corresponding algebraic equation
:(x^2+y^2)^3 = a^2(x^2-y^2)^2. \,
Rotated ...
Families of variable degree
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Epicycloid
In geometry, an epicycloid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point on the circumference of a circle—called an ''epicycle''—which rolls without slipping around a fixed circle. It is a particular kind of roulette.
Equati ...
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Epispiral
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Epitrochoid
In geometry, an epitrochoid ( or ) is a roulette traced by a point attached to a circle of radius rolling around the outside of a fixed circle of radius , where the point is at a distance from the center of the exterior circle.
The parametric ...
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Hypocycloid
In geometry, a hypocycloid is a special plane curve generated by the trace of a fixed point on a small circle that rolls within a larger circle. As the radius of the larger circle is increased, the hypocycloid becomes more like the cycloid crea ...
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Lissajous curve
A Lissajous curve , also known as Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve , is the graph of a system of parametric equations
: x=A\sin(at+\delta),\quad y=B\sin(bt),
which describe the superposition of two perpendicular oscillations in x and y dire ...
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Poinsot's spirals
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Rational normal curve In mathematics, the rational normal curve is a smooth, rational curve of degree in projective n-space . It is a simple example of a projective variety; formally, it is the Veronese variety when the domain is the projective line. For it is the ...
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Rose curve
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be ...
Curves of genus one
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Bicuspid curve
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Cassini oval
In geometry, a Cassini oval is a quartic plane curve defined as the locus (mathematics), locus of points in the plane (geometry), plane such that the Product_(mathematics), product of the distances to two fixed points (Focus (geometry), foci) is ...
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Cassinoide
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Cubic curve
In mathematics, a cubic plane curve is a plane algebraic curve defined by a cubic equation
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applied to homogeneous coordinates for the projective plane; or the inhomogeneous version for the affine space determined by setting in such an eq ...
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Elliptic curve
In mathematics, an elliptic curve is a smooth, projective, algebraic curve of genus one, on which there is a specified point . An elliptic curve is defined over a field and describes points in , the Cartesian product of with itself. If ...
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Watt's curve
In mathematics, Watt's curve is a tricircular plane algebraic curve of degree six. It is generated by two circles of radius ''b'' with centers distance 2''a'' apart (taken to be at (±''a'', 0)). A line segment of length 2''c'' attaches to a p ...
Curves with genus greater than one
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Butterfly curve Butterfly curve may refer to:
*Butterfly curve (algebraic)
In mathematics, the algebraic butterfly curve is a plane algebraic curve of degree six, given by the equation
:x^6 + y^6 = x^2.
The butterfly curve has a single singularity with d ...
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Elkies trinomial curves
Elkies trinomial curve C168
In number theory, the Elkies trinomial curves are certain hyperelliptic curves constructed by Noam Elkies which have the property that rational points on them correspond to trinomial polynomials giving an extension of Q ...
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Hyperelliptic curve
In algebraic geometry, a hyperelliptic curve is an algebraic curve of genus ''g'' > 1, given by an equation of the form
y^2 + h(x)y = f(x)
where ''f''(''x'') is a polynomial of degree ''n'' = 2''g'' + 1 > 4 or ''n'' = 2''g'' + 2 > 4 with ''n'' dist ...
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Klein quartic
In hyperbolic geometry, the Klein quartic, named after Felix Klein, is a compact Riemann surface of genus with the highest possible order automorphism group for this genus, namely order orientation-preserving automorphisms, and automorphisms ...
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Classical modular curve In number theory, the classical modular curve is an irreducible plane algebraic curve given by an equation
:,
such that is a point on the curve. Here denotes the -invariant.
The curve is sometimes called , though often that notation is used fo ...
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Bolza surface
In mathematics, the Bolza surface, alternatively, complex algebraic Bolza curve (introduced by ), is a compact Riemann surface of genus 2 with the highest possible order of the conformal automorphism group in this genus, namely GL_2(3) of order 48 ...
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Macbeath surface In Riemann surface theory and hyperbolic geometry, the Macbeath surface, also called Macbeath's curve or the Fricke–Macbeath curve, is the genus-7 Hurwitz surface.
The automorphism group of the Macbeath surface is the simple group Projective line ...
Curve families with variable genus
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Polynomial lemniscate
In mathematics, a polynomial lemniscate or ''polynomial level curve'' is a plane algebraic curve of degree 2n, constructed from a polynomial ''p'' with complex coefficients of degree ''n''.
For any such polynomial ''p'' and positive real number ' ...
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Fermat curve
In mathematics, the Fermat curve is the algebraic curve in the complex projective plane defined in homogeneous coordinates (''X'':''Y'':''Z'') by the Fermat equation
:X^n + Y^n = Z^n.\
Therefore, in terms of the affine plane its equation is
:x^ ...
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Sinusoidal spiral
In algebraic geometry, the sinusoidal spirals are a family of curves defined by the equation in polar coordinates
:r^n = a^n \cos(n \theta)\,
where is a nonzero constant and is a rational number other than 0. With a rotation about the origin, ...
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Superellipse
A superellipse, also known as a Lamé curve after Gabriel Lamé, is a closed curve resembling the ellipse, retaining the geometric features of semi-major axis and semi-minor axis, and symmetry about them, but a different overall shape.
In the ...
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Hurwitz surface
In Riemann surface theory and hyperbolic geometry, a Hurwitz surface, named after Adolf Hurwitz, is a compact Riemann surface with precisely 84(''g'' − 1) automorphisms, where ''g'' is the genus of the surface. This number is maximal by vir ...
Transcendental curves
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Bowditch curve
A Lissajous curve , also known as Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve , is the graph of a system of parametric equations
: x=A\sin(at+\delta),\quad y=B\sin(bt),
which describe the superposition of two perpendicular oscillations in x and y dir ...
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Brachistochrone
In physics and mathematics, a brachistochrone curve (), or curve of fastest descent, is the one lying on the plane between a point ''A'' and a lower point ''B'', where ''B'' is not directly below ''A'', on which a bead slides frictionlessly under ...
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Butterfly curve Butterfly curve may refer to:
*Butterfly curve (algebraic)
In mathematics, the algebraic butterfly curve is a plane algebraic curve of degree six, given by the equation
:x^6 + y^6 = x^2.
The butterfly curve has a single singularity with d ...
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Catenary
In physics and geometry, a catenary (, ) is the curve that an idealized hanging chain or cable assumes under its own weight when supported only at its ends in a uniform gravitational field.
The catenary curve has a U-like shape, superficia ...
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Clélies
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Cochleoid
In geometry, a cochleoid is a snail-shaped curve similar to a strophoid which can be represented by the polar equation
:r=\frac,
the Cartesian equation
:(x^2+y^2)\arctan\frac=ay,
or the parametric equations
:x=\frac, \quad y=\frac.
The coch ...
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Cycloid
In geometry, a cycloid is the curve traced by a point on a circle as it rolls along a straight line without slipping. A cycloid is a specific form of trochoid and is an example of a roulette, a curve generated by a curve rolling on another curve ...
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Horopter
The horopter was originally defined in geometric terms as the locus of points in space that make the same angle at each eye with the fixation point, although more recently in studies of binocular vision it is taken to be the locus of points in spa ...
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Isochrone
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Isochrone of Huygens (Tautochrone)
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Isochrone of Leibniz
Isochrone may refer to:
* Stellar isochrone, the curve on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram representing stars of the same age
* Isochrone curve, the curve (a cycloid) for which objects starting at different points finish at the same time and point ...
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Isochrone of Varignon
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Lamé curve
A superellipse, also known as a Lamé curve after Gabriel Lamé, is a closed curve resembling the ellipse, retaining the geometric features of semi-major axis and semi-minor axis, and symmetry about them, but a different overall shape.
In the ...
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Pursuit curve
In geometry, a curve of pursuit is a curve constructed by analogy to having a point or points representing pursuers and pursuees; the curve of pursuit is the curve traced by the pursuers.
With the paths of the pursuer and pursuee parameterized ...
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Rhumb line
In navigation, a rhumb line, rhumb (), or loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant bearing as measured relative to true north.
Introduction
The effect of following a rhumb li ...
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Spiral
In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving farther away as it revolves around the point.
Helices
Two major definitions of "spiral" in the American Heritage Dictionary are:[Archimedean spiral
The Archimedean spiral (also known as the arithmetic spiral) is a spiral named after the 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician Archimedes. It is the locus corresponding to the locations over time of a point moving away from a fixed point with a con ...]
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Cornu spiral
An Euler spiral is a curve whose curvature changes linearly with its curve length (the curvature of a circular curve is equal to the reciprocal of the radius). Euler spirals are also commonly referred to as spiros, clothoids, or Cornu spirals.
Eu ...
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Cotes' spiral
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Fermat's spiral
A Fermat's spiral or parabolic spiral is a plane curve with the property that the area between any two consecutive full turns around the spiral is invariant. As a result, the distance between turns grows in inverse proportion to their distance f ...
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Galileo's spiral
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Hyperbolic spiral
A hyperbolic spiral is a plane curve, which can be described in polar coordinates by the equation
:r=\frac
of a hyperbola. Because it can be generated by a circle inversion of an Archimedean spiral, it is called Reciprocal spiral, too..
Pierre ...
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Lituus
The word ''lituus'' originally meant a curved augural staff, or a curved war-trumpet in the ancient Latin language. This Latin word continued in use through the 18th century as an alternative to the vernacular names of various musical instruments ...
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Logarithmic spiral
A logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral, or growth spiral is a self-similar spiral curve that often appears in nature. The first to describe a logarithmic spiral was Albrecht Dürer (1525) who called it an "eternal line" ("ewige Linie"). Mor ...
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Nielsen's spiral
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Syntractrix
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Tractrix
In geometry, a tractrix (; plural: tractrices) is the curve along which an object moves, under the influence of friction, when pulled on a horizontal plane by a line segment attached to a pulling point (the ''tractor'') that moves at a right angl ...
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Trochoid
In geometry, a trochoid () is a roulette curve formed by a circle rolling along a line. It is the curve traced out by a point fixed to a circle (where the point may be on, inside, or outside the circle) as it rolls along a straight line. If the ...
Piecewise
In mathematics, a piecewise-defined function (also called a piecewise function, a hybrid function, or definition by cases) is a function defined by multiple sub-functions, where each sub-function applies to a different interval in the domain. Pi ...
constructions
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Bézier curve
A Bézier curve ( ) is a parametric curve used in computer graphics and related fields. A set of discrete "control points" defines a smooth, continuous curve by means of a formula. Usually the curve is intended to approximate a real-world shape t ...
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Splines
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B-spline
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Nonuniform rational B-spline
Non-uniform rational basis spline (NURBS) is a mathematical model using basis splines (B-splines) that is commonly used in computer graphics for representing curves and surfaces. It offers great flexibility and precision for handling both analyt ...
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Ogee
An ogee ( ) is the name given to objects, elements, and curves—often seen in architecture and building trades—that have been variously described as serpentine-, extended S-, or sigmoid-shaped. Ogees consist of a "double curve", the combinatio ...
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Loess curve
Local regression or local polynomial regression, also known as moving regression, is a generalization of the moving average and polynomial regression.
Its most common methods, initially developed for scatterplot smoothing, are LOESS (locally es ...
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Lowess
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Polygonal curve
In geometry, a polygonal chain is a connected series of line segments. More formally, a polygonal chain is a curve specified by a sequence of points (A_1, A_2, \dots, A_n) called its vertices. The curve itself consists of the line segments co ...
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Maurer rose
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Reuleaux triangle
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Bézier triangle A Bézier triangle is a special type of Bézier surface that is created by (linear, quadratic, cubic or higher degree) interpolation of control points.
''n''th-order Bézier triangle
A general ''n''th-order Bézier triangle has (''n'' +1)('' ...
Curves generated by other curves
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Caustic
Caustic most commonly refers to:
* Causticity, a property of various corrosive substances
** Sodium hydroxide, sometimes called ''caustic soda''
** Potassium hydroxide, sometimes called ''caustic potash''
** Calcium oxide, sometimes called ''caus ...
including Catacaustic and Diacaustic
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Cissoid
In geometry, a cissoid (() is a plane curve generated from two given curves , and a point (the pole). Let be a variable line passing through and intersecting at and at . Let be the point on so that \overline = \overline. (There are actua ...
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Conchoid
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Evolute
In the differential geometry of curves, the evolute of a curve is the locus of all its centers of curvature. That is to say that when the center of curvature of each point on a curve is drawn, the resultant shape will be the evolute of that curv ...
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Glissette
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Inverse curve
In inversive geometry, an inverse curve of a given curve is the result of applying an inverse operation to . Specifically, with respect to a fixed circle with center and radius the inverse of a point is the point for which lies on the ray ...
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Involute
In mathematics, an involute (also known as an evolvent) is a particular type of curve that is dependent on another shape or curve. An involute of a curve is the locus of a point on a piece of taut string as the string is either unwrapped from or ...
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Isoptic
In the geometry of curves, an orthoptic is the set of points for which two tangents of a given curve meet at a right angle.
Examples:
# The orthoptic of a parabola is its directrix (proof: see below),
# The orthoptic of an ellipse \tfrac + ...
including Orthoptic
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Orthotomic
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Negative pedal curve
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Pedal curve
A pedal (from the Latin '' pes'' ''pedis'', "foot") is a lever designed to be operated by foot and may refer to:
Computers and other equipment
* Footmouse, a foot-operated computer mouse
* In medical transcription, a pedal is used to control ...
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Parallel curve
A parallel of a curve is the envelope of a family of congruent circles centered on the curve.
It generalises the concept of '' parallel (straight) lines''. It can also be defined as a curve whose points are at a constant '' normal distance'' f ...
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Radial curve
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Roulette
Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning ''little wheel'' which was likely developed from the Italian game Biribi''.'' In the game, a player may choose to place a bet on a single number, various groupings of numbers, the ...
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Strophoid
Space curves
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Conchospiral
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Helix
A helix () is a shape like a corkscrew or spiral staircase. It is a type of smooth space curve with tangent lines at a constant angle to a fixed axis. Helices are important in biology, as the DNA molecule is formed as two intertwined helices, ...
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Tendril perversion
Tendril perversion is a geometric phenomenon sometimes observed in helical structures in which the direction of the helix transitions between left-handed and right-handed. Such a reversal of chirality is commonly seen in helical plant tendri ...
(a transition between back-to-back helices)
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Hemihelix
A hemihelix is a curved geometric shape consisting of a series of helices with alternating chirality, connected by a perversion
Perversion is a form of human behavior which deviates from what is considered to be orthodox or normal. Althou ...
, a quasi-helical shape characterized by multiple tendril perversions
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Seiffert's spiral
Seiffert's spherical spiral is a curve on a sphere made by moving on the sphere with constant speed and angular velocity with respect to a fixed diameter. If the selected diameter is the line from the north pole to the south pole, then the requir ...
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Slinky spiral
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Twisted cubic
In mathematics, a twisted cubic is a smooth, rational curve ''C'' of degree three in projective 3-space P3. It is a fundamental example of a skew curve. It is essentially unique, up to projective transformation (''the'' twisted cubic, therefore). ...
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Viviani's curve
In mathematics, Viviani's curve, also known as Viviani's window, is a figure eight shaped space curve named after the Italian mathematician Vincenzo Viviani. It is the intersection of a sphere with a cylinder that is tangent to the sphere and p ...
Surfaces in 3-space
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Plane
Plane(s) most often refers to:
* Aero- or airplane, a powered, fixed-wing aircraft
* Plane (geometry), a flat, 2-dimensional surface
Plane or planes may also refer to:
Biology
* Plane (tree) or ''Platanus'', wetland native plant
* ''Planes' ...
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Quadric surfaces
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Cone
A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.
A cone is formed by a set of line segments, half-lines, or lines con ...
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Cylinder
A cylinder (from ) has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a prism with a circle as its base.
A cylinder may also be defined as an infin ...
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Ellipsoid
An ellipsoid is a surface that may be obtained from a sphere by deforming it by means of directional scalings, or more generally, of an affine transformation.
An ellipsoid is a quadric surface; that is, a surface that may be defined as the ...
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Spheroid
A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters. A spheroid has cir ...
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Sphere
A sphere () is a Geometry, geometrical object that is a solid geometry, three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle. A sphere is the Locus (mathematics), set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three ...
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Hyperboloid
In geometry, a hyperboloid of revolution, sometimes called a circular hyperboloid, is the surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around one of its principal axes. A hyperboloid is the surface obtained from a hyperboloid of revolution by defo ...
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Paraboloid
In geometry, a paraboloid is a quadric surface that has exactly one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry. The term "paraboloid" is derived from parabola, which refers to a conic section that has a similar property of symmetry.
Every plane ...
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Bicylinder
In geometry, a Steinmetz solid is the solid body obtained as the intersection of two or three cylinders of equal radius at right angles. Each of the curves of the intersection of two cylinders is an ellipse.
The intersection of two cylinders ...
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Tricylinder
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Möbius strip
In mathematics, a Möbius strip, Möbius band, or Möbius loop is a surface that can be formed by attaching the ends of a strip of paper together with a half-twist. As a mathematical object, it was discovered by Johann Benedict Listing and Augu ...
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Torus
In geometry, a torus (plural tori, colloquially donut or doughnut) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space about an axis that is coplanar with the circle.
If the axis of revolution does not tou ...
Minimal surface
In mathematics, a minimal surface is a surface that locally minimizes its area. This is equivalent to having zero mean curvature (see definitions below).
The term "minimal surface" is used because these surfaces originally arose as surfaces that ...
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Catalan's minimal surface
In differential geometry, Catalan's minimal surface is a minimal surface originally studied by Eugène Charles Catalan in 1855.
It has the special property of being the minimal surface that contains a cycloid as a geodesic. It is also ''swept ...
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Costa's minimal surface
In mathematics, Costa's minimal surface, is an embedded minimal surface discovered in 1982 by the Brazilian mathematician Celso José da Costa. It is also a surface of finite topology, which means that it can be formed by puncturing a compact s ...
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Catenoid
In geometry, a catenoid is a type of surface, arising by rotating a catenary curve about an axis (a surface of revolution). It is a minimal surface, meaning that it occupies the least area when bounded by a closed space. It was formally describe ...
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Enneper surface
In differential geometry and algebraic geometry, the Enneper surface is a self-intersecting surface that can be described parametrically by:
\begin
x &= \tfrac u \left(1 - \tfracu^2 + v^2\right), \\
y &= \tfrac v \left(1 - \tfracv^2 + u^2\righ ...
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Gyroid
A gyroid is an infinitely connected triply periodic minimal surface discovered by Alan Schoen in 1970.
History and properties
The gyroid is the unique non-trivial embedded member of the associate family of the Schwarz P and D surfaces. I ...
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Helicoid
The helicoid, also known as helical surface, after the plane and the catenoid, is the third minimal surface to be known.
Description
It was described by Euler in 1774 and by Jean Baptiste Meusnier in 1776. Its name derives from its similarit ...
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Lidinoid
In differential geometry, the lidinoid is a triply periodic minimal surface. The name comes from its Swedish discoverer Sven Lidin (who called it the HG surface).
It has many similarities to the gyroid, and just as the gyroid is the unique emb ...
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Riemann's minimal surface
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Saddle tower
In differential geometry, a saddle tower is a minimal surface family generalizing the singly periodic Scherk's second surface so that it has ''N''-fold (''N'' > 2) symmetry around one axis.
These surfaces are the only properly embedded ...
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Scherk surface
In mathematics, a Scherk surface (named after Heinrich Scherk) is an example of a minimal surface. Scherk described two complete embedded minimal surfaces in 1834; his first surface is a doubly periodic surface, his second surface is singly peri ...
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Schwarz minimal surface In differential geometry, the Schwarz minimal surfaces are periodic minimal surfaces originally described by Hermann Schwarz.
In the 1880s Schwarz and his student E. R. Neovius described periodic minimal surfaces. They were later named ...
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Triply periodic minimal surface
In differential geometry, a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) is a minimal surface in ℝ3 that is invariant under a rank-3 lattice of translations.
These surfaces have the symmetries of a crystallographic group. Numerous examples are know ...
Non-orientable
In mathematics, orientability is a property of some topological spaces such as real vector spaces, Euclidean spaces, surfaces, and more generally manifolds that allows a consistent definition of "clockwise" and "counterclockwise". A space i ...
surfaces
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Klein bottle
In topology, a branch of mathematics, the Klein bottle () is an example of a non-orientable surface; it is a two-dimensional manifold against which a system for determining a normal vector cannot be consistently defined. Informally, it is a o ...
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Real projective plane
In mathematics, the real projective plane is an example of a compact non-orientable two-dimensional manifold; in other words, a one-sided surface. It cannot be embedded in standard three-dimensional space without intersecting itself. It has bas ...
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Cross-cap
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Roman surface
In mathematics, the Roman surface or Steiner surface is a self-intersecting mapping of the real projective plane into three-dimensional space, with an unusually high degree of symmetry. This mapping is not an immersion of the projective plane; ...
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Boy's surface
In geometry, Boy's surface is an immersion of the real projective plane in 3-dimensional space found by Werner Boy in 1901. He discovered it on assignment from David Hilbert to prove that the projective plane ''could not'' be immersed in 3-space ...
Quadric
In mathematics, a quadric or quadric surface (quadric hypersurface in higher dimensions), is a generalization of conic sections (ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas). It is a hypersurface (of dimension ''D'') in a -dimensional space, and it is de ...
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Sphere
A sphere () is a Geometry, geometrical object that is a solid geometry, three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle. A sphere is the Locus (mathematics), set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three ...
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Spheroid
A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters. A spheroid has cir ...
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Oblate spheroid
A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters. A spheroid has circ ...
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Cone
A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.
A cone is formed by a set of line segments, half-lines, or lines con ...
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Ellipsoid
An ellipsoid is a surface that may be obtained from a sphere by deforming it by means of directional scalings, or more generally, of an affine transformation.
An ellipsoid is a quadric surface; that is, a surface that may be defined as the ...
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Hyperboloid of one sheet
In geometry, a hyperboloid of revolution, sometimes called a circular hyperboloid, is the surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around one of its principal axes. A hyperboloid is the surface obtained from a hyperboloid of revolution by defo ...
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Hyperboloid of two sheets
In geometry, a hyperboloid of revolution, sometimes called a circular hyperboloid, is the surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around one of its principal axes. A hyperboloid is the surface obtained from a hyperboloid of revolution by defo ...
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Hyperbolic paraboloid
In geometry, a paraboloid is a quadric surface that has exactly one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry. The term "paraboloid" is derived from parabola, which refers to a conic section that has a similar property of symmetry.
Every plane ...
(a ruled surface)
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Paraboloid
In geometry, a paraboloid is a quadric surface that has exactly one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry. The term "paraboloid" is derived from parabola, which refers to a conic section that has a similar property of symmetry.
Every plane ...
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Sphericon
In solid geometry, the sphericon is a solid that has a continuous developable surface with two congruent, semi-circular edges, and four vertices that define a square. It is a member of a special family of rollers that, while being rolled on ...
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Oloid
An oloid is a three-dimensional curved geometric object that was discovered by Paul Schatz in 1929. It is the convex hull of a skeletal frame made by placing two linked congruent circles in perpendicular planes, so that the center of each circl ...
Pseudospherical surfaces
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Dini's surface
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Pseudosphere
In geometry, a pseudosphere is a surface with constant negative Gaussian curvature.
A pseudosphere of radius is a surface in \mathbb^3 having curvature in each point. Its name comes from the analogy with the sphere of radius , which is a surface ...
Algebraic surface
In mathematics, an algebraic surface is an algebraic variety of dimension two. In the case of geometry over the field of complex numbers, an algebraic surface has complex dimension two (as a complex manifold, when it is non-singular) and so of di ...
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list of algebraic surfaces
This is a list of named algebraic surfaces, compact complex surfaces, and families thereof, sorted according to their Kodaira dimension following Enriques–Kodaira classification.
Kodaira dimension −∞
Rational surfaces
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Cayley cubic
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Barth sextic
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Clebsch cubic
In mathematics, the Clebsch diagonal cubic surface, or Klein's icosahedral cubic surface, is a non-singular cubic surface, studied by and , all of whose 27 exceptional lines
can be defined over the real numbers. The term Klein's icosahedral surf ...
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Monkey saddle
In mathematics, the monkey saddle is the surface defined by the equation
: z = x^3 - 3xy^2, \,
or in cylindrical coordinates
:z = \rho^3 \cos(3\varphi).
It belongs to the class of saddle surfaces, and its name derives from the observation tha ...
(saddle-like surface for 3 legs.)
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Torus
In geometry, a torus (plural tori, colloquially donut or doughnut) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space about an axis that is coplanar with the circle.
If the axis of revolution does not tou ...
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Dupin cyclide
In mathematics, a Dupin cyclide or cyclide of Dupin is any geometric inversion of a standard torus, cylinder or double cone. In particular, these latter are themselves examples of Dupin cyclides. They were discovered by (and named after) Charle ...
(inversion of a torus)
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Whitney umbrella
frame, Section of the surface
In geometry, the Whitney umbrella (or Whitney's umbrella, named after American mathematician Hassler Whitney, and sometimes called a Cayley umbrella) is a specific self-intersecting ruled surface placed in three dime ...
Miscellaneous surfaces
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Right conoid
In geometry, a right conoid is a ruled surface generated by a family of straight lines that all intersect perpendicularly to a fixed straight line, called the ''axis'' of the right conoid.
Using a Cartesian coordinate system in three-dimensiona ...
(a
ruled surface
In geometry, a surface is ruled (also called a scroll) if through every point of there is a straight line that lies on . Examples include the plane, the lateral surface of a cylinder or cone, a conical surface with elliptical directrix, the ...
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Fractals
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Apollonian gasket
In mathematics, an Apollonian gasket or Apollonian net is a fractal generated by starting with a triple of circles, each tangent to the other two, and successively filling in more circles, each tangent to another three. It is named after Greek mat ...
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Apollonian sphere packing
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Blancmange curve
In mathematics, the blancmange curve is a self-affine curve constructible by midpoint subdivision. It is also known as the Takagi curve, after Teiji Takagi who described it in 1901, or as the Takagi–Landsberg curve, a generalization of the cur ...
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Cantor dust
In mathematics, the Cantor set is a set of points lying on a single line segment that has a number of unintuitive properties. It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.
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Cantor set
In mathematics, the Cantor set is a set of points lying on a single line segment that has a number of unintuitive properties. It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.
Thr ...
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Cantor tesseract
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Circle inversion
A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is const ...
fractal
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De Rham curve
In mathematics, a de Rham curve is a certain type of fractal curve named in honor of Georges de Rham.
The Cantor function, Cesàro curve, Minkowski's question mark function, the Lévy C curve, the blancmange curve, and Koch curve are all special ...
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Douady rabbit
The Douady rabbit is any of various particular filled Julia sets associated with the parameter near the center period 3 buds of Mandelbrot set for complex quadratic map. It is named after French mathematician Adrien Douady.
Formula
The rabbi ...
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Dragon curve
A dragon curve is any member of a family of self-similar fractal curves, which can be approximated by recursive methods such as Lindenmayer systems. The dragon curve is probably most commonly thought of as the shape that is generated from repe ...
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Fibonacci word
A Fibonacci word is a specific sequence of binary digits (or symbols from any two-letter alphabet). The Fibonacci word is formed by repeated concatenation in the same way that the Fibonacci numbers are formed by repeated addition.
It is a para ...
fractal
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Flame fractal
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Fractal curve
A fractal curve is, loosely, a mathematical curve whose shape retains the same general pattern of irregularity, regardless of how high it is magnified, that is, its graph takes the form of a fractal. In general, fractal curves are nowhere rectif ...
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Gosper curve
The Gosper curve, named after Bill Gosper, also known as the Peano-Gosper Curve and the flowsnake (a spoonerism of snowflake), is a space-filling curve whose limit set is rep-7. It is a fractal curve similar in its construction to the dragon c ...
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Gosper island
The Gosper curve, named after Bill Gosper, also known as the Peano-Gosper Curve and the flowsnake (a spoonerism of snowflake), is a space-filling curve whose limit set is rep-7. It is a fractal curve similar in its construction to the dragon cu ...
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H-fractal
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Hénon map
The Hénon map, sometimes called Hénon–Pomeau attractor/map, is a discrete-time dynamical system. It is one of the most studied examples of dynamical systems that exhibit chaotic behavior. The Hénon map takes a point (''xn'', ''yn'') in ...
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Hexaflake
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Hilbert curve
The Hilbert curve (also known as the Hilbert space-filling curve) is a continuous fractal space-filling curve first described by the German mathematician David Hilbert in 1891, as a variant of the space-filling Peano curves discovered by Giuseppe ...
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Ikeda map
In physics and mathematics, the Ikeda map is a discrete-time dynamical system given by the complex map
: z_ = A + B z_n e^
The original map was proposed first by Kensuke Ikeda as a model of light going around
across a nonlinear optical reso ...
attractor
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Iterated function system
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Jerusalem cube
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Julia set
In the context of complex dynamics, a branch of mathematics, the Julia set and the Fatou set are two complementary sets (Julia "laces" and Fatou "dusts") defined from a function. Informally, the Fatou set of the function consists of values wi ...
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Koch curve
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curv ...
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Koch snowflake
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curv ...
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L-system
An L-system or Lindenmayer system is a parallel rewriting system and a type of formal grammar. An L-system consists of an alphabet of symbols that can be used to make strings, a collection of production rules that expand each symbol into some ...
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Lévy C curve
In mathematics, the Lévy C curve is a self-similar fractal curve that was first described and whose differentiability properties were analysed by Ernesto Cesàro in 1906 and Georg Faber in 1910, but now bears the name of French mathematician Pa ...
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Feigenbaum attractor
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Lorenz attractor
The Lorenz system is a system of ordinary differential equations first studied by mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz. It is notable for having chaotic solutions for certain parameter values and initial conditions. In particular, the Lo ...
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Lyapunov fractal
In mathematics, Lyapunov fractals (also known as Markus–Lyapunov fractals) are bifurcational fractals derived from an extension of the logistic map in which the degree of the growth of the population, ''r'', periodically switches between ...
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Mandelbrot set
The Mandelbrot set () is the set of complex numbers c for which the function f_c(z)=z^2+c does not diverge to infinity when iterated from z=0, i.e., for which the sequence f_c(0), f_c(f_c(0)), etc., remains bounded in absolute value.
This ...
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Mandelbrot tree
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Mandelbulb
The Mandelbulb is a three-dimensional fractal, constructed for the first time in 1997 by Jules Ruis and in 2009 further developed by Daniel White and Paul Nylander using spherical coordinates.
A canonical 3-dimensional Mandelbrot set does not e ...
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Menger sponge
In mathematics, the Menger sponge (also known as the Menger cube, Menger universal curve, Sierpinski cube, or Sierpinski sponge) is a fractal curve. It is a three-dimensional generalization of the one-dimensional Cantor set and two-dimensional Si ...
* Monkeys tree
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Moore curve
A Moore curve (after E. H. Moore) is a continuous fractal space-filling curve which is a variant of the Hilbert curve. Precisely, it is the loop version of the Hilbert curve, and it may be thought as the union of four copies of the Hilbert curves ...
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N-flake
An ''n''-flake, polyflake, or Sierpinski ''n''-gon, is a fractal constructed starting from an ''n''-gon. This ''n''-gon is replaced by a flake of smaller ''n''-gons, such that the scaled polygons are placed at the vertices, and sometimes in the c ...
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Pascal triangle
In mathematics, Pascal's triangle is a triangular array of the binomial coefficients that arises in probability theory, combinatorics, and algebra. In much of the Western world, it is named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal, although ...
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Peano curve
In geometry, the Peano curve is the first example of a space-filling curve to be discovered, by Giuseppe Peano in 1890. Peano's curve is a surjective, continuous function from the unit interval onto the unit square, however it is not injecti ...
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Penrose tiling
A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a ''tiling'' is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other shapes, and ''aperiodic'' means that shifting any tiling with these shapes by any finite distance, without ...
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Pinwheel tiling
In geometry, pinwheel tilings are non-periodic tilings defined by Charles Radin and based on a construction due to John Conway.
They are the first known non-periodic tilings to each have the property that their tiles appear in infinitely many or ...
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Pythagoras tree
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Rauzy fractal
In mathematics, the Rauzy fractal is a fractal set associated with the Tribonacci substitution
: s(1)=12,\ s(2)=13,\ s(3)=1 \,.
It was studied in 1981 by Gérard Rauzy, with the idea of generalizing the dynamic properties of the Fibonacci m ...
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Rössler attractor
The Rössler attractor is the attractor for the Rössler system, a system of three non-linear ordinary differential equations originally studied by Otto Rössler in the 1970s... These differential equations define a continuous-time dynamical ...
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Sierpiński arrowhead curve
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Sierpinski carpet
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Sierpiński curve
Sierpiński curves are a recursively defined sequence of continuous closed plane fractal curves discovered by Wacław Sierpiński, which in the limit n \to \infty completely fill the unit square: thus their limit curve, also called the Sierpiń ...
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Sierpinski triangle
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Smith–Volterra–Cantor set
In mathematics, the Smith–Volterra–Cantor set (SVC), fat Cantor set, or ε-Cantor set is an example of a set of points on the real line that is nowhere dense (in particular it contains no intervals), yet has positive measure. The Smith–Volt ...
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T-square
A T-square is a technical drawing instrument used by draftsmen primarily as a guide for drawing horizontal lines on a drafting table. The instrument is named after its resemblance to the letter T, with a long shaft called the "blade" and a sho ...
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Takagi or Blancmange curve
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Triflake
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Cur ...
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Vicsek fractal
In mathematics the Vicsek fractal, also known as Vicsek snowflake or box fractal, is a fractal arising from a construction similar to that of the Sierpinski carpet, proposed by Tamás Vicsek. It has applications including as compact antennas, pa ...
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von Koch curve
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Cur ...
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Weierstrass function
In mathematics, the Weierstrass function is an example of a real-valued function (mathematics), function that is continuous function, continuous everywhere but Differentiable function, differentiable nowhere. It is an example of a fractal curve ...
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Z-order curve
In mathematical analysis and computer science, functions which are Z-order, Lebesgue curve, Morton space-filling curve, Morton order or Morton code map multidimensional data to one dimension while preserving locality of the data points. It i ...
Random fractals
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von Koch curve
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Cur ...
with random interval
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von Koch curve
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Cur ...
with random orientation
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polymer
A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + ''-mer'', "part")
is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic a ...
shapes
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diffusion-limited aggregation
Diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) is the process whereby particles undergoing a random walk due to Brownian motion cluster together to form aggregates of such particles. This theory, proposed by T.A. Witten Jr. and L.M. Sander in 1981, is app ...
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Self-avoiding random walk
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Brownian motion
Brownian motion, or pedesis (from grc, πήδησις "leaping"), is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas).
This pattern of motion typically consists of random fluctuations in a particle's position insi ...
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Lichtenberg figure
A Lichtenberg figure (German ''Lichtenberg-Figuren''), or Lichtenberg dust figure, is a branching electric discharge that sometimes appears on the surface or in the interior of insulating materials. Lichtenberg figures are often associated wit ...
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Percolation theory
In statistical physics and mathematics, percolation theory describes the behavior of a network when nodes or links are added. This is a geometric type of phase transition, since at a critical fraction of addition the network of small, disconnected ...
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Multiplicative cascade In mathematics, a multiplicative cascade is a fractal/multifractal distribution of points produced via an iterative and multiplicative random process.
Definition
The plots above are examples of multiplicative cascade multifractals.
To create the ...
Regular polytopes
This table shows a summary of regular
polytope
In elementary geometry, a polytope is a geometric object with flat sides (''faces''). Polytopes are the generalization of three-dimensional polyhedra to any number of dimensions. Polytopes may exist in any general number of dimensions as an -d ...
counts by dimension.
There are no nonconvex Euclidean regular tessellations in any number of dimensions.
Polytope elements
The elements of a polytope can be considered according to either their own dimensionality or how many dimensions "down" they are from the body.
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Vertex
Vertex, vertices or vertexes may refer to:
Science and technology Mathematics and computer science
*Vertex (geometry), a point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet
*Vertex (computer graphics), a data structure that describes the position ...
, a 0-dimensional element
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Edge
Edge or EDGE may refer to:
Technology Computing
* Edge computing, a network load-balancing system
* Edge device, an entry point to a computer network
* Adobe Edge, a graphical development application
* Microsoft Edge, a web browser developed by ...
, a 1-dimensional element
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Face
The face is the front of an animal's head that features the eyes, nose and mouth, and through which animals express many of their emotions. The face is crucial for human identity, and damage such as scarring or developmental deformities may aff ...
, a 2-dimensional element
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Cell
Cell most often refers to:
* Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life
Cell may also refer to:
Locations
* Monastic cell, a small room, hut, or cave in which a religious recluse lives, alternatively the small precursor of a monastery ...
, a 3-dimensional element
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Hypercell or Teron, a 4-dimensional element
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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 ...
, an (''n''-1)-dimensional element
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Ridge
A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geographical feature consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for an extended distance. The sides of the ridge slope away from the narrow top on either side. The line ...
, an (''n''-2)-dimensional element
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Peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...
, an (''n''-3)-dimensional element
For example, in a
polyhedron
In geometry, a polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons; ) is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices.
A convex polyhedron is the convex hull of finitely many points, not all on th ...
(3-dimensional polytope), a face is a facet, an edge is a ridge, and a vertex is a peak.
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Vertex figure
In geometry, a vertex figure, broadly speaking, is the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.
Definitions
Take some corner or Vertex (geometry), vertex of a polyhedron. Mark a point somewhere along each connect ...
: not itself an element of a polytope, but a diagram showing how the elements meet.
Tessellations
The classical convex polytopes may be considered
tessellation
A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane (mathematics), plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called ''tiles'', with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to high-dimensional ...
s, or tilings, of spherical space. Tessellations of euclidean and hyperbolic space may also be considered regular polytopes. Note that an 'n'-dimensional polytope actually tessellates a space of one dimension less. For example, the (three-dimensional) platonic solids tessellate the 'two'-dimensional 'surface' of the sphere.
Zero dimension
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Point
Point or points may refer to:
Places
* Point, Lewis, a peninsula in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
* Point, Texas, a city in Rains County, Texas, United States
* Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
* Point ...
One-dimensional regular polytope
There is only one polytope in 1 dimension, whose boundaries are the two endpoints of a
line segment
In geometry, a line segment is a part of a straight line that is bounded by two distinct end points, and contains every point on the line that is between its endpoints. The length of a line segment is given by the Euclidean distance between ...
, represented by the empty
Schläfli symbol
In geometry, the Schläfli symbol is a notation of the form \ that defines regular polytopes and tessellations.
The Schläfli symbol is named after the 19th-century Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli, who generalized Euclidean geometry to more ...
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Two-dimensional regular polytopes
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Polygon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two toge ...
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Equilateral
In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides have the same length. In the familiar Euclidean geometry, an equilateral triangle is also equiangular; that is, all three internal angles are also congruent to each othe ...
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Cyclice
polygon
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Convex polygon
In geometry, a convex polygon is a polygon that is the boundary of a convex set. This means that the line segment between two points of the polygon is contained in the union of the interior and the boundary of the polygon. In particular, it is a ...
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Star polygon
In geometry, a star polygon is a type of non-convex polygon. Regular star polygons have been studied in depth; while star polygons in general appear not to have been formally defined, certain notable ones can arise through truncation operations ...
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Pentagram
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle aroun ...
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Regular polygon
In Euclidean geometry, a regular polygon is a polygon that is Equiangular polygon, direct equiangular (all angles are equal in measure) and Equilateral polygon, equilateral (all sides have the same length). Regular polygons may be either convex p ...
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Equilateral triangle
In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides have the same length. In the familiar Euclidean geometry, an equilateral triangle is also equiangular; that is, all three internal angles are also congruent to each othe ...
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Simplex
In geometry, a simplex (plural: simplexes or simplices) is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimensions. The simplex is so-named because it represents the simplest possible polytope in any given dimension. ...
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Square
In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length adj ...
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Cross-polytope
In geometry, a cross-polytope, hyperoctahedron, orthoplex, or cocube is a regular, convex polytope that exists in ''n''- dimensional Euclidean space. A 2-dimensional cross-polytope is a square, a 3-dimensional cross-polytope is a regular octahed ...
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Hypercube
In geometry, a hypercube is an ''n''-dimensional analogue of a square () and a cube (). It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1- skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, ...
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Pentagon
In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε ''pente'' meaning ''five'' and γωνία ''gonia'' meaning ''angle'') is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°.
A pentagon may be simpl ...
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Hexagon
In geometry, a hexagon (from Ancient Greek, Greek , , meaning "six", and , , meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon. The total of the internal angles of any simple polygon, simple (non-self-intersecting) hexagon is 720°.
Regular hexa ...
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Heptagon
In geometry, a heptagon or septagon is a seven-sided polygon or 7-gon.
The heptagon is sometimes referred to as the septagon, using "sept-" (an elision of ''septua-'', a Latin-derived numerical prefix, rather than ''hepta-'', a Greek-derived num ...
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Octagon
In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, whi ...
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Enneagon
In geometry, a nonagon () or enneagon () is a nine-sided polygon or 9-gon.
The name ''nonagon'' is a prefix hybrid formation, from Latin (''nonus'', "ninth" + ''gonon''), used equivalently, attested already in the 16th century in French ''nonogo ...
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Decagon
In geometry, a decagon (from the Greek δέκα ''déka'' and γωνία ''gonía,'' "ten angles") is a ten-sided polygon or 10-gon.. The total sum of the interior angles of a simple decagon is 1440°.
A self-intersecting ''regular decagon'' i ...
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Hendecagon
In geometry, a hendecagon (also undecagon or endecagon) or 11-gon is an eleven-sided polygon. (The name ''hendecagon'', from Greek ''hendeka'' "eleven" and ''–gon'' "corner", is often preferred to the hybrid ''undecagon'', whose first part is f ...
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Dodecagon
In geometry, a dodecagon or 12-gon is any twelve-sided polygon.
Regular dodecagon
A regular dodecagon is a figure with sides of the same length and internal angles of the same size. It has twelve lines of reflective symmetry and rotational sym ...
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Tridecagon
In geometry, a tridecagon or triskaidecagon or 13-gon is a thirteen-sided polygon.
Regular tridecagon
A '' regular tridecagon'' is represented by Schläfli symbol .
The measure of each internal angle of a regular tridecagon is approximately 1 ...
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Tetradecagon
In geometry, a tetradecagon or tetrakaidecagon or 14-gon is a fourteen-sided polygon.
Regular tetradecagon
A '' regular tetradecagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can be constructed as a quasiregular truncated heptagon, t, which alternates two t ...
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Pentadecagon
In geometry, a pentadecagon or pentakaidecagon or 15-gon is a fifteen-sided polygon.
Regular pentadecagon
A ''regular polygon, regular pentadecagon'' is represented by Schläfli symbol .
A Regular polygon, regular pentadecagon has interior angl ...
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Hexadecagon
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Heptadecagon
In geometry, a heptadecagon, septadecagon or 17-gon is a seventeen-sided polygon.
Regular heptadecagon
A '' regular heptadecagon'' is represented by the Schläfli symbol .
Construction
As 17 is a Fermat prime, the regular heptadecagon is a ...
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Octadecagon
In geometry, an octadecagon (or octakaidecagon) or 18-gon is an eighteen-sided polygon.
Regular octadecagon
A '' regular octadecagon'' has a Schläfli symbol and can be constructed as a quasiregular truncated enneagon, t, which alternates tw ...
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Enneadecagon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two to ...
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Icosagon
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Hectogon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two tog ...
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Chiliagon
In geometry, a chiliagon () or 1000-gon is a polygon with 1,000 sides. Philosophers commonly refer to chiliagons to illustrate ideas about the nature and workings of thought, meaning, and mental representation.
Regular chiliagon
A '' regular c ...
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Regular polygon
In Euclidean geometry, a regular polygon is a polygon that is Equiangular polygon, direct equiangular (all angles are equal in measure) and Equilateral polygon, equilateral (all sides have the same length). Regular polygons may be either convex p ...
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Monogon
In geometry, a monogon, also known as a henagon, is a polygon with one edge and one vertex. It has Schläfli symbol .Coxeter, ''Introduction to geometry'', 1969, Second edition, sec 21.3 ''Regular maps'', p. 386-388
In Euclidean geometry
In Eucli ...
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Digon
In geometry, a digon is a polygon with two sides (edges) and two vertices. Its construction is degenerate in a Euclidean plane because either the two sides would coincide or one or both would have to be curved; however, it can be easily visua ...
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star polygon
In geometry, a star polygon is a type of non-convex polygon. Regular star polygons have been studied in depth; while star polygons in general appear not to have been formally defined, certain notable ones can arise through truncation operations ...
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Pentagram
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle aroun ...
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Heptagram
A heptagram, septagram, septegram or septogram is a seven-point star drawn with seven straight strokes.
The name ''heptagram'' combines a numeral prefix, ''hepta-'', with the Greek suffix ''-gram''. The ''-gram'' suffix derives from ''γρ ...
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Octagram
In geometry, an octagram is an eight-angled star polygon.
The name ''octagram'' combine a Greek numeral prefix, '' octa-'', with the Greek suffix '' -gram''. The ''-gram'' suffix derives from γραμμή (''grammḗ'') meaning "line".
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Enneagram
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Decagram
Tessellation
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Apeirogon
In geometry, an apeirogon () or infinite polygon is a generalized polygon with a countably infinite number of sides. Apeirogons are the two-dimensional case of infinite polytopes.
In some literature, the term "apeirogon" may refer only to the ...
Three-dimensional regular polytopes
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polyhedron
In geometry, a polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons; ) is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices.
A convex polyhedron is the convex hull of finitely many points, not all on th ...
Convex
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Platonic solid
In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges c ...
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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. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the o ...
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Simplex
In geometry, a simplex (plural: simplexes or simplices) is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimensions. The simplex is so-named because it represents the simplest possible polytope in any given dimension. ...
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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. Viewed from a corner it is a hexagon and its net is usually depicted as a cross.
The cube is the only r ...
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hypercube
In geometry, a hypercube is an ''n''-dimensional analogue of a square () and a cube (). It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1- skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, ...
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Octahedron
In geometry, an octahedron (plural: octahedra, octahedrons) is a polyhedron with eight faces. The term is most commonly used to refer to the regular octahedron, a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at ea ...
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Cross-polytope
In geometry, a cross-polytope, hyperoctahedron, orthoplex, or cocube is a regular, convex polytope that exists in ''n''- dimensional Euclidean space. A 2-dimensional cross-polytope is a square, a 3-dimensional cross-polytope is a regular octahed ...
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Dodecahedron
In geometry, a dodecahedron (Greek , from ''dōdeka'' "twelve" + ''hédra'' "base", "seat" or "face") or duodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces. The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron with regular pentagon ...
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Icosahedron
In geometry, an icosahedron ( or ) is a polyhedron with 20 faces. The name comes and . The plural can be either "icosahedra" () or "icosahedrons".
There are infinitely many non- similar shapes of icosahedra, some of them being more symmetrica ...
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hosohedron
In spherical geometry, an -gonal hosohedron is a tessellation of lunes on a spherical surface, such that each lune shares the same two polar opposite vertices.
A regular -gonal hosohedron has Schläfli symbol with each spherical lune hav ...
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dihedron
A dihedron is a type of polyhedron, made of two polygon faces which share the same set of ''n'' edges. In three-dimensional Euclidean space, it is degenerate if its faces are flat, while in three-dimensional spherical space, a dihedron with flat ...
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Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra
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Small stellated dodecahedron
In geometry, the small stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, named by Arthur Cayley, and with Schläfli symbol . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagrammic faces, with five pentagrams meeti ...
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Great dodecahedron
In geometry, the great dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol and Coxeter–Dynkin diagram of . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagonal faces (six pairs of parallel pentagon ...
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Great stellated dodecahedron
In geometry, the great stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra.
It is composed of 12 intersecting pentagrammic faces, with three pentagrams meeting at each ve ...
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Great icosahedron
In geometry, the great icosahedron is one of four Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra (nonconvex regular polyhedra), with Schläfli symbol and Coxeter-Dynkin diagram of . It is composed of 20 intersecting triangular faces, having five triangles meeti ...
Tessellations
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Square tiling
In geometry, the square tiling, square tessellation or square grid is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane. It has Schläfli symbol of meaning it has 4 squares around every vertex.
Conway called it a quadrille.
The internal angle of th ...
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Triangular tiling
In geometry, the triangular tiling or triangular tessellation is one of the three regular tilings of the Euclidean plane, and is the only such tiling where the constituent shapes are not parallelogons. Because the internal angle of the equilater ...
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Hexagonal tiling
In geometry, the hexagonal tiling or hexagonal tessellation is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane, in which exactly three hexagons meet at each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of or (as a truncated triangular tiling).
English mathemat ...
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Apeirogon
In geometry, an apeirogon () or infinite polygon is a generalized polygon with a countably infinite number of sides. Apeirogons are the two-dimensional case of infinite polytopes.
In some literature, the term "apeirogon" may refer only to the ...
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Dihedron
A dihedron is a type of polyhedron, made of two polygon faces which share the same set of ''n'' edges. In three-dimensional Euclidean space, it is degenerate if its faces are flat, while in three-dimensional spherical space, a dihedron with flat ...
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Lobachevski plane
In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai– Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry is replaced with:
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Hyperbolic tiling
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Order-7 heptagrammic tiling
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Heptagrammic-order heptagonal tiling
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Order-9 enneagrammic tiling
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Enneagrammic-order enneagonal tiling
Four-dimensional regular polytopes
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regular 4-polytope
In mathematics, a regular 4-polytope is a regular four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the regular polyhedra in three dimensions and the regular polygons in two dimensions.
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5-cell
In geometry, the 5-cell is the convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is a 5-vertex four-dimensional object bounded by five tetrahedral cells. It is also known as a C5, pentachoron, pentatope, pentahedroid, or tetrahedral pyramid. It i ...
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Simplex
In geometry, a simplex (plural: simplexes or simplices) is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimensions. The simplex is so-named because it represents the simplest possible polytope in any given dimension. ...
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8-cell
In geometry, a tesseract is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube; the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Just as the surface of the cube consists of six square faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of eigh ...
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Hypercube
In geometry, a hypercube is an ''n''-dimensional analogue of a square () and a cube (). It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1- skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, ...
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16-cell
In geometry, the 16-cell is the regular convex 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is one of the six regular convex 4-polytopes first described by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli in the mi ...
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Cross-polytope
In geometry, a cross-polytope, hyperoctahedron, orthoplex, or cocube is a regular, convex polytope that exists in ''n''- dimensional Euclidean space. A 2-dimensional cross-polytope is a square, a 3-dimensional cross-polytope is a regular octahed ...
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24-cell
In geometry, the 24-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called C24, or the icositetrachoron, octaplex (short for "octahedral complex"), icosatetrahedroid, oct ...
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120-cell
In geometry, the 120-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called a C120, dodecaplex (short for "dodecahedral complex"), hyperdodecahedron, polydodecahedron, heca ...
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600-cell
In geometry, the 600-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also known as the C600, hexacosichoron and hexacosihedroid. It is also called a tetraplex (abbreviated from " ...
Degenerate (spherical)
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Ditope
A dihedron is a type of polyhedron, made of two polygon faces which share the same set of ''n'' edges. In three-dimensional Euclidean space, it is degenerate if its faces are flat, while in three-dimensional spherical space, a dihedron with flat ...
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Hosotope
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3-sphere
In mathematics, a 3-sphere is a higher-dimensional analogue of a sphere. It may be embedded in 4-dimensional Euclidean space as the set of points equidistant from a fixed central point. Analogous to how the boundary of a ball in three dimensi ...
Non-convex
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regular 4-polytope
In mathematics, a regular 4-polytope is a regular four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the regular polyhedra in three dimensions and the regular polygons in two dimensions.
There are six convex and ten star regu ...
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Icosahedral 120-cell
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Small stellated 120-cell
In geometry, the small stellated 120-cell or stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
Related polytopes
It has the same edge arrangement as the great gr ...
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Great 120-cell
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Grand 120-cell
In geometry, the grand 120-cell or grand polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
It is one of four ''regular star 4-polytopes'' discovered by Ludwig Schläfli. It is n ...
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Great stellated 120-cell
In geometry, the great stellated 120-cell or great stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
It is one of four ''regular star 4-polytopes'' discovered by Lu ...
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Grand stellated 120-cell
In geometry, the grand stellated 120-cell or grand stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
It is also one of two such polytopes that is self-dual.
Rela ...
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Great grand 120-cell
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Great icosahedral 120-cell
In geometry, the great icosahedral 120-cell, great polyicosahedron or great faceted 600-cell is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
Related polytopes
It has the same edge arran ...
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Grand 600-cell
In geometry, the grand 600-cell or grand polytetrahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes. It is the only one with 600 cells.
It is one of four ''regular star 4-polytopes'' dis ...
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Great grand stellated 120-cell
In geometry, the great grand stellated 120-cell or great grand stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol , one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess 4-polytopes. It is unique among the 10 for having 600 vertices, and ...
Tessellations of Euclidean 3-space
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Honeycomb
A honeycomb is a mass of Triangular prismatic honeycomb#Hexagonal prismatic honeycomb, hexagonal prismatic Beeswax, wax cells built by honey bees in their beehive, nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen.
beekeeping, Beekee ...
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Cubic honeycomb
The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a re ...
Degenerate tessellations of Euclidean 3-space
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Hosohedron
In spherical geometry, an -gonal hosohedron is a tessellation of lunes on a spherical surface, such that each lune shares the same two polar opposite vertices.
A regular -gonal hosohedron has Schläfli symbol with each spherical lune hav ...
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Dihedron
A dihedron is a type of polyhedron, made of two polygon faces which share the same set of ''n'' edges. In three-dimensional Euclidean space, it is degenerate if its faces are flat, while in three-dimensional spherical space, a dihedron with flat ...
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Order-2 apeirogonal tiling
In geometry, an order-2 apeirogonal tiling, apeirogonal dihedron, or infinite dihedronConway (2008), p. 263 is a tiling of the plane consisting of two apeirogons. It may be considered an improper regular tiling of the Euclidean plane, with Schl ...
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Apeirogonal hosohedron
In geometry, an apeirogonal hosohedron or infinite hosohedronConway (2008), p. 263 is a tiling of the plane consisting of two vertices at infinity. It may be considered an improper regular tiling of the Euclidean plane, with Schläfli symbol
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Order-4 square hosohedral honeycomb
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Order-6 triangular hosohedral honeycomb
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Hexagonal hosohedral honeycomb
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Order-2 square tiling honeycomb
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Order-2 triangular tiling honeycomb
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Order-2 hexagonal tiling honeycomb
Tessellations of hyperbolic 3-space
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Order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb
In hyperbolic geometry, the order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) of hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol it has four dodecahedra around each edge, and 8 dodecahedra aro ...
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Order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb
In hyperbolic geometry, the order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol it has five dodecahedral cells around each edge, and each vertex ...
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Order-5 cubic honeycomb
In hyperbolic geometry, the order-5 cubic honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol it has five cubes around each edge, and 20 cubes around each vertex. It ...
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Icosahedral honeycomb
In geometry, the icosahedral honeycomb is one of four compact, regular, space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol there are three icosahedra around each edge, and 12 icosahedra around each vertex ...
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Order-3 icosahedral honeycomb
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Order-4 octahedral honeycomb
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Triangular tiling honeycomb
The triangular tiling honeycomb is one of 11 paracompact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. It is called ''paracompact'' because it has infinite cells and vertex figures, with all vertices as ideal points a ...
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Square tiling honeycomb
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the square tiling honeycomb is one of 11 paracompact regular honeycombs. It is called ''paracompact'' because it has infinite cells, whose vertices exist on horospheres and converge to a single ideal poin ...
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Order-4 square tiling honeycomb
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-4 square tiling honeycomb is one of 11 paracompact regular honeycombs. It is ''paracompact'' because it has infinite cells and vertex figures, with all vertices as ideal points at infinity. Given by ...
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Order-6 tetrahedral honeycomb
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Order-6 cubic honeycomb
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Order-6 dodecahedral honeycomb
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Hexagonal tiling honeycomb
In the field of hyperbolic geometry, the hexagonal tiling honeycomb is one of 11 regular paracompact honeycombs in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. It is ''paracompact'' because it has cells composed of an infinite number of faces. Each cell is a ...
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Order-4 hexagonal tiling honeycomb
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Order-5 hexagonal tiling honeycomb
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Order-6 hexagonal tiling honeycomb
In the field of hyperbolic geometry, the order-6 hexagonal tiling honeycomb is one of 11 regular paracompact honeycombs in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. It is ''paracompact'' because it has cells with an infinite number of faces. Each cell is ...
Five-dimensional regular polytopes and higher
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5-polytope
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Honeycomb
A honeycomb is a mass of Triangular prismatic honeycomb#Hexagonal prismatic honeycomb, hexagonal prismatic Beeswax, wax cells built by honey bees in their beehive, nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen.
beekeeping, Beekee ...
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Tetracomb
Tessellations of Euclidean 4-space
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honeycombs
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Tesseractic honeycomb
In four-dimensional euclidean geometry, the tesseractic honeycomb is one of the three regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs), represented by Schläfli symbol , and constructed by a 4-dimensional packing of tesseract facets.
Its ver ...
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16-cell honeycomb
In Four-dimensional space, four-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the 16-cell honeycomb is one of the three regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycomb (geometry), honeycombs), represented by Schläfli symbol , and constructed by a 4-dimensiona ...
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24-cell honeycomb
In Four-dimensional space, four-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the 24-cell honeycomb, or icositetrachoric honeycomb is a regular polytope, regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb (geometry), honeycomb) of 4-dimensional Euclidean space by ...
Tessellations of Euclidean 5-space and higher
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Hypercubic honeycomb
In geometry, a hypercubic honeycomb is a family of regular honeycombs (tessellations) in -dimensional spaces with the Schläfli symbols and containing the symmetry of Coxeter group (or ) for .
The tessellation is constructed from 4 -hypercube ...
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Hypercube
In geometry, a hypercube is an ''n''-dimensional analogue of a square () and a cube (). It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1- skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, ...
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Square tiling
In geometry, the square tiling, square tessellation or square grid is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane. It has Schläfli symbol of meaning it has 4 squares around every vertex.
Conway called it a quadrille.
The internal angle of th ...
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Cubic honeycomb
The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a re ...
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Tesseractic honeycomb
In four-dimensional euclidean geometry, the tesseractic honeycomb is one of the three regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs), represented by Schläfli symbol , and constructed by a 4-dimensional packing of tesseract facets.
Its ver ...
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5-cube honeycomb
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6-cube honeycomb
The 6-cubic honeycomb or hexeractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 6-space.
It is analogous to the square tiling of the plane and to the cubic honeycomb of 3-space.
Constructions
There are m ...
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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 ...
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8-cube honeycomb
The 8-cubic honeycomb or octeractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 8-space.
It is analogous to the square tiling of the plane and to the cubic honeycomb of 3-space, and the tesseractic honeyc ...
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Hypercubic honeycomb
In geometry, a hypercubic honeycomb is a family of regular honeycombs (tessellations) in -dimensional spaces with the Schläfli symbols and containing the symmetry of Coxeter group (or ) for .
The tessellation is constructed from 4 -hypercube ...
Tessellations of hyperbolic 4-space
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honeycombs
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Order-5 5-cell honeycomb
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120-cell honeycomb
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Order-5 tesseractic honeycomb
In the geometry of Hyperbolic space, hyperbolic 4-space, the order-5 tesseractic honeycomb is one of five compact regular polytope, regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycomb (geometry), honeycombs). With Schläfli symbol , it has five 8-cel ...
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Order-4 120-cell honeycomb
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Order-5 120-cell honeycomb
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Order-4 24-cell honeycomb
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Cubic honeycomb honeycomb
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Small stellated 120-cell honeycomb
In the geometry of hyperbolic 4-space, the small stellated 120-cell honeycomb is one of four regular star- honeycombs. With Schläfli symbol , it has three small stellated 120-cells around each face. It is dual to the pentagrammic-order 600-ce ...
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Pentagrammic-order 600-cell honeycomb
In the geometry of hyperbolic 4-space, the pentagrammic-order 600-cell honeycomb is one of four regular star- honeycombs. With Schläfli symbol , it has five 600-cells around each face in a pentagrammic arrangement. It is dual to the small stell ...
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Order-5 icosahedral 120-cell honeycomb
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Great 120-cell honeycomb
Tessellations of hyperbolic 5-space
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5-orthoplex honeycomb
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24-cell honeycomb honeycomb
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16-cell honeycomb honeycomb
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Order-4 24-cell honeycomb honeycomb
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Tesseractic honeycomb honeycomb
Apeirotopes
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Apeirotope
In geometry, an apeirotope or infinite polytope is a generalized polytope which has infinitely many facets.
Definition Abstract apeirotope
An abstract ''n''-polytope is a partially ordered set ''P'' (whose elements are called ''faces'') such tha ...
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Apeirogon
In geometry, an apeirogon () or infinite polygon is a generalized polygon with a countably infinite number of sides. Apeirogons are the two-dimensional case of infinite polytopes.
In some literature, the term "apeirogon" may refer only to the ...
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Apeirohedron
In geometry, a skew apeirohedron is an infinite skew polyhedron consisting of nonplanar Face (geometry), faces or nonplanar vertex figures, allowing the figure to extend indefinitely without folding round to form a Surface (topology)#Closed_surfac ...
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Regular skew polyhedron
In geometry, the regular skew polyhedra are generalizations to the set of regular polyhedra which include the possibility of nonplanar faces or vertex figures. Coxeter looked at skew vertex figures which created new 4-dimensional regular polyhedra ...
Abstract polytopes
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Abstract polytope
In mathematics, an abstract polytope is an algebraic partially ordered set which captures the dyadic property of a traditional polytope without specifying purely geometric properties such as points and lines.
A geometric polytope is said to be ...
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11-cell
In mathematics, the 11-cell (or hendecachoron) is a self-dual abstract regular 4-polytope ( four-dimensional polytope). Its 11 cells are hemi-icosahedral. It has 11 vertices, 55 edges and 55 faces. It has Schläfli symbol , with 3 hemi-icosahedr ...
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57-cell
Non-regular polytopes
2D with 1D surface
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Convex polygon
In geometry, a convex polygon is a polygon that is the boundary of a convex set. This means that the line segment between two points of the polygon is contained in the union of the interior and the boundary of the polygon. In particular, it is a ...
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Concave polygon
A simple polygon that is not convex is called concave, non-convex or reentrant. A concave polygon will always have at least one reflex interior angle—that is, an angle with a measure that is between 180 degrees and 360 degrees exclusive.
Polyg ...
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Constructible polygon
In mathematics, a constructible polygon is a regular polygon that can be constructed with compass and straightedge. For example, a regular pentagon is constructible with compass and straightedge while a regular heptagon is not. There are infinite ...
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Cyclic polygon
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every polyg ...
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Equiangular polygon
In Euclidean geometry, an equiangular polygon is a polygon whose vertex angles are equal. If the lengths of the sides are also equal (that is, if it is also equilateral) then it is a regular polygon. Isogonal polygons are equiangular polygons which ...
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Equilateral polygon
In geometry, an equilateral polygon is a polygon which has all sides of the same length. Except in the triangle case, an equilateral polygon does not need to also be equiangular (have all angles equal), but if it does then it is a regular polygon ...
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Regular polygon
In Euclidean geometry, a regular polygon is a polygon that is Equiangular polygon, direct equiangular (all angles are equal in measure) and Equilateral polygon, equilateral (all sides have the same length). Regular polygons may be either convex p ...
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Penrose tile
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Polyform
In recreational mathematics, a polyform is a plane (mathematics), plane figure or solid compound constructed by joining together identical basic polygons. The basic polygon is often (but not necessarily) a convex polygon, convex plane-filling pol ...
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Balbis
In geometry, a balbis is a geometric shape that can be colloquially defined as a single (primary) line that is terminated by a (secondary) line at one endpoint and by a (secondary) line at the other endpoint. The terminating secondary lines are a ...
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Gnomon
A gnomon (; ) is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The term is used for a variety of purposes in mathematics and other fields.
History
A painted stick dating from 2300 BC that was excavated at the astronomical site of Taosi is the ol ...
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Golygon
A golygon, or more generally a serial isogon of 90°, is any polygon with all right angles (a rectilinear polygon) whose sides are consecutive integer lengths. Golygons were invented and named by Lee Sallows, and popularized by A.K. Dewdney in a ...
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Star
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by its gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked ...
without crossing lines
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Star polygon
In geometry, a star polygon is a type of non-convex polygon. Regular star polygons have been studied in depth; while star polygons in general appear not to have been formally defined, certain notable ones can arise through truncation operations ...
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Hexagram
, can be seen as a compound composed of an upwards (blue here) and downwards (pink) facing equilateral triangle, with their intersection as a regular hexagon (in green).
A hexagram ( Greek language, Greek) or sexagram (Latin) is a six-pointed ...
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Star of David
The Star of David (). is a generally recognized symbol of both Jewish identity and Judaism. Its shape is that of a hexagram: the compound of two equilateral triangles.
A derivation of the ''seal of Solomon'', which was used for decorative ...
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Heptagram
A heptagram, septagram, septegram or septogram is a seven-point star drawn with seven straight strokes.
The name ''heptagram'' combines a numeral prefix, ''hepta-'', with the Greek suffix ''-gram''. The ''-gram'' suffix derives from ''γρ ...
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Octagram
In geometry, an octagram is an eight-angled star polygon.
The name ''octagram'' combine a Greek numeral prefix, '' octa-'', with the Greek suffix '' -gram''. The ''-gram'' suffix derives from γραμμή (''grammḗ'') meaning "line".
Detai ...
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Star of Lakshmi
The Star of Lakshmi is a special octagram, a regular compound polygon, represented by Schläfli symbol or 2, made from two congruent squares with the same center at 45° angles, and figures in Hinduism, commonly misattributed to ''Ashtalakshmi' ...
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Decagram
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Pentagram
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle aroun ...
Polygons named for their number of sides
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Monogon
In geometry, a monogon, also known as a henagon, is a polygon with one edge and one vertex. It has Schläfli symbol .Coxeter, ''Introduction to geometry'', 1969, Second edition, sec 21.3 ''Regular maps'', p. 386-388
In Euclidean geometry
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Digon
In geometry, a digon is a polygon with two sides (edges) and two vertices. Its construction is degenerate in a Euclidean plane because either the two sides would coincide or one or both would have to be curved; however, it can be easily visua ...
— 2 sided
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Triangle
A triangle is a polygon with three Edge (geometry), edges and three Vertex (geometry), vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'' is denoted \triangle ABC.
In Euclidean geometry, an ...
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Acute triangle
An acute triangle (or acute-angled triangle) is a triangle with three acute angles (less than 90°). An obtuse triangle (or obtuse-angled triangle) is a triangle with one obtuse angle (greater than 90°) and two acute angles. Since a triangle's ang ...
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Equilateral triangle
In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides have the same length. In the familiar Euclidean geometry, an equilateral triangle is also equiangular; that is, all three internal angles are also congruent to each othe ...
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Isosceles triangle
In geometry, an isosceles triangle () is a triangle that has two sides of equal length. Sometimes it is specified as having ''exactly'' two sides of equal length, and sometimes as having ''at least'' two sides of equal length, the latter versio ...
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Obtuse triangle
An acute triangle (or acute-angled triangle) is a triangle with three acute angles (less than 90°). An obtuse triangle (or obtuse-angled triangle) is a triangle with one obtuse angle (greater than 90°) and two acute angles. Since a triangle's ang ...
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Rational triangle
An integer triangle or integral triangle is a triangle all of whose sides have lengths that are integers. A rational triangle can be defined as one having all sides with rational length; any such rational triangle can be integrally rescaled (ca ...
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Right triangle
A right triangle (American English) or right-angled triangle (British), or more formally an orthogonal triangle, formerly called a rectangled triangle ( grc, ὀρθόσγωνία, lit=upright angle), is a triangle in which one angle is a right an ...
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30-60-90 triangle
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Isosceles right triangle
A special right triangle is a right triangle with some regular feature that makes calculations on the triangle easier, or for which simple formulas exist. For example, a right triangle may have angles that form simple relationships, such as 45° ...
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Kepler triangle
A Kepler triangle is a special right triangle with edge lengths in geometric progression. The ratio of the progression is \sqrt\varphi where \varphi=(1+\sqrt)/2 is the golden ratio, and the progression can be written: or approximately . Squares ...
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Scalene triangle
A triangle is a polygon with three edges and three vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'' is denoted \triangle ABC.
In Euclidean geometry, any three points, when non-collinear ...
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Quadrilateral
In geometry a quadrilateral is a four-sided polygon, having four edges (sides) and four corners (vertices). The word is derived from the Latin words ''quadri'', a variant of four, and ''latus'', meaning "side". It is also called a tetragon, ...
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Cyclic quadrilateral
In Euclidean geometry, a cyclic quadrilateral or inscribed quadrilateral is a quadrilateral whose vertices all lie on a single circle. This circle is called the ''circumcircle'' or ''circumscribed circle'', and the vertices are said to be ''c ...
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square
In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length adj ...
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kite
A kite is a tethered heavier than air flight, heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create Lift (force), lift and Drag (physics), drag forces. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors. ...
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Parallelogram
In Euclidean geometry, a parallelogram is a simple (non- self-intersecting) quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides. The opposite or facing sides of a parallelogram are of equal length and the opposite angles of a parallelogram are of equa ...
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Rhombus
In plane Euclidean geometry, a rhombus (plural rhombi or rhombuses) is a quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length. Another name is equilateral quadrilateral, since equilateral means that all of its sides are equal in length. The ...
(equilateral parallelogram)
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Lozenge
Lozenge or losange may refer to:
* Lozenge (shape), a type of rhombus
*Throat lozenge, a tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to suppress throat ailments
*Lozenge (heraldry), a diamond-shaped object that can be placed on the field of ...
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Rhomboid
Traditionally, in two-dimensional geometry, a rhomboid is a parallelogram in which adjacent sides are of unequal lengths and angles are non-right angled.
A parallelogram with sides of equal length (equilateral) is a rhombus but not a rhomboid.
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Rectangle
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°); or a parallelogram containi ...
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square
In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length adj ...
(regular quadrilateral)
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Tangential quadrilateral
In Euclidean geometry, a tangential quadrilateral (sometimes just tangent quadrilateral) or circumscribed quadrilateral is a convex quadrilateral whose sides all can be tangent to a single circle within the quadrilateral. This circle is called the ...
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Trapezoid
A quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides is called a trapezoid () in American and Canadian English. In British and other forms of English, it is called a trapezium ().
A trapezoid is necessarily a Convex polygon, convex quadri ...
or trapezium
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Isosceles trapezoid
In Euclidean geometry, an isosceles trapezoid (isosceles trapezium in British English) is a convex quadrilateral with a line of symmetry bisecting one pair of opposite sides. It is a special case of a trapezoid. Alternatively, it can be defined ...
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Pentagon
In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε ''pente'' meaning ''five'' and γωνία ''gonia'' meaning ''angle'') is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°.
A pentagon may be simpl ...
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Regular pentagon
In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε ''pente'' meaning ''five'' and γωνία ''gonia'' meaning ''angle'') is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°.
A pentagon may be simpl ...
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Hexagon
In geometry, a hexagon (from Ancient Greek, Greek , , meaning "six", and , , meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon. The total of the internal angles of any simple polygon, simple (non-self-intersecting) hexagon is 720°.
Regular hexa ...
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Lemoine hexagon
In geometry, the Lemoine hexagon is a cyclic hexagon with vertices given by the six intersections of the edges of a triangle and the three lines that are parallel to the edges that pass through its symmedian point. There are two definitions of th ...
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Heptagon
In geometry, a heptagon or septagon is a seven-sided polygon or 7-gon.
The heptagon is sometimes referred to as the septagon, using "sept-" (an elision of ''septua-'', a Latin-derived numerical prefix, rather than ''hepta-'', a Greek-derived num ...
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Octagon
In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, whi ...
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Regular octagon
In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, whi ...
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Nonagon
In geometry, a nonagon () or enneagon () is a nine-sided polygon or 9-gon.
The name ''nonagon'' is a prefix hybrid formation, from Latin (''nonus'', "ninth" + ''gonon''), used equivalently, attested already in the 16th century in French ''nonogo ...
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Decagon
In geometry, a decagon (from the Greek δέκα ''déka'' and γωνία ''gonía,'' "ten angles") is a ten-sided polygon or 10-gon.. The total sum of the interior angles of a simple decagon is 1440°.
A self-intersecting ''regular decagon'' i ...
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Regular decagon
In geometry, a decagon (from the Greek δέκα ''déka'' and γωνία ''gonía,'' "ten angles") is a ten-sided polygon or 10-gon.. The total sum of the interior angles of a simple decagon is 1440°.
A self-intersecting ''regular decagon'' i ...
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Hendecagon
In geometry, a hendecagon (also undecagon or endecagon) or 11-gon is an eleven-sided polygon. (The name ''hendecagon'', from Greek ''hendeka'' "eleven" and ''–gon'' "corner", is often preferred to the hybrid ''undecagon'', whose first part is f ...
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Dodecagon
In geometry, a dodecagon or 12-gon is any twelve-sided polygon.
Regular dodecagon
A regular dodecagon is a figure with sides of the same length and internal angles of the same size. It has twelve lines of reflective symmetry and rotational sym ...
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Triskaidecagon
In geometry, a tridecagon or triskaidecagon or 13-gon is a thirteen-sided polygon.
Regular tridecagon
A '' regular tridecagon'' is represented by Schläfli symbol .
The measure of each internal angle of a regular tridecagon is approximately 1 ...
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Tetradecagon
In geometry, a tetradecagon or tetrakaidecagon or 14-gon is a fourteen-sided polygon.
Regular tetradecagon
A '' regular tetradecagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can be constructed as a quasiregular truncated heptagon, t, which alternates two t ...
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Pentadecagon
In geometry, a pentadecagon or pentakaidecagon or 15-gon is a fifteen-sided polygon.
Regular pentadecagon
A ''regular polygon, regular pentadecagon'' is represented by Schläfli symbol .
A Regular polygon, regular pentadecagon has interior angl ...
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Hexadecagon
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Heptadecagon
In geometry, a heptadecagon, septadecagon or 17-gon is a seventeen-sided polygon.
Regular heptadecagon
A '' regular heptadecagon'' is represented by the Schläfli symbol .
Construction
As 17 is a Fermat prime, the regular heptadecagon is a ...
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Octadecagon
In geometry, an octadecagon (or octakaidecagon) or 18-gon is an eighteen-sided polygon.
Regular octadecagon
A '' regular octadecagon'' has a Schläfli symbol and can be constructed as a quasiregular truncated enneagon, t, which alternates tw ...
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Enneadecagon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two to ...
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Icosagon
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Triacontagon
In geometry, a triacontagon or 30-gon is a thirty-sided polygon. The sum of any triacontagon's interior angles is 5040 degrees.
Regular triacontagon
The '' regular triacontagon'' is a constructible polygon, by an edge- bisection of a regular ...
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Tetracontagon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two tog ...
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Pentacontagon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two to ...
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Hexacontagon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two tog ...
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Heptacontagon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane (mathematics), plane Shape, figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region (mathemati ...
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Octacontagon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two to ...
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Enneacontagon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two tog ...
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Hectogon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two tog ...
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257-gon
In geometry, a 257-gon is a polygon with 257 sides. The sum of the interior angles of any non- self-intersecting 257-gon is 45,900°.
Regular 257-gon
The area of a regular 257-gon is (with )
:A = \frac t^2 \cot \frac\approx 5255.751t^2.
A who ...
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Chiliagon
In geometry, a chiliagon () or 1000-gon is a polygon with 1,000 sides. Philosophers commonly refer to chiliagons to illustrate ideas about the nature and workings of thought, meaning, and mental representation.
Regular chiliagon
A '' regular c ...
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Myriagon
In geometry, a myriagon or 10000-gon is a polygon with 10,000 sides. Several philosophers have used the regular myriagon to illustrate issues regarding thought. Meditation VI by Descartes (English translation).
Regular myriagon
A regular myriag ...
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65537-gon
In geometry, a 65537-gon is a polygon with 65,537 (216 + 1) sides. The sum of the interior angles of any non–list of self-intersecting polygons, self-intersecting is 11796300°.
Regular 65537-gon
The area of a ''regular '' is (with )
:A = \f ...
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Megagon
A megagon or 1,000,000-gon is a polygon with one million sides (mega-, from the Greek μέγας, meaning "great", being a unit prefix denoting a factor of one million).
Regular megagon
A Regular polygon, regular megagon is represented by the ...
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Apeirogon
In geometry, an apeirogon () or infinite polygon is a generalized polygon with a countably infinite number of sides. Apeirogons are the two-dimensional case of infinite polytopes.
In some literature, the term "apeirogon" may refer only to the ...
Tilings
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List of uniform tilings
This table shows the 11 convex uniform tilings (regular and semiregular) of the Euclidean plane, and their dual tilings.
There are three regular and eight semiregular tilings in the plane. The semiregular tilings form new tilings from their dual ...
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Uniform tilings in hyperbolic plane
In hyperbolic geometry, a uniform hyperbolic tiling (or regular, quasiregular or semiregular hyperbolic tiling) is an edge-to-edge filling of the hyperbolic plane which has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive ( transitive on its v ...
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Archimedean tiling
Euclidean plane tilings by convex regular polygons have been widely used since antiquity. The first systematic mathematical treatment was that of Kepler in his ''Harmonices Mundi'' (Latin: ''The Harmony of the World'', 1619).
Notation of Eucli ...
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Square tiling
In geometry, the square tiling, square tessellation or square grid is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane. It has Schläfli symbol of meaning it has 4 squares around every vertex.
Conway called it a quadrille.
The internal angle of th ...
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Triangular tiling
In geometry, the triangular tiling or triangular tessellation is one of the three regular tilings of the Euclidean plane, and is the only such tiling where the constituent shapes are not parallelogons. Because the internal angle of the equilater ...
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Hexagonal tiling
In geometry, the hexagonal tiling or hexagonal tessellation is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane, in which exactly three hexagons meet at each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of or (as a truncated triangular tiling).
English mathemat ...
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Truncated square tiling
In geometry, the truncated square tiling is a semiregular tiling, semiregular tiling by regular polygons of the Euclidean plane with one square (geometry), square and two octagons on each vertex (geometry), vertex. This is the only edge-to-edge ti ...
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Snub square tiling
In geometry, the snub square tiling is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are three triangles and two squares on each vertex. Its Schläfli symbol is ''s''.
Conway calls it a snub quadrille, constructed by a snub operation applie ...
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Trihexagonal tiling
In geometry, the trihexagonal tiling is one of 11 uniform tilings of the Euclidean plane by regular polygons. See in particular Theorem 2.1.3, p. 59 (classification of uniform tilings); Figure 2.1.5, p.63 (illustration of this tiling), Theorem 2. ...
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Truncated hexagonal tiling
In geometry, the truncated hexagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are 2 dodecagons (12-sides) and one triangle on each vertex.
As the name implies this tiling is constructed by a truncation operation applies to a he ...
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Rhombitrihexagonal tiling
In geometry, the rhombitrihexagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are one triangle, two squares, and one hexagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of rr.
John Conway calls it a rhombihexadeltille.Conway, 2 ...
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Truncated trihexagonal tiling
In geometry, the truncated trihexagonal tiling is one of eight semiregular tilings of the Euclidean plane. There are one square, one hexagon, and one dodecagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of ''tr''.
Names
Uniform colorings
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Snub hexagonal tiling
In geometry, the snub hexagonal tiling (or ''snub trihexagonal tiling'') is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are four triangles and one hexagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol ''sr''. The snub tetrahexagonal tiling is a ...
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Elongated triangular tiling
In geometry, the elongated triangular tiling is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are three triangles and two squares on each vertex. It is named as a triangular tiling elongated by rows of squares, and given Schläfli symbol :e. ...
Uniform polyhedra
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Regular polyhedron
A regular polyhedron is a polyhedron whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags. A regular polyhedron is highly symmetrical, being all of edge-transitive, vertex-transitive and face-transitive. In classical contexts, many different equival ...
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Platonic solid
In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges c ...
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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. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the o ...
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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. Viewed from a corner it is a hexagon and its net is usually depicted as a cross.
The cube is the only r ...
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Octahedron
In geometry, an octahedron (plural: octahedra, octahedrons) is a polyhedron with eight faces. The term is most commonly used to refer to the regular octahedron, a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at ea ...
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Dodecahedron
In geometry, a dodecahedron (Greek , from ''dōdeka'' "twelve" + ''hédra'' "base", "seat" or "face") or duodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces. The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron with regular pentagon ...
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Icosahedron
In geometry, an icosahedron ( or ) is a polyhedron with 20 faces. The name comes and . The plural can be either "icosahedra" () or "icosahedrons".
There are infinitely many non- similar shapes of icosahedra, some of them being more symmetrica ...
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Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron
In geometry, a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron is any of four regular star polyhedra.
They may be obtained by stellating the regular convex dodecahedron and icosahedron, and differ from these in having regular pentagrammic faces or vertex figures. ...
(regular star polyhedra)
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Great icosahedron
In geometry, the great icosahedron is one of four Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra (nonconvex regular polyhedra), with Schläfli symbol and Coxeter-Dynkin diagram of . It is composed of 20 intersecting triangular faces, having five triangles meeti ...
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Small stellated dodecahedron
In geometry, the small stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, named by Arthur Cayley, and with Schläfli symbol . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagrammic faces, with five pentagrams meeti ...
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Great dodecahedron
In geometry, the great dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol and Coxeter–Dynkin diagram of . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagonal faces (six pairs of parallel pentagon ...
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Great stellated dodecahedron
In geometry, the great stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra.
It is composed of 12 intersecting pentagrammic faces, with three pentagrams meeting at each ve ...
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Projective polyhedron
In geometry, a (globally) projective polyhedron is a tessellation of the real projective plane. These are projective analogs of spherical polyhedra – tessellations of the sphere – and toroidal polyhedra – tessellations of the toroids.
Projec ...
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Hemicube Hemicube can mean:
* Hemicube (technology company), a company based in Dubai that develops advanced technology solutions.
* Hemicube (computer graphics), a concept in 3D computer graphics rendering
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Hemi-octahedron
A hemi-octahedron is an abstract regular polyhedron, containing half the faces of a regular octahedron.
It has 4 triangular faces, 6 edges, and 3 vertices. Its dual polyhedron is the hemicube.
It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tes ...
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Hemi-dodecahedron
A hemi-dodecahedron is an abstract regular polyhedron, containing half the faces of a regular dodecahedron. It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tessellation of the real projective plane by 6 pentagons), which can be visualized by const ...
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Hemi-icosahedron
A hemi-icosahedron is an abstract regular polyhedron, containing half the faces of a regular icosahedron. It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tessellation of the real projective plane by 10 triangles), which can be visualized by constr ...
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Archimedean solid
In geometry, an Archimedean solid is one of the 13 solids first enumerated by Archimedes. They are the convex uniform polyhedra composed of regular polygons meeting in identical vertices, excluding the five Platonic solids (which are composed ...
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Truncated tetrahedron
In geometry, the truncated tetrahedron is an Archimedean solid. It has 4 regular hexagonal faces, 4 equilateral triangle faces, 12 vertices and 18 edges (of two types). It can be constructed by truncating all 4 vertices of a regular tetrahedro ...
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Cuboctahedron
A cuboctahedron is a polyhedron with 8 triangular faces and 6 square faces. A cuboctahedron has 12 identical vertices, with 2 triangles and 2 squares meeting at each, and 24 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a square. As such, it ...
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Truncated cube
In geometry, the truncated cube, or truncated hexahedron, is an Archimedean solid. It has 14 regular faces (6 octagonal and 8 triangular), 36 edges, and 24 vertices.
If the truncated cube has unit edge length, its dual triakis octahedron has edg ...
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Truncated octahedron
In geometry, the truncated octahedron is the Archimedean solid that arises from a regular octahedron by removing six pyramids, one at each of the octahedron's vertices. The truncated octahedron has 14 faces (8 regular hexagon, hexagons and 6 Squa ...
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Rhombicuboctahedron
In geometry, the rhombicuboctahedron, or small rhombicuboctahedron, is a polyhedron with eight triangular, six square, and twelve rectangular faces. There are 24 identical vertices, with one triangle, one square, and two rectangles meeting at eac ...
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Truncated cuboctahedron
In geometry, the truncated cuboctahedron is an Archimedean solid, named by Kepler as a truncation of a cuboctahedron. It has 12 square faces, 8 regular hexagonal faces, 6 regular octagonal faces, 48 vertices, and 72 edges. Since each of its fac ...
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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. It has 60 edges and 24 vertices.
It is a chiral polyhedron; that is, it has two distinct forms, which are mirr ...
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Icosidodecahedron
In geometry, an icosidodecahedron is a polyhedron with twenty (''icosi'') triangular faces and twelve (''dodeca'') pentagonal faces. An icosidodecahedron has 30 identical vertices, with two triangles and two pentagons meeting at each, and 60 id ...
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Truncated dodecahedron
In geometry, the truncated dodecahedron is an Archimedean solid. It has 12 regular decagonal faces, 20 regular triangular faces, 60 vertices and 90 edges.
Geometric relations
This polyhedron can be formed from a regular dodecahedron by truncat ...
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Truncated icosahedron
In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is an Archimedean solid, one of 13 convex isogonal nonprismatic solids whose 32 faces are two or more types of regular polygons. It is the only one of these shapes that does not contain triangles or squares. ...
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Rhombicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the rhombicosidodecahedron is an Archimedean solid, one of thirteen convex isogonal nonprismatic solids constructed of two or more types of regular polygon faces.
It has 20 regular triangular faces, 30 square (geometry), square face ...
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Truncated icosidodecahedron
In geometry, a truncated icosidodecahedron, rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron,Wenninger Model Number 16 great rhombicosidodecahedron,Williams (Section 3-9, p. 94)Cromwell (p. 82) omnitruncated dodecahedron or omnitruncated icosahedronNorman Wooda ...
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Snub dodecahedron
In geometry, the snub dodecahedron, or snub icosidodecahedron, is an Archimedean solid, one of thirteen convex isogonal nonprismatic solids constructed by two or more types of regular polygon faces.
The snub dodecahedron has 92 faces (the most ...
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Prismatic uniform polyhedron
In geometry, a prismatic uniform polyhedron is a uniform polyhedron with dihedral symmetry. They exist in two infinite families, the uniform prisms and the uniform antiprisms. All have their vertices in parallel planes and are therefore prismatoi ...
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Prism
Prism usually refers to:
* Prism (optics), a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light
* Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron
Prism may also refer to:
Science and mathematics
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Antiprism
In geometry, an antiprism or is a polyhedron composed of two parallel direct copies (not mirror images) of an polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. They are represented by the Conway notation .
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Uniform star polyhedron
In geometry, a uniform star polyhedron is a self-intersecting uniform polyhedron. They are also sometimes called nonconvex polyhedra to imply self-intersecting. Each polyhedron can contain either star polygon faces, star polygon vertex figures, ...
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Cubitruncated cuboctahedron
In geometry, the cubitruncated cuboctahedron or cuboctatruncated cuboctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U16. It has 20 faces (8 hexagons, 6 octagons, and 6 octagrams), 72 edges, and 48 vertices, and has a shäfli symbol of tr ...
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Cubohemioctahedron
In geometry, the cubohemioctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U15. It has 10 faces (6 squares and 4 regular hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.
It is given Wythoff symbol 4 , 3 ...
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Ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron
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Dodecadodecahedron
In geometry, the dodecadodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U36. It is the rectification of the great dodecahedron (and that of its dual, the small stellated dodecahedron). It was discovered independently by , and .
The e ...
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Great cubicuboctahedron
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Great dirhombicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great dirhombicosidodecahedron (or great snub disicosidisdodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed last as . It has 124 faces (40 triangles, 60 squares, and 24 pentagrams), 240 edges, and 60 vertices.
This is ...
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Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron
In geometry, the great disnub dirhombidodecahedron, also called ''Skilling's figure'', is a degenerate uniform star polyhedron.
It was proven in 1970 that there are only 75 uniform polyhedra other than the infinite families of prisms and antipr ...
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Great ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron (or great dodekified icosidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U42. It has 44 faces (20 triangles, 12 pentagons, and 12 decagrams), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its v ...
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Great ditrigonal icosidodecahedron
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Great dodecahemicosahedron
In geometry, the great dodecahemicosahedron (or small dodecahemiicosahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U65. It has 22 faces (12 pentagons and 10 hexagons), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilatera ...
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Great dodecahemidodecahedron
In geometry, the great dodecahemidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U70. It has 18 faces (12 Pentagram, pentagrams and 6 Decagram (geometry), decagrams), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. Its vertex figure is a quadrilateral#More ...
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Great dodecicosahedron
In geometry, the great dodecicosahedron (or great dodekicosahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U63. It has 32 faces (20 hexagons and 12 decagrams), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.
It ...
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Great dodecicosidodecahedron
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Great icosicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great icosicosidodecahedron (or great icosified icosidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U48. It has 52 faces (20 triangles, 12 pentagrams, and 20 hexagons), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure ...
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Great icosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great icosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U54. It has 32 faces (20 triangles and 12 pentagrams), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. It is given a Schläfli symbol r. It is the rectification of the great stell ...
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Great icosihemidodecahedron
In geometry, the great icosihemidodecahedron (or great icosahemidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U71. It has 26 faces (20 triangles and 6 decagrams), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilat ...
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Great inverted snub icosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great inverted snub icosidodecahedron (or great vertisnub icosidodecahedron) is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U69. It is given a Schläfli symbol sr, and Coxeter-Dynkin diagram . In the book '' Polyhedron Models'' by M ...
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Great retrosnub icosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great retrosnub icosidodecahedron or great inverted retrosnub icosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as . It has 92 faces (80 triangles and 12 pentagrams), 150 edges, and 60 vertices. It is given a Schlä ...
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Great rhombidodecahedron
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Great rhombihexahedron
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Great snub dodecicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great snub dodecicosidodecahedron (or great snub dodekicosidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U64. It has 104 faces (80 triangles and 24 pentagrams), 180 edges, and 60 vertices. It has Coxeter diagram, . ...
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Great snub icosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great snub icosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U57. It has 92 faces (80 triangles and 12 pentagrams), 150 edges, and 60 vertices. It can be represented by a Schläfli symbol sr, and Coxeter-Dynkin d ...
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Great stellated truncated dodecahedron
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Great truncated cuboctahedron
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Great truncated icosidodecahedron
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Icosidodecadodecahedron
In geometry, the icosidodecadodecahedron (or icosified dodecadodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U44. It has 44 faces (12 pentagons, 12 pentagrams and 20 hexagons), 120 edges and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a cros ...
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Icositruncated dodecadodecahedron
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Inverted snub dodecadodecahedron
In geometry, the inverted snub dodecadodecahedron (or vertisnub dodecadodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U60. It is given a Schläfli symbol sr.
Cartesian coordinates
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of an invert ...
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Nonconvex great rhombicosidodecahedron
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Nonconvex great rhombicuboctahedron
In geometry, the nonconvex great rhombicuboctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U17. It has 26 faces (8 triangles and 18 squares), 48 edges, and 24 vertices. It is represented by the Schläfli symbol rr and Coxeter-Dynkin di ...
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Octahemioctahedron
In geometry, the octahemioctahedron or allelotetratetrahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as . It has 12 faces (8 triangles and 4 hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.
It is one of n ...
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Rhombicosahedron
In geometry, the rhombicosahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U56. It has 50 faces (30 squares and 20 hexagons), 120 edges and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is an antiparallelogram.
Related polyhedra
A rhombicosahedron shar ...
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Rhombidodecadodecahedron
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Small cubicuboctahedron
In geometry, the small cubicuboctahedron is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U13. It has 20 faces (8 triangles, 6 squares, and 6 octagons), 48 edges, and 24 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.
The small cubicuboctahedro ...
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Small ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the small ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron (or small dodekified icosidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U43. It has 44 faces (20 triangles, 12 pentagrams and 12 decagons), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its ver ...
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Small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron
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Small dodecahemicosahedron
In geometry, the small dodecahemicosahedron (or great dodecahemiicosahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U62. It has 22 faces (12 pentagrams and 10 hexagons), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilater ...
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Small dodecahemidodecahedron
In geometry, the small dodecahemidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as . It has 18 faces (12 Pentagon, pentagons and 6 Decagon, decagons), 60 Edge (geometry), edges, and 30 Vertex (geometry), vertices. Its vertex figure alte ...
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Small dodecicosahedron
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Small dodecicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the small dodecicosidodecahedron (or small dodekicosidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U33. It has 44 faces (20 triangles, 12 pentagons, and 12 decagons), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a ...
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Small icosicosidodecahedron
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Small icosihemidodecahedron
In geometry, the small icosihemidodecahedron (or small icosahemidodecahedron) is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as . It has 26 faces (20 triangles and 6 decagons), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. Its vertex figure alternates two regular triang ...
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Small retrosnub icosicosidodecahedron
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Small rhombidodecahedron
In geometry, the small rhombidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U39. It has 42 faces (30 squares and 12 decagons), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.
Related polyhedra
It shares ...
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Small rhombihexahedron
In geometry, the small rhombihexahedron (or small rhombicube) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U18. It has 18 faces (12 squares and 6 octagons), 48 edges, and 24 vertices. Its vertex figure is an antiparallelogram.
Related polyhedr ...
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Small snub icosicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the small snub icosicosidodecahedron or snub disicosidodecahedron is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U32. It has 112 faces (100 triangles and 12 pentagrams), 180 edges, and 60 vertices. Its stellation core is a truncated penta ...
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Small stellated truncated dodecahedron
In geometry, the small stellated truncated dodecahedron (or quasitruncated small stellated dodecahedron or small stellatruncated dodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U58. It has 24 faces (12 pentagons and 12 decagrams), 90 ...
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Snub dodecadodecahedron
In geometry, the snub dodecadodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as . It has 84 faces (60 triangles, 12 pentagons, and 12 pentagrams), 150 edges, and 60 vertices. It is given a Schläfli symbol as a snub great dodecahedron.
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Snub icosidodecadodecahedron
In geometry, the snub icosidodecadodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U46. It has 104 faces (80 triangles, 12 pentagons, and 12 pentagrams), 180 edges, and 60 vertices. As the name indicates, it belongs to the family of sn ...
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Stellated truncated hexahedron
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Tetrahemihexahedron
In geometry, the tetrahemihexahedron or hemicuboctahedron is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U4. It has 7 faces (4 triangles and 3 squares), 12 edges, and 6 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. Its Coxeter–Dynkin dia ...
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Truncated dodecadodecahedron
In geometry, the truncated dodecadodecahedron (or stellatruncated dodecadodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U59. It is given a Schläfli symbol t0,1,2. It has 54 faces (30 squares, 12 decagons, and 12 decagrams), 180 edges ...
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Truncated great dodecahedron
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Truncated great icosahedron
In geometry, the truncated great icosahedron (or great truncated icosahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U55. It has 32 faces (12 pentagrams and 20 hexagons), 90 edges, and 60 vertices. It is given a Schläfli symbol t or t0,1 ...
Duals of uniform polyhedra
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Catalan solid
In mathematics, a Catalan solid, or Archimedean dual, is a dual polyhedron to an Archimedean solid. There are 13 Catalan solids. They are named for the Belgian mathematician Eugène Catalan, who first described them in 1865.
The Catalan sol ...
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Triakis tetrahedron
In geometry, a triakis tetrahedron (or kistetrahedron) is a Catalan solid with 12 faces. Each Catalan solid is the dual of an Archimedean solid. The dual of the triakis tetrahedron is the truncated tetrahedron.
The triakis tetrahedron can be see ...
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Rhombic dodecahedron
In geometry, the rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 12 congruent rhombic faces. It has 24 edges, and 14 vertices of 2 types. It is a Catalan solid, and the dual polyhedron of the cuboctahedron.
Properties
The rhombic dodecahedro ...
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Triakis octahedron
In geometry, a triakis octahedron (or trigonal trisoctahedron or kisoctahedronConway, Symmetries of things, p. 284) is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid. Its dual is the truncated cube.
It can be seen as an octahedron with triangular ...
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Tetrakis hexahedron
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Deltoidal icositetrahedron
In geometry, the deltoidal icositetrahedron (or trapezoidal icositetrahedron, tetragonal icosikaitetrahedron, tetragonal trisoctahedron, strombic icositetrahedron) is a Catalan solid. Its 24 faces are congruent kites. The deltoidal icosit ...
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Disdyakis dodecahedron
In geometry, a disdyakis dodecahedron, (also hexoctahedron, hexakis octahedron, octakis cube, octakis hexahedron, kisrhombic dodecahedron), is a Catalan solid with 48 faces and the dual to the Archimedean truncated cuboctahedron. As such it is fa ...
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Pentagonal icositetrahedron
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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. It has 60 edges and 32 vertices of two types. It is a Cata ...
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Triakis icosahedron
In geometry, the triakis icosahedron (or kisicosahedronConway, Symmetries of things, p.284) is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid. Its dual is the truncated dodecahedron.
Cartesian coordinates
Let \phi be the golden ratio. The 12 po ...
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Pentakis dodecahedron
In geometry, a pentakis dodecahedron or kisdodecahedron is the polyhedron created by attaching a pentagonal pyramid to each face of a regular dodecahedron; that is, it is the Kleetope of the dodecahedron. It is a Catalan solid, meaning that i ...
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Deltoidal hexecontahedron
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Disdyakis triacontahedron
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Pentagonal hexecontahedron
In geometry, a pentagonal hexecontahedron is a Catalan solid, dual of the snub dodecahedron. It has two distinct forms, which are mirror images (or "enantiomorphs") of each other. It has 92 vertices that span 60 pentagonal faces. It is the Catala ...
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Great complex icosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great complex icosidodecahedron is a degenerate uniform star polyhedron. It has 12 vertices, and 60 (doubled) edges, and 32 faces, 12 pentagrams and 20 triangles. All edges are doubled (making it degenerate), sharing 4 faces, but ...
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Great deltoidal hexecontahedron
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Great deltoidal icositetrahedron
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Great dirhombicosidodecacron
In geometry, the great dirhombicosidodecacron is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the great dirhombicosidodecahedron.
In Magnus Wenninger's ''Dual Models'', it is represented with intersecting infinite prisms passing through t ...
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Great dirhombicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the great dirhombicosidodecahedron (or great snub disicosidisdodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed last as . It has 124 faces (40 triangles, 60 squares, and 24 pentagrams), 240 edges, and 60 vertices.
This is ...
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Great disdyakis dodecahedron
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Great disdyakis triacontahedron
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Great disnub dirhombidodecacron
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Great ditrigonal dodecacronic hexecontahedron
In geometry, the great ditrigonal dodecacronic hexecontahedron (or great lanceal trisicosahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the uniform great ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron. Its faces are kites. Part of each kite ...
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Great dodecacronic hexecontahedron
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Great dodecahemicosacron
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Great dodecicosacron
In geometry, the great dodecicosacron (or great dipteral trisicosahedron) is the dual of the great dodecicosahedron (U63). It has 60 intersecting bow-tie-shaped faces.
Proportions
Each face has two angles of \arccos(\frac+\frac\sqrt)\approx 30 ...
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Great hexacronic icositetrahedron
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Great hexagonal hexecontahedron
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Great icosacronic hexecontahedron
In geometry
Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. A mathematician who works in the field ...
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Great icosihemidodecacron
In geometry, the great icosihemidodecacron is the dual of the great icosihemidodecahedron, and is one of nine dual hemipolyhedra. It appears indistinct from the great dodecahemidodecacron.
Since the hemipolyhedra have faces passing through the ...
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Great inverted pentagonal hexecontahedron
In geometry, the great inverted snub icosidodecahedron (or great vertisnub icosidodecahedron) is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U69. It is given a Schläfli symbol sr, and Coxeter-Dynkin diagram . In the book '' Polyhedron Models'' by Ma ...
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Great pentagonal hexecontahedron
In geometry, the great snub icosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U57. It has 92 faces (80 triangles and 12 pentagrams), 150 edges, and 60 vertices. It can be represented by a Schläfli symbol sr, and Coxeter-Dynkin d ...
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Great pentagrammic hexecontahedron
In geometry, the great pentagrammic hexecontahedron (or great dentoid ditriacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the great retrosnub icosidodecahedron. Its 60 faces are irregular pentagrams.
Proportions
Denote th ...
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Great pentakis dodecahedron
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Great rhombic triacontahedron
In geometry, the great rhombic triacontahedron is a nonconvex isohedral, isotoxal polyhedron. It is the dual of the great icosidodecahedron (U54). Like the convex rhombic triacontahedron it has 30 rhombic faces, 60 edges and 32 vertices (also ...
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Great rhombidodecacron
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Great rhombihexacron
In geometry, the great rhombihexacron (or great dipteral disdodecahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the uniform great rhombihexahedron (U21). It has 24 identical bow-tie-shaped faces, 18 vertices, and 48 edges.
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Great stellapentakis dodecahedron
In geometry, the great stellapentakis dodecahedron (or great astropentakis dodecahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the truncated great icosahedron. It has 60 intersecting triangular faces.
Proportions
The triangle ...
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Great triakis icosahedron
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Great triakis octahedron
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Great triambic icosahedron
In geometry, the great triambic icosahedron and medial triambic icosahedron (or midly triambic icosahedron) are visually identical dual uniform polyhedra. The exterior surface also represents the De2f2 stellation of the icosahedron. These fig ...
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Medial deltoidal hexecontahedron
In geometry, the medial deltoidal hexecontahedron is a nonconvex Isohedral figure, isohedral polyhedron. It is the Dual polyhedron, dual of the rhombidodecadodecahedron. Its 60 intersecting quadrilateral faces are Kite (geometry), kites.
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Medial disdyakis triacontahedron
In geometry, the medial disdyakis triacontahedron is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the uniform truncated dodecadodecahedron. It has 120 triangular faces.
Proportions
The triangles have one angle of \arccos(-\frac)\approx ...
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Medial hexagonal hexecontahedron
In geometry, the medial hexagonal hexecontahedron (or midly dentoid ditriacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the uniform snub icosidodecadodecahedron.
Proportions
The faces of the medial hexagonal hexecontahedr ...
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Medial icosacronic hexecontahedron
In geometry, the medial icosacronic hexecontahedron (or midly sagittal ditriacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the uniform
A uniform is a variety of clothing worn by members of an organization while partici ...
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Medial inverted pentagonal hexecontahedron
In geometry, the inverted snub dodecadodecahedron (or vertisnub dodecadodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U60. It is given a Schläfli symbol sr.
Cartesian coordinates
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of an invert ...
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Medial pentagonal hexecontahedron
In geometry, the medial pentagonal hexecontahedron is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the snub dodecadodecahedron. It has 60 intersecting irregular pentagonal faces.
Proportions
Denote the golden ratio by \phi, and let \xi\a ...
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Medial rhombic triacontahedron
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In geometry, the medial rhombic triacontahedron (or midly rhombic triacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is a stellation of the rhombic triacontahedron, and can also be called small stellated triacontahedron. Its dua ...
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Hexahemioctacron
In geometry, the cubohemioctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U15. It has 10 faces (6 squares and 4 regular hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.
It is given Wythoff symbol 4 , ...
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Hemipolyhedron
In geometry, a hemipolyhedron is a uniform star polyhedron some of whose faces pass through its center. These "hemi" faces lie parallel to the faces of some other symmetrical polyhedron, and their count is half the number of faces of that other po ...
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Octahemioctacron
In geometry, the octahemioctahedron or allelotetratetrahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as . It has 12 faces (8 triangles and 4 hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.
It is one of ...
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Rhombicosacron
In geometry, the rhombicosacron (or midly dipteral ditriacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the uniform rhombicosahedron, U56. It has 50 vertices, 120 edges, and 60 crossed-quadrilateral faces.
Proportions
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Small complex icosidodecahedron
In geometry, the small complex icosidodecahedron is a degenerate uniform star polyhedron. Its edges are doubled, making it degenerate. The star has 32 faces (20 triangles and 12 pentagons), 60 (doubled) edges and 12 vertices and 4 sharing faces. ...
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Small ditrigonal dodecacronic hexecontahedron
In geometry, the small ditrigonal dodecacronic hexecontahedron (or fat star) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the uniform small ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron. It is visually identical to the small dodecicosacron. Its ...
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Small dodecacronic hexecontahedron
In geometry, the small dodecicosidodecahedron (or small dodekicosidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U33. It has 44 faces (20 triangles, 12 pentagons, and 12 decagons), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a ...
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Small dodecahemicosacron
In geometry, the small dodecahemicosacron is the dual of the small dodecahemicosahedron, and is one of nine dual hemipolyhedra. It appears visually indistinct from the great dodecahemicosacron.
Since the hemipolyhedra have faces passing through ...
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Small dodecahemidodecacron
In geometry, the small dodecahemidodecacron is the dual of the small dodecahemidodecahedron, and is one of nine dual hemipolyhedra. It appears visually indistinct from the small icosihemidodecacron.
Since the hemipolyhedra have Face (geometry), f ...
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Small dodecicosacron
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Small hexacronic icositetrahedron
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Small hexagonal hexecontahedron
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Small hexagrammic hexecontahedron
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Small icosacronic hexecontahedron
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Small icosihemidodecacron
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Small rhombidodecacron
In geometry, the small rhombidodecacron is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the small rhombidodecahedron. It is visually identical to the Small dodecacronic hexecontahedron. It has 60 intersecting antiparallelogram faces.
Pro ...
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Small rhombihexacron
In geometry, the small rhombihexacron (or small dipteral disdodecahedron) is the dual of the small rhombihexahedron. It is visually identical to the small hexacronic icositetrahedron. Its faces are antiparallelograms formed by pairs of coplanar ...
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Small stellapentakis dodecahedron
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Small triambic icosahedron
In geometry, the small triambic icosahedron is a star polyhedron composed of 20 intersecting non-regular hexagon faces. It has 60 edges and 32 vertices, and Euler characteristic of −8. It is an isohedron, meaning that all of its faces ar ...
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Tetrahemihexacron
In geometry, the tetrahemihexahedron or hemicuboctahedron is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U4. It has 7 faces (4 triangles and 3 squares), 12 edges, and 6 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. Its Coxeter–Dynkin dia ...
Johnson solids
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Augmented dodecahedron
In geometry, the augmented dodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (), consisting of a dodecahedron with a pentagonal pyramid () attached to one of the faces. When two or three such pyramids are attached, the result may be a parabiaugmented d ...
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Augmented hexagonal prism
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Augmented pentagonal prism
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Augmented sphenocorona
In geometry, the augmented sphenocorona is one of the Johnson solids (), and is obtained by adding a square pyramid to one of the square faces of the sphenocorona. It is the only Johnson solid arising from "cut and paste" manipulations where the ...
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Augmented triangular prism
In geometry, the augmented triangular prism is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by augmenting a triangular prism by attaching a square pyramid () to one of its equatorial faces. The resulting solid bears ...
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Augmented tridiminished icosahedron
In geometry, the augmented tridiminished icosahedron is one of the
Johnson solids (). It can be obtained by joining a tetrahedron to another Johnson solid, the tridiminished icosahedron
In geometry, the tridiminished icosahedron is one of the ...
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Augmented truncated cube
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Augmented truncated dodecahedron
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Augmented truncated tetrahedron
In geometry, the augmented truncated tetrahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It is created by attaching a triangular cupola () to one hexagon
In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek , , meaning "six", and , , meaning "corner, angle") is a s ...
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Biaugmented pentagonal prism
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Biaugmented triangular prism
In geometry, the biaugmented triangular prism is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by augmenting a triangular prism by attaching square pyramids () to two of its equatorial face (geometry), faces.
It is ...
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Biaugmented truncated cube
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Bigyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron
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Bilunabirotunda
In geometry, the bilunabirotunda is one of the Johnson solids ().
Geometry
It is one of the elementary Johnson solids, which do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
However, it does have a str ...
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Diminished rhombicosidodecahedron
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Disphenocingulum
In geometry, the disphenocingulum or pentakis elongated gyrobifastigium is one of the Johnson solids (). It is one of the elementary Johnson solids that do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
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Elongated pentagonal bipyramid
In geometry, the elongated pentagonal bipyramid or pentakis pentagonal prism is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a pentagonal bipyramid () by inserting a pentagonal prism between its congru ...
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Elongated pentagonal cupola
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Elongated pentagonal gyrobicupola
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Elongated pentagonal gyrobirotunda
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Elongated pentagonal gyrocupolarotunda
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Elongated pentagonal orthobicupola
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Elongated pentagonal orthobirotunda
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Elongated pentagonal orthocupolarotunda
In geometry, the elongated pentagonal orthocupolarotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a pentagonal orthocupolarotunda () by inserting a decagonal prism between its halves. Rotating ei ...
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Elongated pentagonal pyramid
In geometry, the elongated pentagonal pyramid is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a pentagonal pyramid () by attaching a pentagonal prism to its base.
Formulae
The following formulae ...
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Elongated pentagonal rotunda
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Elongated square bipyramid
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Elongated square cupola
In geometry, the elongated square cupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a square cupola () by attaching an octagonal prism to its base. The solid can be seen as a rhombicuboctahedron wit ...
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Elongated square gyrobicupola
In geometry, the elongated square gyrobicupola or pseudo-rhombicuboctahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It is not usually considered to be an Archimedean solid, even though its faces consist of regular polygons that meet in the same p ...
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Elongated square pyramid
In geometry, the elongated square pyramid is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a square pyramid () by attaching a cube to its square base. Like any elongated pyramid, it is topologically ( ...
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Elongated triangular bipyramid
In geometry, the elongated triangular bipyramid (or dipyramid) or triakis triangular prism is one of the Johnson solids (), convex polyhedra whose faces are regular polygons. As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a triangu ...
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Elongated triangular cupola
In geometry, the elongated triangular cupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a triangular cupola () by attaching a hexagonal prism to its base.
Formulae
The following formulae for vol ...
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Elongated triangular gyrobicupola
In geometry, the elongated triangular gyrobicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a "triangular gyrobicupola," or cuboctahedron, by inserting a hexagonal prism between its two halves, ...
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Elongated triangular orthobicupola
In geometry, the elongated triangular orthobicupola or cantellated triangular prism is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a triangular orthobicupola () by inserting a hexagonal prism between ...
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Elongated triangular pyramid
In geometry, the elongated triangular pyramid is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a tetrahedron by attaching a triangular prism to its base. Like any elongated pyramid, the resulting solid ...
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Gyrate bidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron
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Gyrate rhombicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the gyrate rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It is also a canonical polyhedron.
Related polyhedron
It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with one pentagonal cupola rotated through 36 degrees. ...
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Gyrobifastigium
In geometry, the gyrobifastigium is the 26th Johnson solid (). It can be constructed by joining two face-regular triangular prisms along corresponding square faces, giving a quarter-turn to one prism. It is the only Johnson solid that can tile ...
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Gyroelongated pentagonal bicupola
In geometry, the gyroelongated pentagonal bicupola is one of the Johnson solid
In geometry, a Johnson solid is a strictly convex polyhedron each face of which is a regular polygon. There is no requirement that each face must be the same ...
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Gyroelongated pentagonal birotunda
In geometry, a Johnson solid is a strictly convex polyhedron each face of which is a regular polygon. There is no requirement that isohedral, each face must be the same polygon, or that the same polygons join around each Vertex (geometry), ver ...
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Gyroelongated pentagonal cupola
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Gyroelongated pentagonal cupolarotunda
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Gyroelongated pentagonal pyramid
In geometry, the gyroelongated pentagonal pyramid is one of the Johnson solids (). As its name suggests, it is formed by taking a pentagonal pyramid and "gyroelongating" it, which in this case involves joining a pentagonal antiprism to its base ...
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Gyroelongated pentagonal rotunda
In geometry, the gyroelongated pentagonal rotunda is one of the Johnson solids (''J''25). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a pentagonal rotunda (''J''6) by attaching a decagonal antiprism to its base. It can also be ...
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Gyroelongated square bicupola
In geometry, the gyroelongated square bicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a square bicupola ( or ) by inserting an octagon
In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγ ...
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Gyroelongated square bipyramid
In geometry, the gyroelongated square bipyramid, heccaidecadeltahedron, or tetrakis square antiprism is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating an octahedron (square bipyramid) by inserting a s ...
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Gyroelongated square cupola
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Gyroelongated square pyramid
In geometry, the gyroelongated square pyramid is one of the Johnson solids (). As its name suggests, it can be constructed by taking a square pyramid and "gyroelongating" it, which in this case involves joining a square antiprism to its base.
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Gyroelongated triangular bicupola
In geometry, the gyroelongated triangular bicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by gyroelongating a triangular bicupola (either triangular orthobicupola, , or the cuboctahedron) by inserting a h ...
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Gyroelongated triangular cupola
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Hebesphenomegacorona
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Metabiaugmented dodecahedron
In geometry, the metabiaugmented dodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be viewed as a dodecahedron with two pentagonal pyramids () attached to two faces that are separated by one face. (The two faces are not opposite, but not adja ...
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Metabiaugmented hexagonal prism
In geometry, the metabiaugmented hexagonal prism is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by doubly augmenting a hexagonal prism by attaching square pyramids () to two of its nonadjacent, nonparallel equatorial ...
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Metabiaugmented truncated dodecahedron
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Metabidiminished icosahedron
In geometry, the metabidiminished icosahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). The name refers to one way of constructing it, by removing two pentagonal pyramids () from a regular icosahedron, replacing two sets of five triangular faces of the ...
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Metabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron
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Metabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron
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Metagyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron
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Parabiaugmented dodecahedron
In geometry, the parabiaugmented dodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be seen as a dodecahedron with two pentagonal pyramids () attached to opposite faces. When pyramids are attached to a dodecahedron in other ways, they may resu ...
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Parabiaugmented hexagonal prism
In geometry, the parabiaugmented hexagonal prism is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by doubly augmenting a hexagonal prism by attaching square pyramids () to two of its nonadjacent, parallel (opposite) eq ...
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Parabiaugmented truncated dodecahedron
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Parabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron
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Parabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron
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Paragyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron
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Pentagonal bipyramid
In geometry, the pentagonal bipyramid (or dipyramid) is third of the infinite set of face-transitive bipyramids, and the 13th Johnson solid (). Each bipyramid is the dual of a uniform prism.
Although it is face-transitive, it is not a Plat ...
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Pentagonal cupola
In geometry, the pentagonal cupola is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be obtained as a slice of the rhombicosidodecahedron. The pentagonal cupola consists of 5 equilateral triangles, 5 squares, 1 pentagon, and 1 decagon.
Formulae
The ...
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Pentagonal gyrobicupola
In geometry, the pentagonal gyrobicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). Like the pentagonal orthobicupola (), it can be obtained by joining two pentagonal cupolae () along their bases. The difference is that in this solid, the two halves are ...
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Pentagonal gyrocupolarotunda
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Pentagonal orthobicupola
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Pentagonal orthobirotunda
In geometry, the pentagonal orthobirotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be constructed by joining two pentagonal rotundae () along their decagonal faces, matching like faces.
Related polyhedra
The pentagonal orthobirotunda is als ...
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Pentagonal orthocupolarotunda
In geometry, the pentagonal orthocupolarotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by joining a pentagonal cupola () and a pentagonal rotunda () along their decagonal bases, matching the pentagonal fac ...
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Pentagonal pyramid
In geometry, a pentagonal pyramid is a pyramid with a pentagonal base upon which are erected five triangular faces that meet at a point (the apex). Like any pyramid, it is self- dual.
The ''regular'' pentagonal pyramid has a base that is a regu ...
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Pentagonal rotunda
In geometry, the pentagonal rotunda is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be seen as half of an icosidodecahedron, or as half of a pentagonal orthobirotunda. It has a total of 17 faces.
Formulae
The following formulae for volume, surface ar ...
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Snub disphenoid
In geometry, the snub disphenoid, Siamese dodecahedron, triangular dodecahedron, trigonal dodecahedron, or dodecadeltahedron is a convex polyhedron with twelve equilateral triangles as its faces. It is not a regular polyhedron because some vert ...
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Snub square antiprism
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Sphenocorona
In geometry, the sphenocorona is one of the Johnson solids (). It is one of the elementary Johnson solids that do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
Johnson uses the prefix ''spheno-'' to ref ...
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Sphenomegacorona
In geometry, the sphenomegacorona is one of the Johnson solids (). It is one of the elementary Johnson solids that do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
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Johnson uses the prefix ''spheno-'' ...
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Square cupola
In geometry, the square cupola, sometimes called lesser dome, is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be obtained as a slice of the rhombicuboctahedron. As in all cupolae, the base polygon has twice as many edges and vertices as the top; in t ...
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Square gyrobicupola
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Square orthobicupola
In geometry, the square orthobicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by joining two square cupolae () along their octagonal bases, matching like faces. A 45-degree rotation of one cupola before the ...
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Square pyramid
In geometry, a square pyramid is a pyramid having a square base. If the apex is perpendicularly above the center of the square, it is a right square pyramid, and has symmetry. If all edge lengths are equal, it is an equilateral square pyramid, ...
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Triangular bipyramid
In geometry, the triangular bipyramid (or dipyramid) is a type of hexahedron, being the first in the infinite set of face-transitive bipyramids. It is the dual of the triangular prism with 6 isosceles triangle faces.
As the name suggests, i ...
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Triangular cupola
In geometry, the triangular cupola is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be seen as half a cuboctahedron.
Formulae
The following formulae for the volume (V), the surface area (A) and the height (H) can be used if all faces are regular, ...
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Triangular hebesphenorotunda
In geometry, the triangular hebesphenorotunda is one of the Johnson solids ().
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It is one of the elementary Johnson solids, which do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids. However, it does have a ...
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Triangular orthobicupola
In geometry, the triangular orthobicupola is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by attaching two triangular cupolas () along their bases. It has an equal number of squares and triangles at each vertex; howev ...
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Triaugmented dodecahedron
In geometry, the triaugmented dodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be seen as a dodecahedron with three pentagonal pyramids () attached to nonadjacent faces. When pyramids are attached to a dodecahedron in other ways, they may re ...
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Triaugmented hexagonal prism
In geometry, the triaugmented hexagonal prism is one of the Johnson solids (). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by triply augmenting a hexagonal prism by attaching square pyramids () to three of its nonadjacent equatorial faces.
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Triaugmented triangular prism
The triaugmented triangular prism, in geometry, is a convex polyhedron with 14 equilateral triangles as its faces. It can be constructed from a triangular prism by attaching equilateral square pyramids to each of its three square faces. The same ...
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Triaugmented truncated dodecahedron
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Tridiminished icosahedron
In geometry, the tridiminished icosahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). The name refers to one way of constructing it, by removing three pentagonal pyramids () from a regular icosahedron, which replaces three sets of five triangular faces fro ...
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Tridiminished rhombicosidodecahedron
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Trigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the trigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It contains 20 triangles, 30 squares and 12 pentagons. It is also a Midsphere#Canonical polyhedron, canonical polyhedron.
It can be constructed as a rhombicosi ...
Other nonuniform polyhedra
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Pyramid
A pyramid (from el, πυραμίς ') is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single step at the top, making the shape roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilat ...
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Bipyramid
A (symmetric) -gonal bipyramid or dipyramid is a polyhedron formed by joining an -gonal pyramid and its mirror image base-to-base. An -gonal bipyramid has triangle faces, edges, and vertices.
The "-gonal" in the name of a bipyramid does not ...
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Disphenoid
In geometry, a disphenoid () is a tetrahedron whose four faces are congruent acute-angled triangles. It can also be described as a tetrahedron in which every two edges that are opposite each other have equal lengths. Other names for the same sh ...
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Parallelepiped
In geometry, a parallelepiped is a three-dimensional figure formed by six parallelograms (the term ''rhomboid'' is also sometimes used with this meaning). By analogy, it relates to a parallelogram just as a cube relates to a square. In Euclidea ...
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Cuboid
In geometry, a cuboid is a hexahedron, a six-faced solid. Its faces are quadrilaterals. Cuboid means "like a cube", in the sense that by adjusting the length of the edges or the angles between edges and faces a cuboid can be transformed into a cub ...
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Rhombohedron
In geometry, a rhombohedron (also called a rhombic hexahedron or, inaccurately, a rhomboid
Traditionally, in two-dimensional geometry, a rhomboid is a parallelogram in which adjacent sides are of unequal lengths and angles are non-right ang ...
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Trapezohedron
In geometry, an trapezohedron, -trapezohedron, -antidipyramid, -antibipyramid, or -deltohedron is the dual polyhedron of an antiprism. The faces of an are congruent and symmetrically staggered; they are called ''twisted kites''. With a hi ...
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Frustum
In geometry, a (from the Latin for "morsel"; plural: ''frusta'' or ''frustums'') is the portion of a solid (normally a pyramid or a cone) that lies between two parallel planes cutting this solid. In the case of a pyramid, the base faces are ...
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Trapezo-rhombic dodecahedron
In geometry, the trapezo-rhombic dodecahedron or rhombo-trapezoidal dodecahedron is a convex dodecahedron with 6 rhombic and 6 trapezoidal faces. It has symmetry. A concave form can be constructed with an identical net, seen as excavating trig ...
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Rhombo-hexagonal dodecahedron
In geometry, the elongated dodecahedron, extended rhombic dodecahedron, rhombo-hexagonal dodecahedron or hexarhombic dodecahedron is a convex dodecahedron with 8 rhombic and 4 hexagonal faces. The hexagons can be made equilateral, or regular de ...
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Truncated trapezohedron
In geometry, an truncated trapezohedron is a polyhedron formed by a trapezohedron with pyramids truncated from its two polar axis vertices. If the polar vertices are completely truncated (diminished), a trapezohedron becomes an antiprism.
T ...
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Deltahedron
In geometry, a deltahedron (plural ''deltahedra'') is a polyhedron whose faces are all equilateral triangles. The name is taken from the Greek upper case delta (Δ), which has the shape of an equilateral triangle. There are infinitely many d ...
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Zonohedron
In geometry, a zonohedron is a convex polyhedron that is centrally symmetric, every face of which is a polygon that is centrally symmetric (a zonogon). Any zonohedron may equivalently be described as the Minkowski sum of a set of line segments in ...
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Prismatoid
In geometry, a prismatoid is a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in two parallel planes. Its lateral faces can be trapezoids or triangles. If both planes have the same number of vertices, and the lateral faces are either parallelograms or trape ...
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Cupola
In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.
The word derives, via Italian, from ...
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Bicupola
Spherical polyhedra
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Dihedron
A dihedron is a type of polyhedron, made of two polygon faces which share the same set of ''n'' edges. In three-dimensional Euclidean space, it is degenerate if its faces are flat, while in three-dimensional spherical space, a dihedron with flat ...
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Hosohedron
In spherical geometry, an -gonal hosohedron is a tessellation of lunes on a spherical surface, such that each lune shares the same two polar opposite vertices.
A regular -gonal hosohedron has Schläfli symbol with each spherical lune hav ...
Honeycombs
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Convex uniform honeycomb
In geometry, a convex uniform honeycomb is a uniform polytope, uniform tessellation which fills three-dimensional Euclidean space with non-overlapping convex polyhedron, convex uniform polyhedron, uniform polyhedral cells.
Twenty-eight such honey ...
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Cubic honeycomb
The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a re ...
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Truncated cubic honeycomb
The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a re ...
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Bitruncated cubic honeycomb
The bitruncated cubic honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of truncated octahedra (or, equivalently, bitruncated cubes). It has 4 truncated octahedra around each vertex. Being composed entirely of t ...
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Cantellated cubic honeycomb
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Cantitruncated cubic honeycomb
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Rectified cubic honeycomb
The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a r ...
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Runcitruncated cubic honeycomb
The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a re ...
*Omnitruncated cubic honeycomb
*Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb
*Truncated alternated cubic honeycomb
*Cantitruncated alternated cubic honeycomb
*Runcinated alternated cubic honeycomb
*Quarter cubic honeycomb
*Gyrated tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb
*Gyrated triangular prismatic honeycomb
*Gyroelongated alternated cubic honeycomb
*Gyroelongated triangular prismatic honeycomb
*Elongated triangular prismatic honeycomb
*Elongated alternated cubic honeycomb
*Hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
*Triangular prismatic honeycomb
*Triangular-hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
*Truncated hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
*Truncated square prismatic honeycomb
*Rhombitriangular-hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
*Omnitruncated triangular-hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
*Snub triangular-hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
*Snub square prismatic honeycomb
;Dual uniform honeycomb
*Disphenoid tetrahedral honeycomb
*Rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb
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*Trapezo-rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb
*Weaire–Phelan structure
;Convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space
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Order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb
In hyperbolic geometry, the order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) of hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol it has four dodecahedra around each edge, and 8 dodecahedra aro ...
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Order-5 cubic honeycomb
In hyperbolic geometry, the order-5 cubic honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol it has five cubes around each edge, and 20 cubes around each vertex. It ...
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Order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb
In hyperbolic geometry, the order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol it has five dodecahedral cells around each edge, and each vertex ...
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Icosahedral honeycomb
In geometry, the icosahedral honeycomb is one of four compact, regular, space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol there are three icosahedra around each edge, and 12 icosahedra around each vertex ...
Other
*Apeirogonal prism
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Apeirohedron
In geometry, a skew apeirohedron is an infinite skew polyhedron consisting of nonplanar Face (geometry), faces or nonplanar vertex figures, allowing the figure to extend indefinitely without folding round to form a Surface (topology)#Closed_surfac ...
*Bicupola (geometry), Bicupola
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Cupola
In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.
The word derives, via Italian, from ...
*Bifrustum
*Boerdijk–Coxeter helix
*Császár polyhedron
*Flexible polyhedron
*Gyroelongated square dipyramid
*Heronian tetrahedron
*Hexagonal bifrustum
*Hexagonal truncated trapezohedron
*Hill tetrahedron
*Holyhedron
*Infinite skew polyhedron
*Jessen's icosahedron
*Near-miss Johnson solid
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Parallelepiped
In geometry, a parallelepiped is a three-dimensional figure formed by six parallelograms (the term ''rhomboid'' is also sometimes used with this meaning). By analogy, it relates to a parallelogram just as a cube relates to a square. In Euclidea ...
*Pentagonal bifrustum
*Polytetrahedron
*Pyritohedron
*Rhombic enneacontahedron
*Rhombic icosahedron
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Rhombo-hexagonal dodecahedron
In geometry, the elongated dodecahedron, extended rhombic dodecahedron, rhombo-hexagonal dodecahedron or hexarhombic dodecahedron is a convex dodecahedron with 8 rhombic and 4 hexagonal faces. The hexagons can be made equilateral, or regular de ...
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Rhombohedron
In geometry, a rhombohedron (also called a rhombic hexahedron or, inaccurately, a rhomboid
Traditionally, in two-dimensional geometry, a rhomboid is a parallelogram in which adjacent sides are of unequal lengths and angles are non-right ang ...
*Scalenohedron
*Schönhardt polyhedron
*Square bifrustum
*Square truncated trapezohedron
*Szilassi polyhedron
*Tetradecahedron
*Tetradyakis hexahedron
*Tetrated dodecahedron
*Triangular bifrustum
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Triaugmented triangular prism
The triaugmented triangular prism, in geometry, is a convex polyhedron with 14 equilateral triangles as its faces. It can be constructed from a triangular prism by attaching equilateral square pyramids to each of its three square faces. The same ...
*Truncated rhombic dodecahedron
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Truncated trapezohedron
In geometry, an truncated trapezohedron is a polyhedron formed by a trapezohedron with pyramids truncated from its two polar axis vertices. If the polar vertices are completely truncated (diminished), a trapezohedron becomes an antiprism.
T ...
*Truncated triakis tetrahedron
*Tridyakis icosahedron
*Trigonal trapezohedron
*
Regular skew polyhedron
In geometry, the regular skew polyhedra are generalizations to the set of regular polyhedra which include the possibility of nonplanar faces or vertex figures. Coxeter looked at skew vertex figures which created new 4-dimensional regular polyhedra ...
*Waterman polyhedron
*Wedge (geometry), Wedge
Regular and uniform compound polyhedra
;Polyhedral compound and Uniform polyhedron compound
*Compound of cube and octahedron
*Compound of dodecahedron and icosahedron
*Compound of eight octahedra with rotational freedom
*Compound of eight triangular prisms
*Compound of five cubes
*Compound of five cuboctahedra
*Compound of five cubohemioctahedra
*Compound of five great cubicuboctahedra
*Compound of five great dodecahedra
*Compound of five great icosahedra
*Compound of five great rhombihexahedra
*Compound of five icosahedra
*Compound of five octahedra
*Compound of five octahemioctahedra
*Compound of five small cubicuboctahedra
*Compound of five small rhombicuboctahedra
*Compound of five small rhombihexahedra
*Compound of five small stellated dodecahedra
*Compound of five stellated truncated cubes
*Compound of five tetrahedra
*Compound of five tetrahemihexahedra
*Compound of five truncated cubes
*Compound of five truncated tetrahedra
*Compound of five uniform great rhombicuboctahedra
*Compound of four hexagonal prisms
*Compound of four octahedra
*Compound of four octahedra with rotational freedom
*Compound of four tetrahedra
*Compound of four triangular prisms
*Compound of great icosahedron and great stellated dodecahedron
*Compound of six cubes with rotational freedom
*Compound of six decagonal prisms
*Compound of six decagrammic prisms
*Compound of six pentagonal prisms
*Compound of six pentagrammic crossed antiprisms
*Compound of six pentagrammic prisms
*Compound of six tetrahedra
*Compound of six tetrahedra with rotational freedom
*Compound of small stellated dodecahedron and great dodecahedron
*Compound of ten hexagonal prisms
*Compound of ten octahedra
*Compound of ten tetrahedra
*Compound of ten triangular prisms
*Compound of ten truncated tetrahedra
*Compound of three cubes
*Compound of three tetrahedra
*Compound of twelve pentagonal antiprisms with rotational freedom
*Compound of twelve pentagonal prisms
*Compound of twelve pentagrammic prisms
*Compound of twelve tetrahedra with rotational freedom
*Compound of twenty octahedra
*Compound of twenty octahedra with rotational freedom
*Compound of twenty tetrahemihexahedra
*Compound of twenty triangular prisms
*Compound of two great dodecahedra
*Compound of two great icosahedra
*Compound of two great inverted snub icosidodecahedra
*Compound of two great retrosnub icosidodecahedra
*Compound of two great snub icosidodecahedra
*Compound of two icosahedra
*Compound of two inverted snub dodecadodecahedra
*Compound of two small stellated dodecahedra
*Compound of two snub cubes
*Compound of two snub dodecadodecahedra
*Compound of two snub dodecahedra
*Compound of two snub icosidodecadodecahedra
*Compound of two truncated tetrahedra
*Prismatic compound of antiprisms
*Prismatic compound of antiprisms with rotational freedom
*Prismatic compound of prisms
*Prismatic compound of prisms with rotational freedom
*4-polytope
**Hecatonicosachoron
**Hexacosichoron
**Hexadecachoron
**Icositetrachoron
**Pentachoron
**Tesseract
*Spherical cone
;Convex
regular 4-polytope
In mathematics, a regular 4-polytope is a regular four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the regular polyhedra in three dimensions and the regular polygons in two dimensions.
There are six convex and ten star regu ...
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5-cell
In geometry, the 5-cell is the convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is a 5-vertex four-dimensional object bounded by five tetrahedral cells. It is also known as a C5, pentachoron, pentatope, pentahedroid, or tetrahedral pyramid. It i ...
, Tesseract,
16-cell
In geometry, the 16-cell is the regular convex 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is one of the six regular convex 4-polytopes first described by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli in the mi ...
,
24-cell
In geometry, the 24-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called C24, or the icositetrachoron, octaplex (short for "octahedral complex"), icosatetrahedroid, oct ...
,
120-cell
In geometry, the 120-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also called a C120, dodecaplex (short for "dodecahedral complex"), hyperdodecahedron, polydodecahedron, heca ...
,
600-cell
In geometry, the 600-cell is the convex regular 4-polytope (four-dimensional analogue of a Platonic solid) with Schläfli symbol . It is also known as the C600, hexacosichoron and hexacosihedroid. It is also called a tetraplex (abbreviated from " ...
;Abstract regular polytope
*
11-cell
In mathematics, the 11-cell (or hendecachoron) is a self-dual abstract regular 4-polytope ( four-dimensional polytope). Its 11 cells are hemi-icosahedral. It has 11 vertices, 55 edges and 55 faces. It has Schläfli symbol , with 3 hemi-icosahedr ...
,
57-cell
;regular 4-polytope, Schläfli–Hess 4-polytope (Regular star 4-polytope)
*
Icosahedral 120-cell,
Small stellated 120-cell
In geometry, the small stellated 120-cell or stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
Related polytopes
It has the same edge arrangement as the great gr ...
,
Great 120-cell,
Grand 120-cell
In geometry, the grand 120-cell or grand polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
It is one of four ''regular star 4-polytopes'' discovered by Ludwig Schläfli. It is n ...
,
Great stellated 120-cell
In geometry, the great stellated 120-cell or great stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
It is one of four ''regular star 4-polytopes'' discovered by Lu ...
,
Grand stellated 120-cell
In geometry, the grand stellated 120-cell or grand stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
It is also one of two such polytopes that is self-dual.
Rela ...
,
Great grand 120-cell,
Great icosahedral 120-cell
In geometry, the great icosahedral 120-cell, great polyicosahedron or great faceted 600-cell is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes.
Related polytopes
It has the same edge arran ...
,
Grand 600-cell
In geometry, the grand 600-cell or grand polytetrahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol . It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes. It is the only one with 600 cells.
It is one of four ''regular star 4-polytopes'' dis ...
,
Great grand stellated 120-cell
In geometry, the great grand stellated 120-cell or great grand stellated polydodecahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol , one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess 4-polytopes. It is unique among the 10 for having 600 vertices, and ...
;Uniform 4-polytope
*Rectified 5-cell, Truncated 5-cell, Cantellated 5-cell, Runcinated 5-cell
*Rectified tesseract, Truncated tesseract, Cantellated tesseract, Runcinated tesseract
*Rectified 16-cell, Truncated 16-cell
*Rectified 24-cell, Truncated 24-cell, Cantellated 24-cell, Runcinated 24-cell, Snub 24-cell
*Rectified 120-cell, Truncated 120-cell, Cantellated 120-cell, Runcinated 120-cell
*Rectified 600-cell, Truncated 600-cell, Cantellated 600-cell
;Prismatic uniform polychoron
*Grand antiprism
*Duoprism
*Tetrahedral prism, Truncated tetrahedral prism
*Truncated cubic prism, Truncated octahedral prism, Cuboctahedral prism, Rhombicuboctahedral prism, Truncated cuboctahedral prism, Snub cubic prism
*Truncated dodecahedral prism, Truncated icosahedral prism, Icosidodecahedral prism, Rhombicosidodecahedral prism, Truncated icosidodecahedral prism, Snub dodecahedral prism
*Uniform antiprismatic prism
Honeycombs
*
Tesseractic honeycomb
In four-dimensional euclidean geometry, the tesseractic honeycomb is one of the three regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs), represented by Schläfli symbol , and constructed by a 4-dimensional packing of tesseract facets.
Its ver ...
*
24-cell honeycomb
In Four-dimensional space, four-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the 24-cell honeycomb, or icositetrachoric honeycomb is a regular polytope, regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb (geometry), honeycomb) of 4-dimensional Euclidean space by ...
*Snub 24-cell honeycomb
*Rectified 24-cell honeycomb
*Truncated 24-cell honeycomb
*
16-cell honeycomb
In Four-dimensional space, four-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the 16-cell honeycomb is one of the three regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycomb (geometry), honeycombs), represented by Schläfli symbol , and constructed by a 4-dimensiona ...
*5-cell honeycomb
*Omnitruncated 5-cell honeycomb
*Truncated 5-cell honeycomb
*Omnitruncated 5-simplex honeycomb
5D with 4D surfaces
*regular 5-polytope
**5-dimensional cross-polytope
**5-dimensional
hypercube
In geometry, a hypercube is an ''n''-dimensional analogue of a square () and a cube (). It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1- skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, ...
**5-dimensional simplex
;Five-dimensional space,
5-polytope and uniform 5-polytope
*5-simplex, Rectified 5-simplex, Truncated 5-simplex, Cantellated 5-simplex, Runcinated 5-simplex, Stericated 5-simplex
*5-demicube, Truncated 5-demicube, Cantellated 5-demicube, Runcinated 5-demicube
*5-cube, Rectified 5-cube, 5-cube, Truncated 5-cube, Cantellated 5-cube, Runcinated 5-cube, Stericated 5-cube
*5-orthoplex, Rectified 5-orthoplex, Truncated 5-orthoplex, Cantellated 5-orthoplex, Runcinated 5-orthoplex
;Prismatic uniform 5-polytope: For each polytope of dimension ''n'', there is a prism of dimension ''n''+1.
Honeycombs
*5-cubic honeycomb
*5-simplex honeycomb
*Truncated 5-simplex honeycomb
*5-demicubic honeycomb
Six dimensions
;Six-dimensional space, 6-polytope and uniform 6-polytope
*6-simplex, Rectified 6-simplex, Truncated 6-simplex, Cantellated 6-simplex, Runcinated 6-simplex, Stericated 6-simplex, Pentellated 6-simplex
*6-demicube, Truncated 6-demicube, Cantellated 6-demicube, Runcinated 6-demicube, Stericated 6-demicube
*6-cube, Rectified 6-cube, 6-cube, Truncated 6-cube, Cantellated 6-cube, Runcinated 6-cube, Stericated 6-cube, Pentellated 6-cube
*6-orthoplex, Rectified 6-orthoplex, Truncated 6-orthoplex, Cantellated 6-orthoplex, Runcinated 6-orthoplex, Stericated 6-orthoplex
*1 22 polytope, 1
22 polytope, 2 21 polytope, 2
21 polytope
Honeycombs
*6-cubic honeycomb
*6-simplex honeycomb
*6-demicubic honeycomb
*2 22 honeycomb, 2
22 honeycomb
Seven dimensions
;Seven-dimensional space, uniform 7-polytope
*7-simplex, Rectified 7-simplex, Truncated 7-simplex, Cantellated 7-simplex, Runcinated 7-simplex, Stericated 7-simplex, Pentellated 7-simplex, Hexicated 7-simplex
*7-demicube, Truncated 7-demicube, Cantellated 7-demicube, Runcinated 7-demicube, Stericated 7-demicube, Pentellated 7-demicube
*7-cube, Rectified 7-cube, 7-cube, Truncated 7-cube, Cantellated 7-cube, Runcinated 7-cube, Stericated 7-cube, Pentellated 7-cube, Hexicated 7-cube
*7-orthoplex, Rectified 7-orthoplex, Truncated 7-orthoplex, Cantellated 7-orthoplex, Runcinated 7-orthoplex, Stericated 7-orthoplex, Pentellated 7-orthoplex
*1 32 polytope, 1
32 polytope, 2 31 polytope, 2
31 polytope, 3 21 polytope, 3
21 polytope
Honeycombs
*7-cubic honeycomb
*7-demicubic honeycomb
*3 31 honeycomb, 3
31 honeycomb, 1 33 honeycomb, 1
33 honeycomb
Eight dimension
;Eight-dimensional space, uniform 8-polytope
*8-simplex, Rectified 8-simplex, Truncated 8-simplex, Cantellated 8-simplex, Runcinated 8-simplex, Stericated 8-simplex, Pentellated 8-simplex, Hexicated 8-simplex, Heptellated 8-simplex
*8-orthoplex, Rectified 8-orthoplex, Truncated 8-orthoplex, Cantellated 8-orthoplex, Runcinated 8-orthoplex, Stericated 8-orthoplex, Pentellated 8-orthoplex, Hexicated 8-orthoplex
*8-cube, Rectified 8-cube, Truncated 8-cube, Cantellated 8-cube, Runcinated 8-cube, Stericated 8-cube, Pentellated 8-cube, Hexicated 8-cube, Heptellated 8-cube
*8-demicube, Truncated 8-demicube, Cantellated 8-demicube, Runcinated 8-demicube, Stericated 8-demicube, Pentellated 8-demicube, Hexicated 8-demicube
*1 42 polytope, 1
42 polytope, 2 41 polytope, 2
41 polytope, 4 21 polytope, 4
21 polytope, Truncated 4 21 polytope, Truncated 4
21 polytope, Truncated 2 41 polytope, Truncated 2
41 polytope, Truncated 1 42 polytope, Truncated 1
42 polytope, Cantellated 4 21 polytope, Cantellated 4
21 polytope, Cantellated 2 41 polytope, Cantellated 2
41 polytope, Runcinated 4 21 polytope, Runcinated 4
21 polytope
Honeycombs
*8-cubic honeycomb
*8-demicubic honeycomb
*5 21 honeycomb, 5
21 honeycomb, 2 51 honeycomb, 2
51 honeycomb, 1 52 honeycomb, 1
52 honeycomb
Nine dimensions
;9-polytope
*9-cube
*9-demicube
*9-orthoplex
*9-simplex
Hyperbolic honeycombs
*E9 honeycomb, E
9 honeycomb
Ten dimensions
;10-polytope
*10-cube
*10-demicube
*10-orthoplex
*10-simplex
Dimensional families
;Regular polytope and List of regular polytopes
*
Simplex
In geometry, a simplex (plural: simplexes or simplices) is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimensions. The simplex is so-named because it represents the simplest possible polytope in any given dimension. ...
*
Hypercube
In geometry, a hypercube is an ''n''-dimensional analogue of a square () and a cube (). It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1- skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, ...
*
Cross-polytope
In geometry, a cross-polytope, hyperoctahedron, orthoplex, or cocube is a regular, convex polytope that exists in ''n''- dimensional Euclidean space. A 2-dimensional cross-polytope is a square, a 3-dimensional cross-polytope is a regular octahed ...
;Uniform polytope
*Demihypercube
*Uniform 1 k2 polytope, Uniform 1
''k''2 polytope
*Uniform 2 k1 polytope, Uniform 2
''k''1 polytope
*Uniform k 21 polytope, Uniform ''k''
21 polytope
;Honeycombs
*
Hypercubic honeycomb
In geometry, a hypercubic honeycomb is a family of regular honeycombs (tessellations) in -dimensional spaces with the Schläfli symbols and containing the symmetry of Coxeter group (or ) for .
The tessellation is constructed from 4 -hypercube ...
*Alternated hypercubic honeycomb
Geometry
*
Triangle
A triangle is a polygon with three Edge (geometry), edges and three Vertex (geometry), vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'' is denoted \triangle ABC.
In Euclidean geometry, an ...
*Automedian triangle
*Delaunay triangulation
*
Equilateral triangle
In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides have the same length. In the familiar Euclidean geometry, an equilateral triangle is also equiangular; that is, all three internal angles are also congruent to each othe ...
*Golden triangle (mathematics), Golden triangle
*Hyperbolic triangle (non-Euclidean geometry)
*
Isosceles triangle
In geometry, an isosceles triangle () is a triangle that has two sides of equal length. Sometimes it is specified as having ''exactly'' two sides of equal length, and sometimes as having ''at least'' two sides of equal length, the latter versio ...
*
Kepler triangle
A Kepler triangle is a special right triangle with edge lengths in geometric progression. The ratio of the progression is \sqrt\varphi where \varphi=(1+\sqrt)/2 is the golden ratio, and the progression can be written: or approximately . Squares ...
*
Reuleaux triangle
*
Right triangle
A right triangle (American English) or right-angled triangle (British), or more formally an orthogonal triangle, formerly called a rectangled triangle ( grc, ὀρθόσγωνία, lit=upright angle), is a triangle in which one angle is a right an ...
*
Sierpinski triangle (fractal geometry)
*Special right triangles
*Spiral of Theodorus
*Thomson cubic
*
Triangular bipyramid
In geometry, the triangular bipyramid (or dipyramid) is a type of hexahedron, being the first in the infinite set of face-transitive bipyramids. It is the dual of the triangular prism with 6 isosceles triangle faces.
As the name suggests, i ...
*Triangular prism
*Triangular pyramid
*
Triangular tiling
In geometry, the triangular tiling or triangular tessellation is one of the three regular tilings of the Euclidean plane, and is the only such tiling where the constituent shapes are not parallelogons. Because the internal angle of the equilater ...
Geometry and other areas of mathematics
* Annulus (mathematics), Annulus
* Apollonian circles
*
Apollonian gasket
In mathematics, an Apollonian gasket or Apollonian net is a fractal generated by starting with a triple of circles, each tangent to the other two, and successively filling in more circles, each tangent to another three. It is named after Greek mat ...
* Arbelos
* Borromean rings
* Circle
* Circular sector
* Circular segment
*
Cyclic quadrilateral
In Euclidean geometry, a cyclic quadrilateral or inscribed quadrilateral is a quadrilateral whose vertices all lie on a single circle. This circle is called the ''circumcircle'' or ''circumscribed circle'', and the vertices are said to be ''c ...
*
Cycloid
In geometry, a cycloid is the curve traced by a point on a circle as it rolls along a straight line without slipping. A cycloid is a specific form of trochoid and is an example of a roulette, a curve generated by a curve rolling on another curve ...
*
Epitrochoid
In geometry, an epitrochoid ( or ) is a roulette traced by a point attached to a circle of radius rolling around the outside of a fixed circle of radius , where the point is at a distance from the center of the exterior circle.
The parametric ...
**
Epicycloid
In geometry, an epicycloid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point on the circumference of a circle—called an ''epicycle''—which rolls without slipping around a fixed circle. It is a particular kind of roulette.
Equati ...
***
Cardioid
In geometry, a cardioid () is a plane curve traced by a point on the perimeter of a circle that is rolling around a fixed circle of the same radius. It can also be defined as an epicycloid having a single cusp. It is also a type of sinusoidal spi ...
***
Nephroid
In geometry, a nephroid () is a specific plane curve. It is a type of epicycloid in which the smaller circle's radius differs from the larger by a factor of one-half.
Name
Although the term ''nephroid'' was used to describe other curves, it was ...
*** Deferent and epicycle
* Ex-tangential quadrilateral
* Horocycle
* Hypotrochoid
**
Hypocycloid
In geometry, a hypocycloid is a special plane curve generated by the trace of a fixed point on a small circle that rolls within a larger circle. As the radius of the larger circle is increased, the hypocycloid becomes more like the cycloid crea ...
***
Astroid
In mathematics, an astroid is a particular type of roulette curve: a hypocycloid with four cusps. Specifically, it is the locus of a point on a circle as it rolls inside a fixed circle with four times the radius. By double generation, it ...
***
Deltoid curve
In geometry, a deltoid curve, also known as a tricuspoid curve or Steiner curve, is a hypocycloid of three cusps. In other words, it is the roulette created by a point on the circumference of a circle as it rolls without slipping along the insid ...
* Lune (mathematics), Lune
* Pappus chain
* Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage
* Robbins pentagon
* Salinon
* Semicircle
* Squircle
* Steiner chain
*
Tangential quadrilateral
In Euclidean geometry, a tangential quadrilateral (sometimes just tangent quadrilateral) or circumscribed quadrilateral is a convex quadrilateral whose sides all can be tangent to a single circle within the quadrilateral. This circle is called the ...
** Bicentric quadrilateral
Glyphs and symbols
* Borromean rings
* Crescent
* Vesica piscis
* Arc (geometry), Arc
*
Caustic
Caustic most commonly refers to:
* Causticity, a property of various corrosive substances
** Sodium hydroxide, sometimes called ''caustic soda''
** Potassium hydroxide, sometimes called ''caustic potash''
** Calcium oxide, sometimes called ''caus ...
*
Cissoid
In geometry, a cissoid (() is a plane curve generated from two given curves , and a point (the pole). Let be a variable line passing through and intersecting at and at . Let be the point on so that \overline = \overline. (There are actua ...
*
Conchoid
* Cubic Hermite curve
* Curve of constant width
* Hedgehog (curve), hedgehog
* Parametric curve
**
Bézier curve
A Bézier curve ( ) is a parametric curve used in computer graphics and related fields. A set of discrete "control points" defines a smooth, continuous curve by means of a formula. Usually the curve is intended to approximate a real-world shape t ...
** Spline (mathematics), Spline
*** Hermite spline
**** Beta spline
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B-spline
*** Higher-order spline
*** NURBS
* Line (mathematics)#Ray, Ray
*
Reuleaux triangle
* Ribaucour curve
References
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