In
hyperbolic geometry, the order-5 cubic honeycomb is one of four compact
regular space-filling
tessellations (or
honeycombs) in
hyperbolic 3-space
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. With
Schläfli symbol it has five
cubes around each
edge, and 20 cubes around each
vertex
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. It is
dual
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with the
order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb.
Description
Symmetry
It has a radial subgroup symmetry construction with
dodecahedral fundamental domains:
Coxeter notation:
*">,(3,5)* index 120.
Related polytopes and honeycombs
The order-5 cubic honeycomb has a related
alternated honeycomb, ↔ , with
icosahedron and
tetrahedron cells.
The honeycomb is also one of four regular compact honeycombs in 3D hyperbolic space:
There are
fifteen uniform honeycombs in the
,3,4 Coxeter group family, including the order-5 cubic honeycomb as the regular form:
The order-5 cubic honeycomb is in a sequence of
regular polychora and honeycombs with
icosahedral vertex figures.
It is also in a sequence of
regular polychora and honeycombs with
cubic
Cubic may refer to:
Science and mathematics
* Cube (algebra), "cubic" measurement
* Cube, a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex
** Cubic crystal system, a crystal system w ...
cells
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* Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life
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. The first polytope in the sequence is the
tesseract
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, and the second is the Euclidean
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 reg ...
.
Rectified order-5 cubic honeycomb
The rectified order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has alternating
icosahedron and
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 ...
cells, with a
pentagonal prism vertex figure.
Related honeycomb
There are four rectified compact regular honeycombs:
Truncated order-5 cubic honeycomb
The truncated order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has
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 ...
and
icosahedron cells, with a
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 r ...
vertex figure.
It can be seen as analogous to the 2D hyperbolic
truncated order-5 square tiling, t, with truncated square and pentagonal faces:
:
It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4)
truncated cubic honeycomb, t, which has octahedral cells at the truncated vertices.
:
Related honeycombs
Bitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb
The bitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb is the same as the
bitruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb.
Cantellated order-5 cubic honeycomb
The cantellated order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has
rhombicuboctahedron,
icosidodecahedron, and
pentagonal prism cells, with a
wedge vertex figure.
Related honeycombs
It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4)
cantellated 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 ...
, rr:
:
Cantitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb
The cantitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has
truncated cuboctahedron,
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 ...
, and
pentagonal prism cells, with a
mirrored sphenoid
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vertex figure.
Related honeycombs
It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4)
cantitruncated cubic honeycomb, tr:
:
Runcinated order-5 cubic honeycomb
The runcinated order-5 cubic honeycomb or runcinated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb , has
cube,
dodecahedron, and
pentagonal prism cells, with an irregular
triangular antiprism
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 ...
vertex figure.
It is analogous to the 2D hyperbolic
rhombitetrapentagonal tiling, rr, with square and pentagonal faces:
:
Related honeycombs
It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4)
runcinated 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 reg ...
, t
0,3:
:
Runcitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb
The runcitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb or runcicantellated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has
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 ...
,
rhombicosidodecahedron,
pentagonal prism, and
octagonal prism cells, with an
isosceles-trapezoidal pyramid vertex figure.
Related honeycombs
It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4)
runcitruncated cubic honeycomb, t
0,1,3:
:
Runcicantellated order-5 cubic honeycomb
The runcicantellated order-5 cubic honeycomb is the same as the
runcitruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb.
Omnitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb
The omnitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb or omnitruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has
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 ...
,
truncated cuboctahedron,
decagonal prism
In geometry, the decagonal prism is the eighth in the infinite set of prisms, formed by ten square side faces and two regular decagon caps. With twelve faces, it is one of many nonregular dodecahedra. The decagonal prism has 12 faces, 30 edges, a ...
, and
octagonal prism cells, with an irregular
tetrahedral
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 ...
vertex figure.
Related honeycombs
It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4)
omnitruncated cubic honeycomb
The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb (geometry), honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cube, cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex ...
, t
0,1,2,3:
:
Alternated order-5 cubic honeycomb
In 3-dimensional hyperbolic geometry, the alternated order-5 cubic honeycomb is a uniform compact space-filling
tessellation (or
honeycomb). With
Schläfli symbol h, it can be considered a
quasiregular honeycomb, alternating
icosahedra
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 ...
and
tetrahedra
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 th ...
around each vertex in an
icosidodecahedron vertex figure.
Related honeycombs
It has 3 related forms: the
cantic order-5 cubic honeycomb, , the
runcic order-5 cubic honeycomb, , and the
runcicantic order-5 cubic honeycomb, .
Cantic order-5 cubic honeycomb
The cantic order-5 cubic honeycomb is a uniform compact space-filling
tessellation (or
honeycomb), with
Schläfli symbol h
2. It has
icosidodecahedron,
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 ...
, and
truncated tetrahedron cells, with a rectangular
pyramid vertex figure.
Runcic order-5 cubic honeycomb
The runcic order-5 cubic honeycomb is a uniform compact space-filling
tessellation (or
honeycomb), with
Schläfli symbol h
3. It has
dodecahedron,
rhombicosidodecahedron, and
tetrahedron cells, with a
triangular frustum vertex figure.
Runcicantic order-5 cubic honeycomb
The runcicantic order-5 cubic honeycomb is a uniform compact space-filling
tessellation (or
honeycomb), with
Schläfli symbol h
2,3. It has
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 ...
,
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 ...
, and
truncated tetrahedron cells, with an irregular
tetrahedron vertex figure.
See also
*
Convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space
*
Regular tessellations of hyperbolic 3-space
References
*
Coxeter, ''
Regular Polytopes
In mathematics, a regular polytope is a polytope whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags, thus giving it the highest degree of symmetry. All its elements or -faces (for all , where is the dimension of the polytope) — cells, f ...
'', 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. . (Tables I and II: Regular polytopes and honeycombs, pp. 294-296)
*
Coxeter, ''The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays'', Dover Publications, 1999 {{isbn, 0-486-40919-8 (Chapter 10: Regular honeycombs in hyperbolic space, Summary tables II,III,IV,V, p212-213)
*
Norman Johnson ''Uniform Polytopes'', Manuscript
**
N.W. Johnson: ''The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs'', Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1966
** N.W. Johnson: ''Geometries and Transformations'', (2015) Chapter 13: Hyperbolic Coxeter groups
Honeycombs (geometry)