The 6-demicubic honeycomb or demihexeractic honeycomb is a uniform space-filling

tessellation A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called ''tiles'', with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of ...

(or

honeycomb A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal prismatic wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen. Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey. Honey bees consume about of honey ...

) in Euclidean 6-space. It is constructed as an alternation of the regular 6-cube honeycomb. It is composed of two different types of

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

s. The

6-cube In geometry, a 6-cube is a six-dimensional hypercube with 64 vertices, 192 edges, 240 square faces, 160 cubic cells, 60 tesseract 4-faces, and 12 5-cube 5-faces. It has Schläfli symbol , being composed of 3 5-cubes around each 4-face. It can ...

s become alternated into

6-demicube In geometry, a 6-demicube or demihexteract is a uniform 6-polytope, constructed from a ''6-cube'' ( hexeract) with alternated vertices removed. It is part of a dimensionally infinite family of uniform polytopes called demihypercubes. E. L. Elte ...

s h and the alternated vertices create

6-orthoplex In geometry, a 6-orthoplex, or 6-cross polytope, is a regular 6-polytope with 12 vertices, 60 edges, 160 triangle faces, 240 tetrahedron cells, 192 5-cell ''4-faces'', and 64 ''5-faces''. It has two constructed forms, the first being regular wi ...

facets.

D6 lattice

The

vertex arrangement In geometry, a vertex arrangement is a set of points in space described by their relative positions. They can be described by their use in polytopes. For example, a ''square vertex arrangement'' is understood to mean four points in a plane, equa ...

of the 6-demicubic honeycomb is the D₆ lattice. The 60 vertices of the

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

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of the ''6-demicubic honeycomb'' reflect the

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

60 of this lattice. The best known is 72, from the E₆ lattice and the 2₂₂ honeycomb. The D lattice (also called D) can be constructed by the union of two D₆ lattices. This packing is only a lattice for even dimensions. The kissing number is 2⁵=32 (2^n-1 for n<8, 240 for n=8, and 2n(n-1) for n>8). : ∪ The D lattice (also called D and C) can be constructed by the union of all four 6-demicubic lattices: It is also the 6-dimensional

body centered cubic In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube. This is one of the most common and simplest shapes found in crystals and minerals. There are three main varieties ...

, the union of two 6-cube honeycombs in dual positions. : ∪ ∪ ∪ = ∪ . The

of the D₆^* lattice is 12 (''2n'' for n≥5). and its

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

is a

trirectified 6-cubic 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 ...

, , containing all

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

Voronoi cell In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects. In the simplest case, these objects are just finitely many points in the plane (called seeds, sites, or generators). For each seed ...

, .Conway (1998), p. 466

Symmetry constructions

There are three uniform construction symmetries of this tessellation. Each symmetry can be represented by arrangements of different colors on the 64

facets around each vertex.

Related honeycombs

Notes

External links

* Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of

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

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

** (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, ''Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III'', ath. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45* {{DEFAULTSORT:Demihexeractic Honeycomb Honeycombs (geometry) 7-polytopes

D6 lattice

Symmetry constructions

Related honeycombs

See also

Notes

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