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Parallelohedron
In geometry, a parallelohedron or Fedorov polyhedron is a convex polyhedron that can be Translation (geometry), translated without rotations to fill Euclidean space, producing a Honeycomb (geometry), honeycomb in which all copies of the polyhedron meet face-to-face. Evgraf Fedorov identified the five types of parallelohedron in 1885 in his studies of crystallographic systems. They are the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, elongated dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron. Each parallelohedron is centrally symmetric with symmetric faces, making it a special case of a zonohedron. Each parallelohedron is also a stereohedron, a polyhedron that tiles space so that isohedral tiling, all tiles are symmetric. The centers of the tiles in a tiling of space by parallelohedra form a Bravais lattice, and every Bravais lattice can be formed in this way. Adjusting the lengths of parallel edges in a parallelohedron, or performing an affine transformation of the parallelohedron, resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeycomb (geometry)
In geometry, a honeycomb is a ''space filling'' or ''close packing'' of polyhedron, polyhedral or higher-dimensional ''cells'', so that there are no gaps. It is an example of the more general mathematical ''tiling'' or ''tessellation'' in any number of dimensions. Its dimension can be clarified as ''n''-honeycomb for a honeycomb of ''n''-dimensional space. Honeycombs are usually constructed in ordinary Euclidean geometry, Euclidean ("flat") space. They may also be constructed in non-Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean spaces, such as #Hyperbolic honeycombs, hyperbolic honeycombs. Any finite uniform polytope can be projected to its circumsphere to form a uniform honeycomb in spherical space. Classification There are infinitely many honeycombs, which have only been partially classified. The more regular ones have attracted the most interest, while a rich and varied assortment of others continue to be discovered. The simplest honeycombs to build are formed from stacked layers or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stereohedron
In geometry and crystallography, a stereohedron is a convex polyhedron that isohedral tiling, fills space isohedrally, meaning that the symmetries of the tiling take any copy of the stereohedron to any other copy. Two-dimensional analogues to the stereohedra are called planigons. Higher dimensional polytopes can also be stereohedra, while they would more accurately be called stereotopes. Plesiohedra A subset of stereohedra are called plesiohedrons, defined as the Voronoi diagram, Voronoi cells of a symmetric Delone set. Parallelohedrons are plesiohedra which are space-filling by translation only. Edges here are colored as parallel vectors. Other periodic stereohedra The catoptric tessellation contain stereohedra cells. Dihedral angles are integer divisors of 180°, and are colored by their order. The first three are the fundamental domains of _3, _3, and _3 symmetry, represented by Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams: , and . _3 is a half symmetry of _3, and _3 is a quarter symmetry. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zonohedron
In geometry, a zonohedron is a convex polyhedron that is point symmetry, centrally symmetric, every face of which is a polygon that is centrally symmetric (a zonogon). Any zonohedron may equivalently be described as the Minkowski addition, Minkowski sum of a set of line segments in three-dimensional space, or as a three-dimensional Projection (mathematics), projection of a hypercube. Zonohedra were originally defined and studied by Evgraf Stepanovich Fyodorov, E. S. Fedorove, a Russian Crystallography, crystallographer. More generally, in any dimension, the Minkowski sum of line segments forms a polytope known as a zonotope. Zonohedra that tile space The original motivation for studying zonohedra is that the Voronoi diagram of any Lattice (group), lattice forms a convex uniform honeycomb in which the cells are zonohedra. Any zonohedron formed in this way can Honeycomb (geometry), tessellate 3-dimensional space and is called a primary parallelohedron. Each primary parallelohedron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elongated Dodecahedron
In geometry, the elongated dodecahedron, extended rhombic dodecahedron, rhombo-hexagonal dodecahedron or hexarhombic dodecahedron is a convex dodecahedron with 8 Rhombus, rhombic and 4 hexagonal faces. The hexagons can be made equilateral, or regular depending on the shape of the rhombi. It can be seen as constructed from a rhombic dodecahedron elongation (geometry), elongated by a square prism. Parallelohedron Along with the rhombic dodecahedron, it is a space-filling polyhedron, one of the five types of parallelohedron identified by Evgraf Fedorov that Honeycomb (geometry), tile space face-to-face by translations. It has 5 sets of parallel edges, called zones or belts. : Tessellation * It can tesselate all space by translations. * It is the Wigner–Seitz cell for certain Bravais lattice, body-centered tetragonal lattices. This is related to the rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb with an elongation of zero. Projected normal to the elongation direction, the honeycomb looks li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhombic Dodecahedron
In geometry, the rhombic dodecahedron is a Polyhedron#Convex_polyhedra, convex polyhedron with 12 congruence (geometry), congruent rhombus, rhombic face (geometry), faces. It has 24 edge (geometry), edges, and 14 vertex (geometry), vertices of 2 types. As a Catalan solid, it is the dual polyhedron of the cuboctahedron. As a parallelohedron, the rhombic dodecahedron can be used to Honeycomb (geometry), tesselate its copies in space creating a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb. There are some variations of the rhombic dodecahedron, one of which is the Bilinski dodecahedron. There are some stellations of the rhombic dodecahedron, one of which is the Escher's solid. The rhombic dodecahedron may also appear in nature (such as in the garnet crystal), the architectural philosophies, practical usages, and toys. As a Catalan solid Metric properties The rhombic dodecahedron is a polyhedron with twelve rhombus, rhombi, each of which long face-diagonal length is exactly \sqrt times the sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhombo-hexagonal Dodecahedron
In geometry, the elongated dodecahedron, extended rhombic dodecahedron, rhombo-hexagonal dodecahedron or hexarhombic dodecahedron is a convex dodecahedron with 8 Rhombus, rhombic and 4 hexagonal faces. The hexagons can be made equilateral, or regular depending on the shape of the rhombi. It can be seen as constructed from a rhombic dodecahedron elongation (geometry), elongated by a square prism. Parallelohedron Along with the rhombic dodecahedron, it is a space-filling polyhedron, one of the five types of parallelohedron identified by Evgraf Fedorov that Honeycomb (geometry), tile space face-to-face by translations. It has 5 sets of parallel edges, called zones or belts. : Tessellation * It can tesselate all space by translations. * It is the Wigner–Seitz cell for certain Bravais lattice, body-centered tetragonal lattices. This is related to the rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb with an elongation of zero. Projected normal to the elongation direction, the honeycomb looks li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Square (geometry), squares), 36 edges, and 24 vertices. Since each of its faces has point symmetry the truncated octahedron is a 6-zonohedron. It is also the Goldberg polyhedron GIV(1,1), containing square and hexagonal faces. Like the cube, it can tessellate (or "pack") 3-dimensional space, as a permutohedron. The truncated octahedron was called the "mecon" by Buckminster Fuller. Its dual polyhedron is the tetrakis hexahedron. If the original truncated octahedron has unit edge length, its dual tetrakis hexahedron has edge lengths and . Classifications As an Archimedean solid A truncated octahedron is constructed from a regular octahedron by cutting off all vertices. This resulting polyhedron has six squares and eight hexagons, leaving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plesiohedron
In geometry, a plesiohedron is a special kind of space-filling polyhedron, defined as the Voronoi cell of a symmetric Delone set. Three-dimensional Euclidean space can be completely filled by copies of any one of these shapes, with no overlaps. The resulting honeycomb will have symmetries that take any copy of the plesiohedron to any other copy. The plesiohedra include such well-known shapes as the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron. The largest number of faces that a plesiohedron can have is 38. Definition A set S of points in Euclidean space is a Delone set if there exists a number \varepsilon>0 such that every two points of S are at least at distance \varepsilon apart from each other and such that every point of space is within distance 1/\varepsilon of at least one point in S. So S fills space, but its points never come too close to each other. For this to be true, S must be infinite. Additionally, the set S is symmetric (in the sense needed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convex Polyhedron
In geometry, a polyhedron (: polyhedra or polyhedrons; ) is a three-dimensional figure with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices. The term "polyhedron" may refer either to a solid figure or to its boundary surface. The terms solid polyhedron and polyhedral surface are commonly used to distinguish the two concepts. Also, the term ''polyhedron'' is often used to refer implicitly to the whole structure formed by a solid polyhedron, its polyhedral surface, its faces, its edges, and its vertices. There are many definitions of polyhedron. Nevertheless, the polyhedron is typically understood as a generalization of a two-dimensional polygon and a three-dimensional specialization of a polytope, a more general concept in any number of dimensions. Polyhedra have several general characteristics that include the number of faces, topological classification by Euler characteristic, duality, vertex figures, surface area, volume, interior lines, Dehn invar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
