6-cube

Rectified 6-cube

Birectified 6-cube

Birectified 6-orthoplex

Rectified 6-orthoplex

6-orthoplex
Orthogonal projections in B6 Coxeter plane

In six-dimensional geometry, a rectified 6-cube is a convex uniform 6-polytope, being a rectification of the regular 6-cube.

There are unique 6 degrees of rectifications, the zeroth being the 6-cube, and the 6th and last being the 6-orthoplex. Vertices of the rectified 6-cube are located at the edge-centers of the 6-cube. Vertices of the birectified 6-cube are located in the square face centers of the 6-cube.

Rectified 6-cube

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Rectified 6-cube
Typeuniform 6-polytope
Schläfli symbolt1{4,34} or r{4,34}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams =
5-faces76
4-faces444
Cells1120
Faces1520
Edges960
Vertices192
Vertex figure5-cell prism
Petrie polygonDodecagon
Coxeter groupsB6, [3,3,3,3,4]
D6, [33,1,1]
Propertiesconvex

Alternate names

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  • Rectified hexeract (acronym: rax) (Jonathan Bowers)[1]

Construction

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The rectified 6-cube may be constructed from the 6-cube by truncating its vertices at the midpoints of its edges.

Coordinates

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The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of the rectified 6-cube with edge length 2 are all permutations of:

Images

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Orthographic projections
Coxeter plane B6 B5 B4
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Dihedral symmetry [12] [10] [8]
Coxeter plane B3 B2
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Dihedral symmetry [6] [4]
Coxeter plane A5 A3
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Dihedral symmetry [6] [4]

Birectified 6-cube

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Birectified 6-cube
Typeuniform 6-polytope
Coxeter symbol0311
Schläfli symbolt2{4,34} or 2r{4,34}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams =
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5-faces76
4-faces636
Cells2080
Faces3200
Edges1920
Vertices240
Vertex figure{4}x{3,3} duoprism
Coxeter groupsB6, [3,3,3,3,4]
D6, [33,1,1]
Propertiesconvex

Alternate names

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  • Birectified hexeract (acronym: brox) (Jonathan Bowers)[2]
  • Rectified 6-demicube

Construction

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The birectified 6-cube may be constructed from the 6-cube by truncating its vertices at the midpoints of its edges.

Coordinates

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The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of the rectified 6-cube with edge length 2 are all permutations of:

Images

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Orthographic projections
Coxeter plane B6 B5 B4
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Dihedral symmetry [12] [10] [8]
Coxeter plane B3 B2
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Dihedral symmetry [6] [4]
Coxeter plane A5 A3
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Dihedral symmetry [6] [4]
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Notes

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References

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  • H.S.M. Coxeter:
    • H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd edition, Dover, New York, 1973
    • Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivić Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, wiley.com, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6
      • (Paper 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes I, [Math. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380–407, MR 2,10]
      • (Paper 23) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II, [Math. Zeit. 188 (1985) 559–591]
      • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3–45]
  • Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
    • N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D.
  • Klitzing, Richard. "6D uniform polytopes (polypeta) with acronyms". o3o3o3o3x4o - rax, o3o3o3x3o4o - brox
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Family An Bn I2(p) / Dn E6 / E7 / E8 / F4 / G2 Hn
Regular polygon Triangle Square p-gon Hexagon Pentagon
Uniform polyhedron Tetrahedron OctahedronCube Demicube DodecahedronIcosahedron
Uniform polychoron Pentachoron 16-cellTesseract Demitesseract 24-cell 120-cell600-cell
Uniform 5-polytope 5-simplex 5-orthoplex5-cube 5-demicube
Uniform 6-polytope 6-simplex 6-orthoplex6-cube 6-demicube 122221
Uniform 7-polytope 7-simplex 7-orthoplex7-cube 7-demicube 132231321
Uniform 8-polytope 8-simplex 8-orthoplex8-cube 8-demicube 142241421
Uniform 9-polytope 9-simplex 9-orthoplex9-cube 9-demicube
Uniform 10-polytope 10-simplex 10-orthoplex10-cube 10-demicube
Uniform n-polytope n-simplex n-orthoplexn-cube n-demicube 1k22k1k21 n-pentagonal polytope
Topics: Polytope familiesRegular polytopeList of regular polytopes and compoundsPolytope operations