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The above embedding divides the cube into five tetrahedra, one of which is regular. In fact, five is the minimum number of tetrahedra required to compose a cube. To see this, starting from a base tetrahedron with 4 vertices, each added tetrahedra adds at most 1 new vertex, so at least 4 more must be added to make a cube, which has 8 vertices.
In geometry, a polyhedron is a solid in three dimensions with flat faces and straight edges. Every edge has exactly two faces, and every vertex is surrounded by alternating faces and edges. The smallest polyhedron is the tetrahedron with 4 triangular faces, 6 edges, and 4 vertices.
Vertex configurations [4] Faces [5] Edges [5] Vertices [5] Point group [6] Truncated tetrahedron: 3.6.6: 4 triangles 4 hexagons: 18 12 T d: Cuboctahedron: 3.4.3.4: 8 triangles 6 squares: 24 12 O h: Truncated cube: 3.8.8: 8 triangles 6 octagons: 36 24 O h: Truncated octahedron: 4.6.6: 6 squares 8 hexagons 36 24 O h: Rhombicuboctahedron: 3.4.4.4 ...
The 5 Platonic solids are called a tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron with 4, 6, 8, 12, and 20 sides respectively. The regular hexahedron is a cube . Table of polyhedra
Two clusters of faces of the bilunabirotunda, the lunes (each lune featuring two triangles adjacent to opposite sides of one square), can be aligned with a congruent patch of faces on the rhombicosidodecahedron. If two bilunabirotundae are aligned this way on opposite sides of the rhombicosidodecahedron, then a cube can be put between the ...
Truncated triangular trapezohedron, also called Dürer's solid: Obtained by truncating two opposite corners of a cube or rhombohedron, this has six pentagon faces and two triangle faces. [27] Octagonal hosohedron: degenerate in Euclidean space, but can be realized spherically. Bricard octahedron with an antiparallelogram as its equator. The ...
Number of vertices V, edges E, Faces F and number of faces by type. Euler characteristic χ = V - E + F The vertex figures are on the left, followed by the Point groups in three dimensions#The seven remaining point groups , either tetrahedral T d , octahedral O h or icosahedral I h .
These finite regular skew polyhedra in 4-space can be seen as a subset of the faces of uniform 4-polytopes. They have planar regular polygon faces, but regular skew polygon vertex figures . Two dual solutions are related to the 5-cell , two dual solutions are related to the 24-cell , and an infinite set of self-dual duoprisms generate regular ...