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Coxeter, Longuet-Higgins & Miller (1954) define uniform polyhedra to be vertex-transitive polyhedra with regular faces. They define a polyhedron to be a finite set of polygons such that each side of a polygon is a side of just one other polygon, such that no non-empty proper subset of the polygons has the same property.
This is a degenerate uniform polyhedron rather than a uniform polyhedron, because some pairs of edges coincide. Not included are: The uniform polyhedron compounds. 40 potential uniform polyhedra with degenerate vertex figures which have overlapping edges (not counted by Coxeter); The uniform tilings (infinite polyhedra)
The uniform polyhedron compounds were first enumerated by John Skilling in 1976, with a proof that the enumeration is complete. The following table lists them according to his numbering. The prismatic compounds of { p / q }- gonal prisms ( UC 20 and UC 21 ) exist only when p / q > 2 , and when p and q are coprime .
A display of uniform polyhedra at the Science Museum in London The small snub icosicosidodecahedron is a uniform star polyhedron, with vertex figure 3 5. 5 / 2 In geometry, a uniform star polyhedron is a self-intersecting uniform polyhedron. They are also sometimes called nonconvex polyhedra to imply self-intersecting.
The illustration here shows the vertex figure (red) of the cuboctahedron being used to derive the corresponding face (blue) of the rhombic dodecahedron.. For a uniform polyhedron, each face of the dual polyhedron may be derived from the original polyhedron's corresponding vertex figure by using the Dorman Luke construction. [2]
The duals of the uniform polyhedra have irregular faces but are face-transitive, and every vertex figure is a regular polygon. A uniform polyhedron has the same symmetry orbits as its dual, with the faces and vertices simply swapped over. The duals of the convex Archimedean polyhedra are sometimes called the Catalan solids.
This category was created to reference the full set of 75 nonprismatic uniform polyhedra, as well as prismatic forms. It is a subset of Category:Polyhedra.. It is a union of 5 Platonic solids, 4 Kepler–Poinsot solids, 13 Archimedean solids, and the infinite prismatic sets in Prismatoid polyhedra, and adds 53 non-convex, non-regular uniform polyhedra.
image of polyhedron; name of polyhedron; alternate names (in brackets) Wythoff symbol; Numbering systems: W - number used by Wenninger in polyhedra models, U - uniform indexing, K - Kaleido indexing, C - numbering used in Coxeter et al. 'Uniform Polyhedra'. Number of vertices V, edges E, Faces F and number of faces by type.