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In geometry, a tesseract or 4-cube is a four-dimensional hypercube, analogous to a two-dimensional square and a three-dimensional cube. [1] Just as the perimeter of the square consists of four edges and the surface of the cube consists of six square faces , the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of eight cubical cells , meeting at right ...
A hexagon bisects the cube into two copies of a simple polyhedron with one hexagonal face, three isosceles right triangle faces, and three irregular pentagonal faces. It is not possible to form a simple polyhedron using only three triangles and three pentagons, without the added hexagon.
A cube, for example, is a regular hexahedron with all its faces square, and three squares around each vertex. There are seven topologically distinct convex hexahedra, [1] one of which exists in two mirror image forms. Additional non-convex hexahedra exist, with their number depending on how polyhedra are defined.
Because all the faces of the cC have an even number of sides and are centrally symmetric, it is a zonohedron: Chamfered cube (3 zones are shown by 3 colors for their hexagons — each square is in 2 zones —.) The chamfered cube is also the Goldberg polyhedron GP IV (2,0) or {4+,3} 2,0, containing square and hexagonal faces.
Vertex, edge and face of a cube. The Euler characteristic χ was classically defined for the surfaces of polyhedra, according to the formula = + where V, E, and F are respectively the numbers of vertices (corners), edges and faces in the given polyhedron. Any convex polyhedron's surface has Euler characteristic
3D model of a truncated cube. In geometry, the truncated cube, or truncated hexahedron, is an Archimedean solid. It has 14 regular faces (6 octagonal and 8 triangular), 36 edges, and 24 vertices. If the truncated cube has unit edge length, its dual triakis octahedron has edges of lengths 2 and δ S +1, where δ S is the silver ratio, √ 2 +1.
This decomposition is based on a Petrie polygon projection of an 8-cube, with 28 of 1792 faces. The list OEIS : A006245 enumerates the number of solutions as 1232944, including up to 16-fold rotations and chiral forms in reflection.
Since each of its faces has point symmetry the truncated octahedron is a 6-zonohedron. It is also the Goldberg polyhedron G IV (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. [1]