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The 600-cell is the fifth in the sequence of 6 convex regular 4-polytopes (in order of complexity and size at the same radius). [a] It can be deconstructed into twenty-five overlapping instances of its immediate predecessor the 24-cell, [5] as the 24-cell can be deconstructed into three overlapping instances of its predecessor the tesseract (8-cell), and the 8-cell can be deconstructed into ...
A plane containing a cross-section of the solid may be referred to as a cutting plane. The shape of the cross-section of a solid may depend upon the orientation of the cutting plane to the solid. For instance, while all the cross-sections of a ball are disks, [2] the cross-sections of a cube depend on how the cutting plane is related to the ...
In geometry, a polyhedron (pl.: polyhedra or polyhedrons; from Greek πολύ (poly-) 'many' and ἕδρον (-hedron) 'base, seat') 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 resulting polyhedron has 20 equilateral triangles as its faces, 30 edges, and 12 vertices. It is an example of a Platonic solid and of a deltahedron. The icosahedral graph represents the skeleton of a regular icosahedron. Many polyhedra are constructed from the regular icosahedron.
A central cross section of a regular tetrahedron is a square. The two skew perpendicular opposite edges of a regular tetrahedron define a set of parallel planes. When one of these planes intersects the tetrahedron the resulting cross section is a rectangle. [11] When the intersecting plane is near one of the edges the rectangle is long and skinny.
The solid angle of a latitude-longitude rectangle on a globe is ( ) (), where φ N and φ S are north and south lines of latitude (measured from the equator in radians with angle increasing northward), and θ E and θ W are east and west lines of longitude (where the angle in radians increases eastward). [10]
Elongated indicates a prism is joined to the base of the solid, or between the bases; gyroelongated indicates an antiprism. Augmented indicates another polyhedron, namely a pyramid or cupola, is joined to one or more faces of the solid in question. Diminished indicates a pyramid or cupola is removed from one or more faces of the solid in question.
Section 8 is the central section, the largest hull, with the same radius as the 120-cell. Except for the central section 8, the sections occur in parallel pairs, on either side of the central section. Hull 8 is dimensionally analogous to the equator, while hulls 1 - 7 are dimensionally analogous to lines of latitude.