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Dual polyhedra to uniform polyhedra are face-transitive (isohedral) and have regular vertex figures, and are generally classified in parallel with their dual (uniform) polyhedron. The dual of a regular polyhedron is regular, while the dual of an Archimedean solid is a Catalan solid .
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.
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]
For a spherical triangle ABC we have four possibilities which will produce a uniform polyhedron: A vertex is placed at the point A. This produces a polyhedron with Wythoff symbol a|b c, where a equals π divided by the angle of the triangle at A, and similarly for b and c. A vertex is placed at a point on line AB so that it bisects the angle at C.
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.
This uniform polyhedron compound is a symmetric arrangement of 6 cubes, considered as square prisms. It can be constructed by superimposing six identical cubes, and then rotating them in pairs about the three axes that pass through the centres of two opposite cubic faces. Each cube is rotated by an equal (and opposite, within a pair) angle θ.
Polyhedron: Class Number and properties Platonic solids (5, convex, regular) Archimedean solids (13, convex, uniform) Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra (4, regular, non-convex) Uniform polyhedra (75, uniform) Prismatoid: prisms, antiprisms etc. (4 infinite uniform classes) Polyhedra tilings (11 regular, in the plane) Quasi-regular polyhedra Johnson solids