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Regular tetrahedra alone do not tessellate (fill space), but if alternated with regular octahedra in the ratio of two tetrahedra to one octahedron, they form the alternated cubic honeycomb, which is a tessellation. Some tetrahedra that are not regular, including the Schläfli orthoscheme and the Hill tetrahedron, can tessellate.
The elements of a polytope can be considered according to either their own dimensionality or how many dimensions "down" they are from the body.
The polytopes of rank 2 (2-polytopes) are called polygons.Regular polygons are equilateral and cyclic.A p-gonal regular polygon is represented by Schläfli symbol {p}.. Many sources only consider convex polygons, but star polygons, like the pentagram, when considered, can also be regular.
Tessellation using Texas-shaped non-convex 12-sided polygons. If only one shape of tile is allowed, tilings exist with convex N-gons for N equal to 3, 4, 5, and 6. For N = 5, see Pentagonal tiling, for N = 6, see Hexagonal tiling, for N = 7, see Heptagonal tiling and for N = 8, see octagonal tiling.
Within that plane, every triangle, irrespective of regularity, will tessellate. In contrast, regular pentagons do not tessellate. However, irregular pentagons, with different sides and angles can tessellate. There are 15 irregular convex pentagons that tile the plane. [6] Polyhedra are the three dimensional correlates of polygons.
3D model of a rhombic dodecahedron. In geometry, the rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 12 congruent rhombic faces.It has 24 edges, and 14 vertices of 2 types. As a Catalan solid, it is the dual polyhedron of the cuboctahedron.
Platonic solids are often used to make dice, because dice of these shapes can be made fair. 6-sided dice are very common, but the other numbers are commonly used in role-playing games. Such dice are commonly referred to as d n where n is the number of faces (d8, d20, etc.); see dice notation for more details.
Quadrilateral – 4 sides Cyclic quadrilateral; Kite. Rectangle; Rhomboid; Rhombus; Square (regular quadrilateral) Tangential quadrilateral; Trapezoid. Isosceles trapezoid; Trapezus; Pentagon – 5 sides; Hexagon – 6 sides Lemoine hexagon; Heptagon – 7 sides; Octagon – 8 sides; Nonagon – 9 sides; Decagon – 10 sides; Hendecagon – 11 ...