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In analogy with the cross-section of a solid, the cross-section of an n-dimensional body in an n-dimensional space is the non-empty intersection of the body with a hyperplane (an (n − 1)-dimensional subspace). This concept has sometimes been used to help visualize aspects of higher dimensional spaces. [7]
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 icosidodecahedron is the equatorial cross-section of the 600-cell, and the decagon is the equatorial cross-section of the icosidodecahedron.) These radially golden polytopes can be constructed, with their radii, from golden triangles which meet at the center, each contributing two radii and an edge.
A polyhedral prism is a 4-dimensional prism made from two translated polyhedra connected by 3-dimensional prism cells. A regular polyhedron {p,q} can construct the uniform polychoric prism, represented by the product {p,q}×{ }. If the polyhedron and the sides are cubes, it becomes a tesseract: {4,3}×{ } = {4,3,3}.
Uniform polyhedra: Decagonal prism – 10 squares, 2 decagons, D 10h symmetry, order 40. Pentagonal antiprism – 10 equilateral triangles, 2 pentagons, D 5d symmetry, order 20; Johnson solids (regular faced): Pentagonal cupola – 5 triangles, 5 squares, 1 pentagon, 1 decagon, C 5v symmetry, order 10; Snub disphenoid – 12 triangles, D 2d ...
The ten-of-diamonds can be dissected in an octagonal cross-section between the two rhombic faces. It is a decahedron with 12 vertices, 20 edges, and 10 faces (4 triangles, 4 trapezoids, 1 rhombus, and 1 isotoxal octagon). Michael Goldberg labels this polyhedron 10-XXV, the 25th in a list of space-filling decahedra. [2]
The diagonal of a matrix denotes the number of each element that appears in a polyhedron, whereas the non-diagonal of a matrix denotes the number of the column's elements that occur in or at the row's element. The rhombic dodecahedron has vertex classes with 8+6, 1 edge class of 24, and 1 face class of 12; each element in a matrix's diagonal.
The regular octahedron can be considered as the antiprism, a prism like polyhedron in which lateral faces are replaced by alternating equilateral triangles. It is also called trigonal antiprism. [21] Therefore, it has the property of quasiregular, a polyhedron in which two different polygonal faces are alternating and meet at a vertex. [22]