Hexeract
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Hexeract 6-cube |
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Vertex-Edge graph. | |
Type | Regular 6-polytope |
Family | hypercube |
Schläfli symbol | {4,3,3,3,3} |
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram | |
Facets | 12 penteracts |
Hypercells | 60 tesseracts |
Cells | 160 cubes |
Faces | 240 squares |
Edges | 192 |
Vertices | 64 |
Vertex figure | 5-simplex |
Symmetry group | B6, [3,3,3,3,4] |
Dual | Hexacross |
Properties | convex |
A hexeract is a name for a six-dimensional hypercube with 64 vertices, 192 edges, 240 square faces, 160 cubic cells, 60 tesseract 4-faces, and 12 penteract 5-faces.
The name hexeract is derived from combining the name tesseract (the 4-cube) with hex for six (dimensions) in Greek.
It can also be called a regular dodeca-6-tope or dodecapeton, being made of 12 regular facets.
It is a part of an infinite family of polytopes, called hypercubes. The dual of a penteract can be called a hexacross, and is a part of the infinite family of cross-polytopes.
Applying an alternation operation, deleting alternating vertices of the hexeract, creates another uniform polytope, called a demihexeract, (part of an infinite family called demihypercubes), which has 12 demipenteractic and 32 hexateronic facets.
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[edit] Cartesian coordinates
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a hexeract centered at the origin and edge length 2 are
- (±1,±1,±1,±1,±1,±1)
while the interior of the same consists of all points (x0, x1, x2, x3, x4, x5) with -1 < xi < 1.
[edit] Projections
An orthogonal projection viewed along the axes of two opposite vertices and the average plane of one edge path between. |
[edit] See also
- Other Regular 6-polytopes:
- Heptapeton (6-simplex) - {3,3,3,3,3}
- Hexacross (6-Cross polytope) - {3,3,3,3,4}
- Others in the Hypercubes family
[edit] References
- Coxeter, H.S.M. Regular Polytopes, (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8 p.296, Table I (iii): Regular Polytopes, three regular polytopes in n-dimensions (n>=5)
[edit] External links
- Eric W. Weisstein, Hypercube at MathWorld.
- Olshevsky, George, Measure polytope at Glossary for Hyperspace.
- Multi-dimensional Glossary: hypercube Garrett Jones