Hexeract

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Hexeract
6-cube
Vertex-Edge graph.
Type Regular 6-polytope
Family hypercube
Schläfli symbol {4,3,3,3,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram Image:CDW_ring.pngImage:CDW_4.pngImage:CDW_dot.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.png
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.

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An orthogonal projection viewed along the axes of two opposite vertices and the average plane of one edge path between.

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