Cantellated 24-cell

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24-cell

Cantellated 24-cell

Cantitruncated 24-cell
Orthogonal projections in F4 Coxeter plane

In four-dimensional geometry, a cantellated 24-cell is a convex uniform polychoron, being a cantellation (a 2nd order truncation) of the regular 24-cell.

There are 2 unique degrees of cantellations of the 24-cell including with permutations truncations.


Cantellated 24-cell

Cantellated 24-cell
Type Uniform polychoron
Schläfli symbol rr{3,4,3}
s2{3,4,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Cells 144 24 (3.4.4.4)
24 (3.4.3.4)

96 (3.4.4)

Faces 720 288 triangles
432 squares
Edges 864
Vertices 288
Vertex figure
Irreg. triangular prism
Symmetry group F4, [3,4,3]
Properties convex
Uniform index 24 25 26

The cantellated 24-cell is a uniform polychoron.

The boundary of the cantellated 24-cell is composed of 24 truncated octahedral cells, 24 cuboctahedral cells and 96 triangular prisms. Together they have 288 triangular faces, 432 square faces, 864 edges, and 288 vertices.

Construction

When the cantellation process is applied to 24-cell, each of the 24 octahedra becomes a small rhombicuboctahedron. In addition however, since each octahedra's edge was previously shared with two other octahedra, the separating edges form the three parallel edges of a triangular prism - 96 triangular prisms, since the 24-cell contains 96 edges. Further, since each vertex was previously shared with 12 faces, the vertex would split into 12 (24*12=288) new vertices. Each group of 12 new vertices forms a cuboctahedron.

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of the cantellated 24-cell having edge length 2 are all permutations of coordinates and sign of:

(0, √2, √2, 2+2√2)
(1, 1+√2, 1+√2, 1+2√2)

The permutations of the second set of coordinates coincide with the vertices of an inscribed runcitruncated tesseract.

The dual configuration has all permutations and signs of:

(0,2,2+√2,2+√2)
(1,1,1+√2,3+√2)

Structure

The 24 small rhombicuboctahedra are joined to each other via their triangular faces, to the cuboctahedra via their axial square faces, and to the triangular prisms via their off-axial square faces. The cuboctahedra are joined to the triangular prisms via their triangular faces. Each triangular prism is joined to two cuboctahedra at its two ends.

cantic snub 24-cell

A half-symmetry construction of the cantellated 24-cell, also called a cantic snub 24-cell, as , has an identical geometry, but its triangular faces are further subdivided. The cantellated 24-cell has 2 positions of triangular faces in ratio of 96 and 192, while the cantic snub 24-cell has 3 positions of 96 triangles.

The difference can be seen in the vertex figures, with edges representing faces in the polychoron:



Images

orthographic projections
Coxeter plane F4
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [12]
Coxeter plane B3 / A2 (a) B3 / A2 (b)
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [6] [6]
Coxeter plane B4 B2 / A2
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [8] [4]
Schlegel diagrams

Schlegel diagram

Showing 24 cuboctahedra.

Showing 96 triangular prisms.

Cantitruncated 24-cell

Cantitruncated 24-cell

Schlegel diagram, centered on truncated cuboctahedron
Type Uniform polychoron
Schläfli symbol tr{3,4,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Cells 144 24 4.6.8
96 4.4.3
24 3.8.8
Faces 720 192{3}
288{4}
96{6}
144{8}
Edges 1152
Vertices 576
Vertex figure
sphenoid
Symmetry group F4, [3,4,3]
Properties convex
Uniform index 27 28 29

The cantitruncated 24-cell is a uniform polychoron derived from the 24-cell. It is bounded by 24 truncated cuboctahedra corresponding with the cells of a 24-cell, 24 truncated cubes corresponding with the cells of the dual 24-cell, and 96 triangular prisms corresponding with the edges of the first 24-cell.

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of a cantitruncated 24-cell having edge length 2 are all permutations of coordinates and sign of:

(1,1+√2,1+2√2,3+3√2)
(0,2+√2,2+2√2,2+3√2)

The dual configuration has coordinates as all permutations and signs of:

(1,1+√2,1+√2,5+2√2)
(1,3+√2,3+√2,3+2√2)
(2,2+√2,2+√2,4+2√2)

Projections

orthographic projections
Coxeter plane F4
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [12]
Coxeter plane B3 / A2 (a) B3 / A2 (b)
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [6] [6]
Coxeter plane B4 B2 / A2
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [8] [4]
Stereographic projection

Related polytopes

Name 24-cell truncated 24-cell snub 24-cell rectified 24-cell cantellated 24-cell bitruncated 24-cell cantitruncated 24-cell runcinated 24-cell runcitruncated 24-cell omnitruncated 24-cell
Schläfli
symbol
{3,4,3} t0,1{3,4,3}
t{3,4,3}
s{3,4,3} t1{3,4,3}
r{3,4,3}
t0,2{3,4,3}
rr{3,4,3}
t1,2{3,4,3}
2t{3,4,3}
t0,1,2{3,4,3}
tr{3,4,3}
t0,3{3,4,3} t0,1,3{3,4,3} t0,1,2,3{3,4,3}
Coxeter
diagram
Schlegel
diagram
F4
B4
B3(a)
B3(b)
B2

References

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