Heptagonal bipyramid

Heptagonal bipyramid
Typebipyramid
Schläfli symbol{ } + {7}
Coxeter diagram
Faces14 triangles
Edges21
Vertices9
Face configurationV4.4.7
Symmetry groupD7h, [7,2], (*227), order 28
Rotation groupD7, [7,2]+, (227), order 14
Dualheptagonal prism
Propertiesconvex, face-transitive

The heptagonal bipyramid is one of the infinite set of bipyramids, dual to the infinite prisms. If an heptagonal bipyramid is to be face-transitive, all faces must be isosceles triangles.The resulting solid has 14 triangular faces, 9 vertices and 21 edges.[1][2]

Related polyhedra

Family of bipyramids
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12...
As spherical polyhedra

References

  1. Heptagonal Dipyramid dmccooey.com [2014-6-23]
  2. Pugh, Anthony (1976), Polyhedra: A Visual Approach, University of California Press, pp. 21, 27, 62, ISBN 9780520030565.

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