Rectified 24-cell honeycomb

Rectified 24-cell honeycomb
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TypeUniform 4-honeycomb
Schläfli symbolr{3,4,3,3}
rr{3,3,4,3}
r2r{4,3,3,4}
r2r{4,3,31,1}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams





4-face typeTesseract
Rectified 24-cell
Cell typeCube
Cuboctahedron
Face typeSquare
Triangle
Vertex figure
Tetrahedral prism
Coxeter groups{\tilde{F}}_4, [3,4,3,3]
{\tilde{C}}_4, [4,3,3,4]
{\tilde{B}}_4, [4,3,31,1]
{\tilde{D}}_4, [31,1,1,1]
PropertiesVertex transitive

In four-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the rectified 24-cell honeycomb is a uniform space-filling honeycomb. It is constructed by a rectification of the regular 24-cell honeycomb, containing tesseract and rectified 24-cell cells.

Alternate names

Symmetry constructions

There are five different symmetry constructions of this tessellation. Each symmetry can be represented by different arrangements of colored rectified 24-cell and tesseract facets. The tetrahedral prism vertex figure contains 4 rectified 24-cells capped by two opposite tesseracts.

Coxeter group Coxeter
diagram		 Facets Vertex figure Vertex
figure
symmetry
(order)
{\tilde{F}}_4
= [3,4,3,3]		 4:
1: 		, [3,3,2]
(48)
{\tilde{F}}_4
= [3,3,4,3]		 3:
1:
1: 		, [3,2]
(12)
{\tilde{C}}_4
= [4,3,3,4]		 2,2:
1: 		, [2,2]
(8)
{\tilde{B}}_4
= [31,1,3,4]		 1,1:
2:
1: 		, [2]
(4)
{\tilde{D}}_4
= [31,1,1,1]		 1,1,1,1:

1: 		, []
(2)

Related honeycombs

The [3,4,3,3], , Coxeter group generates 31 permutations of uniform tessellations, 28 are unique in this family and ten are shared in the [4,3,3,4] and [4,3,31,1] families. The alternation (13) is also repeated in other families.

Extended
symmetry		 Extended
diagram		 Order Honeycombs
[3,3,4,3]×1

1, 3, 5, 6, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12

[3,4,3,3]×1

2, 4, 7, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17,
18, 19, 20, 21,
22 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28, 29

[(3,3)[3,3,4,3*]]
=[(3,3)[31,1,1,1]]
=[3,4,3,3]
=
= 		×4

(2), (4), (7), (13)

The [4,3,3,4], , Coxeter group generates 31 permutations of uniform tessellations, 21 with distinct symmetry and 20 with distinct geometry. The expanded tesseractic honeycomb (also known as the stericated tesseractic honeycomb) is geometrically identical to the tesseractic honeycomb. Three of the symmetric honeycombs are shared in the [3,4,3,3] family. Two alternations (13) and (17), and the quarter tesseractic (2) are repeated in other families.

Extended
symmetry		 Extended
diagram		 Order Honeycombs
[4,3,3,4]: ×1

1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12,
13

[[4,3,3,4]] ×2 (1), (2), (13), 18
(6), 19, 20
[(3,3)[1+,4,3,3,4,1+]]
= [(3,3)[31,1,1,1]]
= [3,4,3,3]
=
= 		×6

14, 15, 16, 17

The [4,3,31,1], , Coxeter group generates 31 permutations of uniform tessellations, 23 with distinct symmetry and 4 with distinct geometry. There are two alternated forms: the alternations (19) and (24) have the same geometry as the 16-cell honeycomb and snub 24-cell honeycomb respectively.

Extended
symmetry		 Extended
diagram		 Order Honeycombs
[4,3,31,1]: ×1

5, 6, 7, 8

<[4,3,31,1]>:
=[4,3,3,4]
= 		×2

9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,

(10), 15, 16, (13), 17, 18, 19

[3[1+,4,3,31,1]]
= [3[3,31,1,1]]
= [3,3,4,3]
=
= 		×3

1, 2, 3, 4

[(3,3)[1+,4,3,31,1]]
= [(3,3)[31,1,1,1]]
= [3,4,3,3]
=
= 		×12

20, 21, 22, 23

This honeycomb is one of ten uniform honeycombs constructed by the {\tilde{D}}_4 Coxeter group, all repeated in other families by extended symmetry, seen in the graph symmetry of rings in the Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams. The 10th is constructed as an alternation. As subgroups in Coxeter notation: [3,4,(3,3)*] (index 24), [3,3,4,3*] (index 6), [1+,4,3,3,4,1+] (index 4), [31,1,3,4,1+] (index 2) are all isomorphic to [31,1,1,1]. The ten permutations are listed with its highest extended symmetry relation:

Extended
symmetry		 Extended
diagram		 Order Honeycombs
[31,1,1,1] ×1 (none)
<[31,1,1,1]>
= [31,1,3,4]
= 		×2 (none)
<<[1,131,1]>>
= [4,3,3,4]
= 		×4 1, 2
[3[3,31,1,1]]
= [3,4,3,3]
= 		×6 3, 4, 5, 6
[<<[1,131,1]>>]
= [[4,3,3,4]]
= 		×8 7, 8, 9, 10
[(3,3)[31,1,1,1]]
= [3,3,4,3]
= 		×24

See also

Regular and uniform honeycombs in 4-space:

References