List of H4 polytopes


120-cell

600-cell

In 4-dimensional geometry, there are 15 uniform polytopes with H4 symmetry. Two of these, the 120-cell and 600-cell, are regular form.

Visualizations

Each can be visualized as symmetric orthographic projections in Coxeter planes of the H4 Coxeter group, and other subgroups.

The 3D picture are drawn as Schlegel diagram projections, centered on the cell at pos. 3, with a consistent orientation, and the 5 cells at position 0 are shown solid.

# Name Coxeter plane projections Schlegel diagrams Net
F4
[12]
[20]H4
[30]
H3
[10]
A3
[4]
A2
[3]
Dodecahedron
centered
Tetrahedron
centered
32 120-cell

{5,3,3}
33 rectified 120-cell

r{5,3,3}
34 rectified 600-cell

r{3,3,5}
35 600-cell

{3,3,5}
36 truncated 120-cell

t{5,3,3}
37 cantellated 120-cell

rr{5,3,3}
38 runcinated 120-cell
(also runcinated 600-cell)

t0,3{5,3,3}
39 bitruncated 120-cell
(also bitruncated 600-cell)

t1,2{5,3,3}
40 cantellated 600-cell

t0,2{3,3,5}
41 truncated 600-cell

t{3,3,5}
42 cantitruncated 120-cell

tr{5,3,3}
43 runcitruncated 120-cell

t0,1,3{5,3,3}
44 runcitruncated 600-cell

t0,1,3{3,3,4}
45 cantitruncated 600-cell

tr{3,3,5}
46 omnitruncated 120-cell
(also omnitruncated 600-cell)

t0,1,2,3{5,3,3}
Diminished forms
# Name Coxeter plane projections Schlegel diagrams Net
F4
[12]
[20]H4
[30]
H3
[10]
A3
[4]
A2
[3]
Dodecahedron
centered
Tetrahedron
centered
47 20-diminished 600-cell
(grand antiprism)
31 24-diminished 600-cell
(snub 24-cell)
Nonuniform Bi-24-diminished 600-cell
Nonuniform 120-diminished rectified 600-cell

Coordinates

The coordinates of uniform poyltopes from the H4 family are complicated. The regular ones can be expressed in terms of the golden ratio φ = (1 + √5)/2 and σ = (3√5 + 1)/2. Coxeter expressed them as 5-dimensional coordinates.[1]

n 120-cell 600-cell
4D

The 600 vertices of the 120-cell include all permutations of:[2]

(0, 0, ±2, ±2)
(±1, ±1, ±1, ±√5)
(±φ−2, ±φ, ±φ, ±φ)
(±φ−1, ±φ−1, ±φ−1, ±φ2)

and all even permutations of

(0, ±φ−2, ±1, ±φ2)
(0, ±φ−1, ±φ, ±√5)
(±φ−1, ±1, ±φ, ±2)
The vertices of a 600-cell centered at the origin of 4-space, with edges of length 1/φ (where φ = (1+√5) /2 is the golden ratio), can be given as follows: 16 vertices of the form:[3]
(±½, ±½, ±½, ±½),

and 8 vertices obtained from

(0, 0, 0, ±1) by permuting coordinates.

The remaining 96 vertices are obtained by taking even permutations of

½ (±φ, ±1, ±1/φ, 0).
5D Zero-sum permutation:
(30): (√5,√5,0,-√5,-√5)
(10): ±(4,-1,-1,-1,-1)
(40): ±(φ−1−1−1,2,-σ)
(40): ±(φ,φ,φ,-2,-(σ-1))
(120): ±(φ√5,0,0,φ−1√5,-√5)
(120): ±(2,2,φ−1√5,-φ,-3)
(240): ±(φ2,2φ−1−2,-1,-2φ)
Zero-sum permutation:
(20): (√5,0,0,0,-√5)
(40): ±(φ2−2,-1,-1,-1)
(60): ±(2,φ−1−1,-φ,-φ)

References

  1. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II, Four-dimensional polytopes', p.296-298
  2. Weisstein, Eric W., "120-cell", MathWorld.
  3. Weisstein, Eric W., "600-cell", MathWorld.

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