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In solid geometry, a face is a flat surface (a planar region) that forms part of the boundary of a solid object. For example, a cube has six faces in this sense. In more modern treatments of the geometry of polyhedra and higher-dimensional polytopes, a "face" is defined in such a way that it may have any dimension. The vertices, edges, and (2-dimensional) faces of a polyhedron are all faces in this more general sense. Polygonal face In elementary geometry, a face is a polygon on the boundary of a polyhedron. (Here a "polygon" should be viewed as including the 2-dimensional region inside it.) Other names for a polygonal face include polyhedron side and Euclidean plane ''tile''. For example, any of the six squares that bound a cube is a face of the cube. Sometimes "face" is also used to refer to the 2-dimensional features of a 4-polytope. With this meaning, the 4-dimensional tesseract has 24 square faces, each sharing two of 8 cubic cells. Number of polygonal faces of a polyhedr ...
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List Of Regular Polytopes
This article lists the regular polytopes in Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic spaces. Overview This table shows a summary of regular polytope counts by rank. There are no Euclidean regular star tessellations in any number of dimensions. 1-polytopes There is only one polytope of rank 1 (1-polytope), the closed line segment bounded by its two endpoints. Every realization of this 1-polytope is regular. It has the Schläfli symbol , or a Coxeter diagram with a single ringed node, . Norman Johnson calls it a ''dion'' and gives it the Schläfli symbol . Although trivial as a polytope, it appears as the edges of polygons and other higher dimensional polytopes. It is used in the definition of uniform prisms like Schläfli symbol ×, or Coxeter diagram as a Cartesian product of a line segment and a regular polygon. 2-polytopes (polygons) The polytopes of rank 2 (2-polytopes) are called polygons. Regular polygons are equilateral and cyclic. A -gonal regular polygon is repre ...
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Hypercube
In geometry, a hypercube is an ''n''-dimensional analogue of a square ( ) and a cube ( ); the special case for is known as a ''tesseract''. It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1- skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, perpendicular to each other and of the same length. A unit hypercube's longest diagonal in ''n'' dimensions is equal to \sqrt. An ''n''-dimensional hypercube is more commonly referred to as an ''n''-cube or sometimes as an ''n''-dimensional cube. The term measure polytope (originally from Elte, 1912) is also used, notably in the work of H. S. M. Coxeter who also labels the hypercubes the γn polytopes. The hypercube is the special case of a hyperrectangle (also called an ''n-orthotope''). A ''unit hypercube'' is a hypercube whose side has length one unit. Often, the hypercube whose corners (or ''vertices'') are the 2''n'' points in R''n'' with each coordinate equal to 0 or 1 i ...
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Platonic Solid
In geometry, a Platonic solid is a Convex polytope, convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional space, three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the face (geometry), faces are congruence (geometry), congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edge (geometry), edges congruent), and the same number of faces meet at each Vertex (geometry), vertex. There are only five such polyhedra: Geometers have studied the Platonic solids for thousands of years. They are named for the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who hypothesized in one of his dialogues, the ''Timaeus (dialogue), Timaeus'', that the classical elements were made of these regular solids. History The Platonic solids have been known since antiquity. It has been suggested that certain carved stone balls created by the late Neolithic people of Scotland represent these shapes; however, these balls have rounded knobs rather than being polyhedral, the num ...
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Order-5 Square Tiling
In geometry, the order-5 square tiling is a List_of_regular_polytopes#Hyperbolic_tilings, regular tiling of the Hyperbolic geometry, hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of . Related polyhedra and tiling This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure (4n). This hyperbolic tiling is related to a Infinite_skew_polyhedron#Semiregular_infinite_skew_polyhedra, semiregular infinite skew polyhedron with the same vertex figure in Euclidean 3-space. : References * John Horton Conway, John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, ''The Symmetries of Things'' 2008, (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations) * See also *Square tiling *Uniform tilings in hyperbolic plane *List of regular polytopes *Medial rhombic triacontahedron External links * * Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
* [http://www.plunk.org/~hatch/HyperbolicTesselations Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch] Hyp ...
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H2-5-4-primal
H, or h, is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, including the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''aitch'' (pronounced , plural ''aitches''), or regionally ''haitch'' (pronounced , plural ''haitches'')''.''"H" ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "aitch" or "haitch", op. cit. Name English For most English speakers, the name for the letter is pronounced as and spelled "aitch" or occasionally "eitch". The pronunciation and the associated spelling "haitch" are often considered to be h-adding and are considered non-standard in England. It is, however, a feature of Hiberno-English, and occurs sporadically in various other dialects. The perceived name of the letter affects the choice of indefinite article before initialisms beginning with H: for example "an H-bomb" ...
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Tile 4,4
Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, Rock (geology), stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, walls, edges, or other objects such as tabletops. Alternatively, tile can sometimes refer to similar units made from lightweight materials such as perlite, wood, and mineral wool, typically used for wall and ceiling applications. In another sense, a tile is a construction tile or similar object, such as rectangular counters used in playing games (see tile-based game). The word is derived from the French Language, French word ''tuile'', which is, in turn, from the Latin Language, Latin word ''tegula'', meaning a roof tile composed of fired clay. Tiles are often used to form wall and floor coverings, and can range from simple square tiles to complex or mosaics. Tiles are most often made of pottery, ceramic, typically Ceramic glaze, glazed for ...
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Pentagram
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle around the five points creates a similar symbol referred to as the pentacle, which is used widely by Wiccans and in paganism, or as a sign of life and connections. The word ''pentagram'' comes from the Greek language, Greek word πεντάγραμμον (''pentagrammon''), from πέντε (''pente''), "five" + γραμμή (''grammē''), "line". The word pentagram refers to just the star and the word pentacle refers to the star within a circle, although there is some overlap in usage. The word ''pentalpha'' is a 17th-century revival of a post-classical Greek name of the shape. History Early history Early pentagrams have been found on Sumerian pottery from Ur c. 3500 Common Era, BCE, and the five-pointed star was at various times the symbol of ...
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Small Stellated Dodecahedron
In geometry, the small stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, named by Arthur Cayley, and with Schläfli symbol . It is one of four nonconvex List of regular polytopes#Non-convex 2, regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagrammic faces, with five pentagrams meeting at each vertex. It shares the same vertex arrangement as the convex regular icosahedron. It also shares the same edge arrangement with the great icosahedron, with which it forms Great complex icosidodecahedron, a degenerate uniform compound figure. It is the List of Wenninger polyhedron models#Stellations of dodecahedron, second of four stellations of the dodecahedron (including the original dodecahedron itself). The small stellated dodecahedron can be constructed analogously to the pentagram, its two-dimensional analogue, via the extension of the edges (1-faces) of the core polytope until a point is reached where they intersect. Construction and properties The small stellated dodecahedron is ...
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Hexahedron
A hexahedron (: hexahedra or hexahedrons) or sexahedron (: sexahedra or sexahedrons) is any polyhedron with six faces. A cube, for example, is a regular hexahedron with all its faces square, and three squares around each vertex. There are seven topologically distinct ''convex'' hexahedra, one of which exists in two mirror image forms. Additional non-convex hexahedra exist, with their number depending on how polyhedra are defined. Two polyhedra are "topologically distinct" if they have intrinsically different arrangements of faces and vertices, such that it is impossible to distort one into the other simply by changing the lengths of edges or the angles between edges or faces. Convex Cuboid A hexahedron that is combinatorially equivalent to a cube may be called a cuboid, although this term is often used more specifically to mean a rectangular cuboid, a hexahedron with six rectangular sides. Different types of cuboids include the ones depicted and linked below. Others There a ...
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Order-5 Square Tiling
In geometry, the order-5 square tiling is a List_of_regular_polytopes#Hyperbolic_tilings, regular tiling of the Hyperbolic geometry, hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of . Related polyhedra and tiling This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure (4n). This hyperbolic tiling is related to a Infinite_skew_polyhedron#Semiregular_infinite_skew_polyhedra, semiregular infinite skew polyhedron with the same vertex figure in Euclidean 3-space. : References * John Horton Conway, John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, ''The Symmetries of Things'' 2008, (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations) * See also *Square tiling *Uniform tilings in hyperbolic plane *List of regular polytopes *Medial rhombic triacontahedron External links * * Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
* [http://www.plunk.org/~hatch/HyperbolicTesselations Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch] Hyp ...
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Square Tiling
In geometry, the square tiling, square tessellation or square grid is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane consisting of four squares around every vertex. John Horton Conway called it a quadrille. Structure and properties The square tiling has a structure consisting of one type of congruent prototile, the square, sharing two vertices with other identical ones. This is an example of monohedral tiling. Each vertex at the tiling is surrounded by four squares, which denotes in a vertex configuration as 4.4.4.4 or 4^4 . The vertices of a square can be considered as the lattice, so the square tiling can be formed through the square lattice. This tiling is commonly familiar with the flooring and game boards. It is self-dual, meaning the center of each square connects to another of the adjacent tile, forming square tiling itself. The square tiling acts transitively on the ''flags'' of the tiling. In this case, the flag consists of a mutually incident vertex, edge, and tile ...
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Small Stellated Dodecahedron
In geometry, the small stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, named by Arthur Cayley, and with Schläfli symbol . It is one of four nonconvex List of regular polytopes#Non-convex 2, regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagrammic faces, with five pentagrams meeting at each vertex. It shares the same vertex arrangement as the convex regular icosahedron. It also shares the same edge arrangement with the great icosahedron, with which it forms Great complex icosidodecahedron, a degenerate uniform compound figure. It is the List of Wenninger polyhedron models#Stellations of dodecahedron, second of four stellations of the dodecahedron (including the original dodecahedron itself). The small stellated dodecahedron can be constructed analogously to the pentagram, its two-dimensional analogue, via the extension of the edges (1-faces) of the core polytope until a point is reached where they intersect. Construction and properties The small stellated dodecahedron is ...
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