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Projective Polyhedra
In geometry, a (globally) projective polyhedron is a tessellation of the real projective plane. These are projective analogs of spherical polyhedra – tessellations of the sphere – and toroidal polyhedra – tessellations of the toroids. Projective polyhedra are also referred to as elliptic tessellations or elliptic tilings, referring to the projective plane as (projective) elliptic geometry, by analogy with spherical tiling, a synonym for "spherical polyhedron". However, the term elliptic geometry applies to both spherical and projective geometries, so the term carries some ambiguity for polyhedra. As cellular decompositions of the projective plane, they have Euler characteristic 1, while spherical polyhedra have Euler characteristic 2. The qualifier "globally" is to contrast with ''locally'' projective polyhedra, which are defined in the theory of abstract polyhedra. Non-overlapping projective polyhedra (density 1) correspond to spherical polyhedra (equivalently, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Geometry
Geometry (; ) is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is called a ''List of geometers, geometer''. Until the 19th century, geometry was almost exclusively devoted to Euclidean geometry, which includes the notions of point (geometry), point, line (geometry), line, plane (geometry), plane, distance, angle, surface (mathematics), surface, and curve, as fundamental concepts. Originally developed to model the physical world, geometry has applications in almost all sciences, and also in art, architecture, and other activities that are related to graphics. Geometry also has applications in areas of mathematics that are apparently unrelated. For example, methods of algebraic geometry are fundamental in Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, Wiles's proof of Fermat's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Relation With Traditional Polyhedra
Relation or relations may refer to: General uses * International relations, the study of interconnection of politics, economics, and law on a global level * Interpersonal relationship, association or acquaintance between two or more people * Public relations, managing the spread of information to the public * Sexual relations, or human sexual activity * Social relation, in social science, any social interaction between two or more individuals Logic and philosophy * Relation (philosophy), links between properties of an object * Relational theory, framework to understand reality or a physical system Mathematics A finitary or ''n''-ary relation is a set of ''n''-tuples. Specific types of relations include: * Relation (mathematics) (an elementary treatment of binary relations) * Binary relation (or diadic relation – a more in-depth treatment of binary relations) * Equivalence relation * Homogeneous relation * Reflexive relation * Serial relation * Ternary relation (or tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Uniform Polyhedra
In geometry, a uniform polyhedron has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive—there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any other. It follows that all vertices are congruent. Uniform polyhedra may be regular (if also face- and edge-transitive), quasi-regular (if also edge-transitive but not face-transitive), or semi-regular (if neither edge- nor face-transitive). The faces and vertices don't need to be convex, so many of the uniform polyhedra are also star polyhedra. There are two infinite classes of uniform polyhedra, together with 75 other polyhedra. They are 2 infinite classes of prisms and antiprisms, the convex polyhedrons as in 5 Platonic solids and 13 Archimedean solids—2 quasiregular and 11 semiregular— the non-convex star polyhedra as in 4 Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra and 53 uniform star polyhedra—14 quasiregular and 39 semiregular. There are also many degenerate uniform polyhedra with pairs of edges that coincide, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hemipolyhedra
In geometry, a hemipolyhedron is a uniform star polyhedron some of whose faces pass through its center. These "hemi" faces lie parallel to the faces of some other symmetrical polyhedron, and their count is half the number of faces of that other polyhedron – hence the "hemi" prefix. The prefix "hemi" is also used to refer to certain projective polyhedra, such as the hemi-cube, which are the image of a 2 to 1 map of a spherical polyhedron with central symmetry. Wythoff symbol and vertex figure Their Wythoff symbols are of the form ''p''/(''p'' − ''q'') ''p''/''q'' , ''r''; their vertex figures are crossed quadrilaterals. They are thus related to the cantellated polyhedra, which have similar Wythoff symbols. The vertex configuration is ''p''/''q''.2''r''.''p''/(''p'' − ''q'').2''r''. The 2''r''-gon faces pass through the center of the model: if represented as faces of spherical polyhedra, they cover an entire hemisphere and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Tetrahemihexahedron
In geometry, the tetrahemihexahedron or hemicuboctahedron is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U4. It has 7 faces (4 triangles and 3 squares), 12 edges, and 6 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. Its Coxeter–Dynkin diagram is (although this is a double covering of the tetrahemihexahedron). The tetrahemihexahedron is the only non-prismatic uniform polyhedron with an odd number of faces. Its Wythoff symbol is 3/2 3 , 2, but that represents a double covering of the tetrahemihexahedron with eight triangles and six squares, paired and coinciding in space. (It can more intuitively be seen as two coinciding tetrahemihexahedra.) The tetrahemihexahedron is a hemipolyhedron. The "hemi" part of the name means some of the faces form a group with half as many members as some regular polyhedron—here, three square faces form a group with half as many faces as the regular hexahedron, better known as the cube—hence ''hemihexahedron''. Hemi faces are also oriented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Antipodal Map
In mathematics, two points of a sphere (or n-sphere, including a circle) are called antipodal or diametrically opposite if they are the endpoints of a diameter, a straight line segment between two points on a sphere and passing through its center. Given any point on a sphere, its antipodal point is the unique point at greatest distance, whether measured intrinsically (great-circle distance on the surface of the sphere) or extrinsically ( chordal distance through the sphere's interior). Every great circle on a sphere passing through a point also passes through its antipodal point, and there are infinitely many great circles passing through a pair of antipodal points (unlike the situation for any non-antipodal pair of points, which have a unique great circle passing through both). Many results in spherical geometry depend on choosing non-antipodal points, and degenerate if antipodal points are allowed; for example, a spherical triangle degenerates to an underspecified lune if tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hemi-icosahedron
In geometry, a hemi-icosahedron is an abstract polytope, abstract regular polyhedron, containing half the faces of a regular icosahedron. It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tessellation of the real projective plane by 10 triangles), which can be visualized by constructing the projective plane as a wikt:hemisphere, hemisphere where opposite points along the boundary are connected and dividing the hemisphere into three equal parts. Geometry It has 10 triangular faces, 15 edges, and 6 vertices. It is also related to the nonconvex uniform polyhedron, the tetrahemihexahedron, which could be topologically identical to the hemi-icosahedron if each of the 3 square faces were divided into two triangles. Graphs It can be represented symmetrically on faces, and vertices as Schlegel diagrams: The complete graph K6 It has the same vertices and edges as the 5-dimensional 5-simplex which has a complete graph of edges, but only contains half of the (20) faces. From the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hemi-dodecahedron
In geometry, a hemi-dodecahedron is an abstract polytope, abstract, regular polyhedron, containing half the Face (geometry), faces of a regular dodecahedron. It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tessellation of the real projective plane by 6 pentagons), which can be visualized by constructing the projective plane as a wikt:hemisphere, hemisphere where opposite points along the boundary are connected and dividing the hemisphere into three equal parts. It has 6 pentagonal faces, 15 edges, and 10 vertices. Projections It can be projected symmetrically inside of a 10-sided or 12-sided perimeter: : Petersen graph From the point of view of graph theory this is an embedding of the Petersen graph on a real projective plane. With this embedding, the dual graph is ''K''6 (the complete graph with 6 vertices) --- see hemi-icosahedron. See also *57-cell – an abstract regular 4-polytope constructed from 57 hemi-dodecahedra. *hemi-icosahedron *hemi-cube (geometry), hemi-cube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hemi-octahedron
In geometry, a hemi-octahedron is an abstract polytope, abstract regular polyhedron, containing half the faces of a regular octahedron. It has 4 triangular faces, 6 edges, and 3 vertices. Its dual polyhedron is the Hemicube (geometry), hemicube. It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tessellation of the real projective plane by 4 triangles), which can be visualized by constructing the projective plane as a hemisphere where opposite points along the boundary are connected and dividing the hemisphere into four equal parts. It can be seen as a square pyramid without its base. It can be represented symmetrically as a hexagonal or square Schlegel diagram: : It has an unexpected property that there are two distinct edges between every pair of vertices – any two vertices define a digon. See also *Hemi-dodecahedron *Hemi-icosahedron *Hemicube (geometry) References * {{citation , last1 = McMullen , first1 = Peter , author1-link = Peter McMullen , first2 = Egon , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hemicube (geometry)
In abstract geometry, a hemicube is an abstract, regular polyhedron, produced by cutting a cube in half with a plane that passes through 2 opposite corners and the midpoints of 2 edges. A hemicube is also sometimes called a square hemiprism. Realization It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tessellation of the real projective plane by three quadrilaterals), which can be visualized by constructing the projective plane as a hemisphere where opposite points along the boundary are connected and dividing the hemisphere into three equal parts. It has three square faces, six edges, and four vertices. It has an unexpected property that every face is in contact with every other face on two edges, and every face contains all the vertices, which gives an example of an abstract polytope whose faces are not determined by their vertex sets. From the point of view of graph theory the skeleton is a tetrahedral graph, an embedding of ''K''4 (the complete graph with four vertices) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hosohedra
In spherical geometry, an -gonal hosohedron is a tessellation of lunes on a spherical surface, such that each lune shares the same two polar opposite vertices. A regular -gonal hosohedron has Schläfli symbol with each spherical lune having internal angle radians ( degrees). Hosohedra as regular polyhedra For a regular polyhedron whose Schläfli symbol is , the number of polygonal faces is : :N_2=\frac. The Platonic solids known to antiquity are the only integer solutions for ''m'' ≥ 3 and ''n'' ≥ 3. The restriction ''m'' ≥ 3 enforces that the polygonal faces must have at least three sides. When considering polyhedra as a spherical tiling, this restriction may be relaxed, since digons (2-gons) can be represented as spherical lunes, having non-zero area. Allowing ''m'' = 2 makes :N_2=\frac=n, and admits a new infinite class of regular polyhedra, which are the hosohedra. On a spherical surface, the polyhedron is represented as ''n'' abutting lunes, with interio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dihedra
A dihedron (pl. dihedra) is a type of polyhedron, made of two polygon faces which share the same set of ''n'' edges. In three-dimensional Euclidean space, it is degenerate if its faces are flat, while in three-dimensional spherical space, a dihedron with flat faces can be thought of as a lens, an example of which is the fundamental domain of a lens space L(''p'',''q''). Dihedra have also been called bihedra, flat polyhedra, or doubly covered polygons. As a spherical tiling, a dihedron can exist as nondegenerate form, with two ''n''-sided faces covering the sphere, each face being a hemisphere, and vertices on a great circle. It is regular if the vertices are equally spaced. The dual of an ''n''-gonal dihedron is an ''n''-gonal hosohedron, where ''n'' digon faces share two vertices. As a flat-faced polyhedron A dihedron can be considered a degenerate prism whose two (planar) ''n''-sided polygon bases are connected "back-to-back", so that the resulting object has no depth. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |