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A regular hexagon can also be created as a truncated equilateral triangle, with Schläfli symbol t{3}. This form only has D3 symmetry. In this figure, the remaining edges of the original triangle are drawn blue, and new edges from the truncation are red. |
The hexagram can be created as a stellation process: extending the 6 edges of a regular hexagon until they meet at 6 new vertices. |
A concave hexagon |
A self-intersecting hexagon (star polygon) |
A (nonplanar) skew regular hexagon, within the edges of a cube |
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