Rectification (geometry) - in Polychora and 3D Honeycomb Tessellations

In Polychora and 3d Honeycomb Tessellations

Each convex regular polychoron has a rectified form as a uniform polychoron.

A regular polychoron {p,q,r} has cells {p,q}. Its rectification will have two cell types, a rectified {p,q} polyhedron left from the original cells and {q,r} polyhedron as new cells formed by each truncated vertex.

A rectified {p,q,r} is not the same as a rectified {r,q,p}, however. A further truncation, called bitruncation, is symmetric between a polychoron and its dual. See Uniform_polychoron#Geometric_derivations.

Examples

Family Parent Rectification Birectification
(Dual rectification)
Trirectification
(Dual)

5-cell

rectified 5-cell

rectified 5-cell

5-cell

tesseract

rectified tesseract

Rectified 16-cell
(24-cell)

16-cell

24-cell

rectified 24-cell

rectified 24-cell

24-cell

120-cell

rectified 120-cell

rectified 600-cell

600-cell

Cubic honeycomb

Rectified cubic honeycomb

Rectified cubic honeycomb

Cubic honeycomb

Order-4 dodecahedral
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Rectified order-4 dodecahedral
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Rectified order-5 cubic

Order-5 cubic

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