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) |
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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 |
(No image) Rectified order-4 dodecahedral |
(No image) Rectified order-5 cubic |
Order-5 cubic |
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