The truncated square prismatic honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. It is composed of octagonal prisms and cubes in a ratio of 1:1.
It is constructed from a truncated square tiling extruded into prisms.
It is one of 28 convex uniform honeycombs.
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