Family Members
The family starts uniquely as 6-polytopes, but can be extended backwards to include the 5-demicube (demipenteract) in 5-dimensions, and the 4-simplex (5-cell) in 4-dimensions.
Each polytope is constructed from 1k-1,2 and (n-1)-demicube facets. Each has a vertex figure of a {31,n-2,2} polytope is a birectified n-simplex, t2{3n}.
The sequence ends with k=6 (n=10), as an infinite tessellation of 9 dimensional hyperbolic space.
The complete family of 1k2 polytope polytopes are:
- 5-cell: 102, (5 tetrahedral cells)
- 112 polytope, (16 5-cell, and 10 16-cell facets)
- 122 polytope, (54 demipenteract facets)
- 132 polytope, (56 122 and 126 demihexeract facets)
- 142 polytope, (240 132 and 2160 demihepteract facets)
- 152 honeycomb, tessellates Euclidean 8-space (∞ 142 and ∞ demiocteract facets)
- 162 honeycomb, tessellates hyperbolic 9-space (∞ 152 and ∞ demienneract facets)
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