Cantellated 24-cells


24-cell

Cantellated 24-cell

Cantitruncated 24-cell
Orthogonal projections in F4 Coxeter plane

In four-dimensional geometry, a cantellated 24-cell is a convex uniform 4-polytope, being a cantellation (a 2nd order truncation) of the regular 24-cell.

There are 2 unique degrees of cantellations of the 24-cell including permutations with truncations.

Cantellated 24-cell

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Cantellated 24-cell
Type Uniform 4-polytope
Schläfli symbol rr{3,4,3}
s2{3,4,3}
Coxeter diagram
Cells 144 24 (3.4.4.4)
24 (3.4.3.4)

96 (3.4.4)

Faces 720 288 triangles
432 squares
Edges 864
Vertices 288
Vertex figure
Wedge
Symmetry group F4, [3,4,3], order 1152
Properties convex
Uniform index 24 25 26
Net

The cantellated 24-cell or small rhombated icositetrachoron is a uniform 4-polytope.

The boundary of the cantellated 24-cell is composed of 24 truncated octahedral cells, 24 cuboctahedral cells and 96 triangular prisms. Together they have 288 triangular faces, 432 square faces, 864 edges, and 288 vertices.

Construction

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When the cantellation process is applied to 24-cell, each of the 24 octahedra becomes a small rhombicuboctahedron. In addition however, since each octahedra's edge was previously shared with two other octahedra, the separating edges form the three parallel edges of a triangular prism - 96 triangular prisms, since the 24-cell contains 96 edges. Further, since each vertex was previously shared with 12 faces, the vertex would split into 12 (24*12=288) new vertices. Each group of 12 new vertices forms a cuboctahedron.

Coordinates

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The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of the cantellated 24-cell having edge length 2 are all permutations of coordinates and sign of:

(0, 2, 2, 2+22)
(1, 1+2, 1+2, 1+22)

The permutations of the second set of coordinates coincide with the vertices of an inscribed runcitruncated tesseract.

The dual configuration has all permutations and signs of:

(0,2,2+2,2+2)
(1,1,1+2,3+2)

Structure

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The 24 small rhombicuboctahedra are joined to each other via their triangular faces, to the cuboctahedra via their axial square faces, and to the triangular prisms via their off-axial square faces. The cuboctahedra are joined to the triangular prisms via their triangular faces. Each triangular prism is joined to two cuboctahedra at its two ends.

Cantic snub 24-cell

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A half-symmetry construction of the cantellated 24-cell, also called a cantic snub 24-cell, as , has an identical geometry, but its triangular faces are further subdivided. The cantellated 24-cell has 2 positions of triangular faces in ratio of 96 and 192, while the cantic snub 24-cell has 3 positions of 96 triangles.

The difference can be seen in the vertex figures, with edges representing faces in the 4-polytope:



Images

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orthographic projections
Coxeter plane F4
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [12]
Coxeter plane B3 / A2 (a) B3 / A2 (b)
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [6] [6]
Coxeter plane B4 B2 / A3
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [8] [4]
Schlegel diagrams

Schlegel diagram

Showing 24 cuboctahedra.

Showing 96 triangular prisms.
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The convex hull of two cantellated 24-cells in opposite positions is a nonuniform polychoron composed of 864 cells: 48 cuboctahedra, 144 square antiprisms, 384 octahedra (as triangular antipodiums), 288 tetrahedra (as tetragonal disphenoids), and 576 vertices. Its vertex figure is a shape topologically equivalent to a cube with a triangular prism attached to one of its square faces.

Cantitruncated 24-cell

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Cantitruncated 24-cell

Schlegel diagram, centered on truncated cuboctahedron
Type Uniform 4-polytope
Schläfli symbol tr{3,4,3}
Coxeter diagram
Cells 144 24 4.6.8
96 4.4.3
24 3.8.8
Faces 720 192{3}
288{4}
96{6}
144{8}
Edges 1152
Vertices 576
Vertex figure
sphenoid
Symmetry group F4, [3,4,3], order 1152
Properties convex
Uniform index 27 28 29
Net

The cantitruncated 24-cell or great rhombated icositetrachoron is a uniform 4-polytope derived from the 24-cell. It is bounded by 24 truncated cuboctahedra corresponding with the cells of a 24-cell, 24 truncated cubes corresponding with the cells of the dual 24-cell, and 96 triangular prisms corresponding with the edges of the first 24-cell.

Coordinates

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The Cartesian coordinates of a cantitruncated 24-cell having edge length 2 are all permutations of coordinates and sign of:

(1,1+2,1+22,3+32)
(0,2+2,2+22,2+32)

The dual configuration has coordinates as all permutations and signs of:

(1,1+2,1+2,5+22)
(1,3+2,3+2,3+22)
(2,2+2,2+2,4+22)

Projections

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orthographic projections
Coxeter plane F4
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [12]
Coxeter plane B3 / A2 (a) B3 / A2 (b)
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [6] [6]
Coxeter plane B4 B2 / A3
Graph
Dihedral symmetry [8] [4]
Stereographic projection
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24-cell family polytopes
Name 24-cell truncated 24-cell snub 24-cell rectified 24-cell cantellated 24-cell bitruncated 24-cell cantitruncated 24-cell runcinated 24-cell runcitruncated 24-cell omnitruncated 24-cell
Schläfli
symbol
{3,4,3} t0,1{3,4,3}
t{3,4,3}
s{3,4,3} t1{3,4,3}
r{3,4,3}
t0,2{3,4,3}
rr{3,4,3}
t1,2{3,4,3}
2t{3,4,3}
t0,1,2{3,4,3}
tr{3,4,3}
t0,3{3,4,3} t0,1,3{3,4,3} t0,1,2,3{3,4,3}
Coxeter
diagram
Schlegel
diagram
F4
B4
B3(a)
B3(b)
B2

References

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  • H.S.M. Coxeter:
    • Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8, p.296, Table I (iii): Regular Polytopes, three regular polytopes in n-dimensions (n≥5)
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    • Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6 [1]
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  • John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26. pp. 409: Hemicubes: 1n1)
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    • N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D. (1966)
  • 3. Convex uniform polychora based on the icositetrachoron (24-cell) - Model 24, 25, George Olshevsky.
  • Klitzing, Richard. "4D uniform polytopes (polychora)". x3o4x3o - srico, o3x4x3o - grico
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