Cantellated 5-cubes explained

In six-dimensional geometry, a cantellated 5-cube is a convex uniform 5-polytope, being a cantellation of the regular 5-cube.

There are 6 unique cantellation for the 5-cube, including truncations. Half of them are more easily constructed from the dual 5-orthoplex

Cantellated 5-cube

bgcolor=#e7dcc3 align=center colspan=3Cantellated 5-cube
TypeUniform 5-polytope
Schläfli symbolrr =

r\left\{\begin{array}{l}4\\3,3,3\end{array}\right\}

Coxeter-Dynkin diagram =
4-faces12210
80
32
Cells68040
320
160
160
Faces152080
480
320
640
Edges1280320+960
Vertices320
Vertex figure
Coxeter groupB5 [4,3,3,3]
Propertiesconvex, uniform

Alternate names

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a cantellated 5-cube having edge length 2 are all permutations of:

\left(\pm1,\pm1,\pm(1+\sqrt{2}),\pm(1+\sqrt{2}),\pm(1+\sqrt{2})\right)

Images

Bicantellated 5-cube

bgcolor=#e7dcc3 align=center colspan=3Bicantellated 5-cube
TypeUniform 5-polytope
Schläfli symbols2rr =

r\left\{\begin{array}{l}3,4\\3,3\end{array}\right\}


r =

r\left\{\begin{array}{l}3,3\ 3\\3\end{array}\right\}

Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams =
4-faces12210
80
32
Cells84040
240
160
320
80
Faces2160240
320
960
320
320
Edges1920960+960
Vertices480
Vertex figure
Coxeter groupsB5, [3,3,3,4]
D5, [3<sup>2,1,1</sup>]
Propertiesconvex, uniform
In five-dimensional geometry, a bicantellated 5-cube is a uniform 5-polytope.

Alternate names

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a bicantellated 5-cube having edge length 2 are all permutations of:

(0,1,1,2,2)

Images




Cantitruncated 5-cube

bgcolor=#e7dcc3 align=center colspan=3Cantitruncated 5-cube
TypeUniform 5-polytope
Schläfli symboltr =

t\left\{\begin{array}{l}4\\3,3,3\end{array}\right\}

Coxeter-Dynkin
diagram
=
4-faces12210
80
32
Cells68040
320
160
160
Faces152080
480
320
640
Edges1600320+320+960
Vertices640
Vertex figure
Coxeter groupB5 [4,3,3,3]
Propertiesconvex, uniform

Alternate names

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a cantitruncated 5-cube having an edge length of 2 are given by all permutations of coordinates and sign of:

\left(1, 1+\sqrt{2}, 1+2\sqrt{2}, 1+2\sqrt{2}, 1+2\sqrt{2}\right)

Related polytopes

It is third in a series of cantitruncated hypercubes:

Bicantitruncated 5-cube

bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=3Bicantitruncated 5-cube
Typeuniform 5-polytope
Schläfli symbol2tr =

t\left\{\begin{array}{l}3,4\\3,3\end{array}\right\}


t =

t\left\{\begin{array}{l}3,3\ 3\\3\end{array}\right\}

Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams =
4-faces12210
80
32
Cells84040
240
160
320
80
Faces2160240
320
960
320
320
Edges2400960+480+960
Vertices960
Vertex figure
Coxeter groupsB5, [3,3,3,4]
D5, [3<sup>2,1,1</sup>]
Propertiesconvex, uniform

Alternate names

Coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a bicantitruncated 5-cube, centered at the origin, are all sign and coordinate permutations of

(±3,±3,±2,±1,0)

Images

Related polytopes

These polytopes are from a set of 31 uniform 5-polytopes generated from the regular 5-cube or 5-orthoplex.

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