Icosahedral pyramid explained

bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=3	Icosahedral pyramid
align=center colspan=3	Schlegel diagram
Type	Polyhedral pyramid
Schläfli symbol	∨
Cells	21
Faces	50	20+30
Edges	12+30
Vertices	13
Dual	Dodecahedral pyramid
Symmetry group	H3, [5,3,1], order 120
Properties	convex, regular-cells, Blind polytope

The icosahedral pyramid is a four-dimensional convex polytope, bounded by one icosahedron as its base and by 20 triangular pyramid cells which meet at its apex. Since an icosahedron's circumradius is less than its edge length,^[1]

Notes and References

1. , circumradius sqrt[(5+sqrt(5))/8 = 0.951057</ref> the tetrahedral pyramids can be made with regular faces. Having all regular cells, it is a [[Blind polytope]]. Two copies can be augmented to make an icosahedral bipyramid which is also a Blind Polytope.

   The regular 600-cell has icosahedral pyramids around every vertex.

   The dual to the icosahedral pyramid is the dodecahedral pyramid, seen as a dodecahedral base, and 12 regular pentagonal pyramids meeting at an apex.

   Configuration

   Seen in a configuration matrix, all incidence counts between elements are shown.

   k-faces	fk	f0		f1		f2		f3		k-verfs
   align=left bgcolor=#ffffe0	( )	f0	1		12	0	30	0	20	0
   align=left bgcolor=#ffffe0	( )			12	1	5	5	5	5	1	∨( )
   align=left bgcolor=#ffffe0	( )∨( )	f1	1	1	12		5	0	5	0
   align=left bgcolor=#ffffe0			0	2		30	1	2	2	1	∨( )
   align=left bgcolor=#ffffe0	∨( )	f2	1	2	2	1	30		2	0
   align=left bgcolor=#ffffe0			0	3	0	3		20	1	1	( )∨( )
   align=left bgcolor=#ffffe0	∨( )	f3	1	3	3	3	3	1	20		( )
   align=left bgcolor=#ffffe0			0	12	0	30	0	20		1	( )

   External links

   • • • • • Richard Klitzing, Axial-Symmetrical Edge Facetings of Uniform Polyhedra
   • Icosahedral pyramid