List of polygons, polyhedra and polytopes explained
A polytope is a geometric object with flat sides, which exists in any general number of dimensions. The following list of polygons, polyhedra and polytopes gives the names of various classes of polytopes and lists some specific examples.
Polytope elements
Polygon (2-polytope)
- Vertex the ridge or (n−2)-face of the polygon
- Edge the facet or (n−1)-face of the polygon
Polyhedron (3-polytope)
- Vertex the peak or (n−3)-face of the polyhedron
- Edge the ridge or (n−2)-face of the polyhedron
- Face the facet or (n−1)-face of the polyhedron
Polychoron (4-polytope)
- Vertex the (n−4)-face of the polychoron
- Edge the peak or (n−3)-face of the polychoron
- Face the ridge or (n−2)-face of the polychoron
- Cell the facet or (n−1)-face of the polychoron
5-polytope
- Vertex the (n−5)-face of the 5-polytope
- Edge the (n−4)-face of the 5-polytope
- Face the peak or (n−3)-face of the 5-polytope
- Cell the ridge or (n−2)-face of the 5-polytope
- Hypercell or Teron the facet or (n−1)-face of the 5-polytope
Other
Two dimensional (polygons)
Families
Tilings
List of uniform tilings
Uniform tilings in hyperbolic plane
- Archimedean tiling
Three dimensional (polyhedra)
- Three-dimensional space
Regular
Regular polyhedron
- Tetrahedron
- Pentahedron
- Hexahedron
- Heptahedron
- Octahedron
- Enneahedron
- Decahedron
- Dodecahedron
- Pentagonal antiprism, Decagonal prism, Pentagonal cupola, Snub disphenoid, Elongated square dipyramid, Metabidiminished icosahedron, Hexagonal bipyramid, Hexagonal trapezohedron, Triakis tetrahedron, Rhombic dodecahedron, Hendecagonal pyramid, Trapezo-rhombic dodecahedron, Rhombo-hexagonal dodecahedron
Archimedean solids
- Archimedean solid
- Truncated tetrahedron, Cuboctahedron, Truncated cube, Truncated octahedron, Rhombicuboctahedron, Truncated cuboctahedron, Snub cube, Icosidodecahedron, Truncated dodecahedron, Truncated icosahedron, Rhombicosidodecahedron, Truncated icosidodecahedron, Snub dodecahedron
Prisms and antiprisms
- Prism
- Antiprism
Catalan solids
- Catalan solid
- Triakis tetrahedron, Rhombic dodecahedron, Triakis octahedron, Tetrakis hexahedron, Deltoidal icositetrahedron, Disdyakis dodecahedron, Pentagonal icositetrahedron, Rhombic triacontahedron, Triakis icosahedron, Pentakis dodecahedron, Deltoidal hexecontahedron, Disdyakis triacontahedron, Pentagonal hexecontahedron
Bipyramids and Trapezohedron
Uniform star polyhedra
- Uniform star polyhedron
Uniform prismatic star polyhedra
- Prismatic uniform polyhedron
Johnson solids
- Johnson solid
- Augmented dodecahedron
- Augmented hexagonal prism
- Augmented pentagonal prism
- Augmented sphenocorona
- Augmented triangular prism
- Augmented tridiminished icosahedron
- Augmented truncated cube
- Augmented truncated dodecahedron
- Augmented truncated tetrahedron
- Biaugmented pentagonal prism
- Biaugmented triangular prism
- Biaugmented truncated cube
- Bigyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron
- Bilunabirotunda
- Diminished rhombicosidodecahedron
- Disphenocingulum
- Elongated pentagonal bipyramid
- Elongated pentagonal cupola
- Elongated pentagonal gyrobicupola
- Elongated pentagonal gyrobirotunda
- Elongated pentagonal gyrocupolarotunda
- Elongated pentagonal orthobicupola
- Elongated pentagonal orthobirotunda
- Elongated pentagonal orthocupolarotunda
- Elongated pentagonal pyramid
- Elongated pentagonal rotunda
- Elongated square bipyramid
- Elongated square cupola
- Elongated square gyrobicupola
- Elongated square pyramid
- Elongated triangular bipyramid
- Elongated triangular cupola
- Elongated triangular gyrobicupola
- Elongated triangular orthobicupola
- Elongated triangular pyramid
- Gyrate bidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron
- Gyrate rhombicosidodecahedron
- Gyrobifastigium
- Gyroelongated pentagonal bicupola
- Gyroelongated pentagonal birotunda
- Gyroelongated pentagonal cupola
- Gyroelongated pentagonal cupolarotunda
- Gyroelongated pentagonal pyramid
- Gyroelongated pentagonal rotunda
- Gyroelongated square bicupola
- Gyroelongated square bipyramid
- Gyroelongated square cupola
- Gyroelongated square pyramid
- Gyroelongated triangular bicupola
- Gyroelongated triangular cupola
- Hebesphenomegacorona
- Metabiaugmented dodecahedron
- Metabiaugmented hexagonal prism
- Metabiaugmented truncated dodecahedron
- Metabidiminished icosahedron
- Metabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron
- Metabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron
- Metagyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron
- Parabiaugmented dodecahedron
- Parabiaugmented hexagonal prism
- Parabiaugmented truncated dodecahedron
- Parabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron
- Parabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron
- Paragyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron
- Pentagonal bipyramid
- Pentagonal cupola
- Pentagonal gyrobicupola
- Pentagonal gyrocupolarotunda
- Pentagonal orthobicupola
- Pentagonal orthobirotunda
- Pentagonal orthocupolarotunda
- Pentagonal pyramid
- Pentagonal rotunda
- Snub disphenoid
- Snub square antiprism
- Sphenocorona
- Sphenomegacorona
- Square cupola
- Square gyrobicupola
- Square orthobicupola
- Square pyramid
- Triangular bipyramid
- Triangular cupola
- Triangular hebesphenorotunda
- Triangular orthobicupola
- Triaugmented dodecahedron
- Triaugmented hexagonal prism
- Triaugmented triangular prism
- Triaugmented truncated dodecahedron
- Tridiminished icosahedron
- Tridiminished rhombicosidodecahedron
- Trigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron
Dual uniform star polyhedra
Honeycombs
- Convex uniform honeycomb
- Cubic honeycomb
- Truncated cubic honeycomb
- Bitruncated cubic honeycomb
- Cantellated cubic honeycomb
- Cantitruncated cubic honeycomb
- Rectified cubic honeycomb
- Runcitruncated cubic honeycomb
- Omnitruncated cubic honeycomb
- Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb
- Truncated alternated cubic honeycomb
- Cantitruncated alternated cubic honeycomb
- Runcinated alternated cubic honeycomb
- Quarter cubic honeycomb
- Gyrated tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb
- Gyrated triangular prismatic honeycomb
- Gyroelongated alternated cubic honeycomb
- Gyroelongated triangular prismatic honeycomb
- Elongated triangular prismatic honeycomb
- Elongated alternated cubic honeycomb
- Hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
- Triangular prismatic honeycomb
- Triangular-hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
- Truncated hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
- Truncated square prismatic honeycomb
- Rhombitriangular-hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
- Omnitruncated triangular-hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
- Snub triangular-hexagonal prismatic honeycomb
- Snub square prismatic honeycomb
- Dual uniform honeycomb
- Others
- Convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space
Other
Regular and uniform compound polyhedra
- Polyhedral compound and Uniform polyhedron compound
Four dimensions
- Four-dimensional space4-polytope – general term for a four dimensional polytope
- Regular 4-polytope
- Abstract regular polytope
- Regular star 4-polytope
- Uniform 4-polytope
- Rectified 5-cell, Truncated 5-cell, Cantellated 5-cell, Runcinated 5-cell
- Rectified tesseract, Truncated tesseract, Cantellated tesseract, Runcinated tesseract
- Rectified 16-cell, Truncated 16-cell
- Rectified 24-cell, Truncated 24-cell, Cantellated 24-cell, Runcinated 24-cell, Snub 24-cell
- Rectified 120-cell, Truncated 120-cell, Cantellated 120-cell, Runcinated 120-cell
- Rectified 600-cell, Truncated 600-cell, Cantellated 600-cell
- Prismatic uniform 4-polytope
- Grand antiprism
- Duoprism
- Tetrahedral prism, Truncated tetrahedral prism
- Truncated cubic prism, Truncated octahedral prism, Cuboctahedral prism, Rhombicuboctahedral prism, Truncated cuboctahedral prism, Snub cubic prism
- Truncated dodecahedral prism, Truncated icosahedral prism, Icosidodecahedral prism, Rhombicosidodecahedral prism, Truncated icosidodecahedral prism, Snub dodecahedral prism
- Uniform antiprismatic prism
- Triangular antiprismatic prism, Square antiprismatic prism, Pentagonal antiprismatic prism, Hexagonal antiprismatic prism, Heptagonal antiprismatic prism, Octagonal antiprismatic prism, Enneagonal antiprismatic prism, Decagonal antiprismatic prism
- Pentagrammic antiprismatic prism, Hexagrammic antiprismatic prism, Heptagrammic antiprismatic prism, Octagrammic antiprismatic prism, Enneagrammic antiprismatic prism, Decagrammic antiprismatic prism
- Pentagrammic crossed antiprismatic prism, Hexagrammic crossed antiprismatic prism, Heptagrammic crossed antiprismatic prism, Octagrammic crossed antiprismatic prism, Enneagrammic crossed antiprismatic prism, Decagrammic crossed antiprismatic prism
Honeycombs
Five dimensions
- Five-dimensional space, 5-polytope and uniform 5-polytope
- 5-simplex, Rectified 5-simplex, Truncated 5-simplex, Cantellated 5-simplex, Runcinated 5-simplex, Stericated 5-simplex
- 5-demicube, Truncated 5-demicube, Cantellated 5-demicube, Runcinated 5-demicube
- 5-cube, Rectified 5-cube, Truncated 5-cube, Cantellated 5-cube, Runcinated 5-cube, Stericated 5-cube
- 5-orthoplex, Rectified 5-orthoplex, Truncated 5-orthoplex, Cantellated 5-orthoplex, Runcinated 5-orthoplex
- Prismatic uniform 5-polytope
- 5-cell prism, Rectified 5-cell prism, Truncated 5-cell prism, Cantellated 5-cell prism, Runcinated 5-cell prism, Bitruncated 5-cell prism, Cantitruncated 5-cell prism, Runcitruncated 5-cell prism, Omnitruncated 5-cell prism
- Tesseractic prism, Rectified tesseractic prism, Truncated tesseractic prism, Cantellated tesseractic prism, Runcinated tesseractic prism, Bitruncated tesseractic prism, Cantitruncated tesseractic prism, Runcitruncated tesseractic prism, Omnitruncated tesseractic prism
- 16-cell prism, Truncated 16-cell prism, Runcitruncated 16-cell prism
- 24-cell prism, rectified 24-cell prism, truncated 24-cell prism, cantellated 24-cell prism, runcinated 24-cell prism, bitruncated 24-cell prism, cantitruncated 24-cell prism, runcitruncated 24-cell prism, omnitruncated 24-cell prism, snub 24-cell prism
- 120-cell prism, Rectified 120-cell prism, Truncated 120-cell prism, Cantellated 120-cell prism, Runcinated 120-cell prism, Bitruncated 120-cell prism, Cantitruncated 120-cell prism, Runcitruncated 120-cell prism, Omnitruncated 120-cell prism
- 600-cell prism, Rectified 600-cell prism, Truncated 600-cell prism, Cantellated 600-cell prism, Cantitruncated 600-cell prism, Runcitruncated 600-cell prism
- Grand antiprism prism
Honeycombs
Six dimensions
- Six-dimensional space, 6-polytope and uniform 6-polytope
- 6-simplex, Rectified 6-simplex, Truncated 6-simplex, Cantellated 6-simplex, Runcinated 6-simplex, Stericated 6-simplex, Pentellated 6-simplex
- 6-demicube, Truncated 6-demicube, Cantellated 6-demicube, Runcinated 6-demicube, Stericated 6-demicube
- 6-cube, Rectified 6-cube, Truncated 6-cube, Cantellated 6-cube, Runcinated 6-cube, Stericated 6-cube, Pentellated 6-cube
- 6-orthoplex, Rectified 6-orthoplex, Truncated 6-orthoplex, Cantellated 6-orthoplex, Runcinated 6-orthoplex, Stericated 6-orthoplex
- 122 polytope, 221 polytope
Honeycombs
Seven dimensions
- Seven-dimensional space, uniform 7-polytope
- 7-simplex, Rectified 7-simplex, Truncated 7-simplex, Cantellated 7-simplex, Runcinated 7-simplex, Stericated 7-simplex, Pentellated 7-simplex, Hexicated 7-simplex
- 7-demicube, Truncated 7-demicube, Cantellated 7-demicube, Runcinated 7-demicube, Stericated 7-demicube, Pentellated 7-demicube
- 7-cube, Rectified 7-cube, Truncated 7-cube, Cantellated 7-cube, Runcinated 7-cube, Stericated 7-cube, Pentellated 7-cube, Hexicated 7-cube
- 7-orthoplex, Rectified 7-orthoplex, Truncated 7-orthoplex, Cantellated 7-orthoplex, Runcinated 7-orthoplex, Stericated 7-orthoplex, Pentellated 7-orthoplex, Hexicated 7-orthoplex
- 132 polytope, 231 polytope, 321 polytope
Honeycombs
Eight dimension
- Eight-dimensional space, uniform 8-polytope
- 8-simplex, Rectified 8-simplex, Truncated 8-simplex, Cantellated 8-simplex, Runcinated 8-simplex, Stericated 8-simplex, Pentellated 8-simplex, Hexicated 8-simplex, Heptellated 8-simplex
- 8-demicube, Truncated 8-demicube, Cantellated 8-demicube, Runcinated 8-demicube, Stericated 8-demicube, Pentellated 8-demicube, Hexicated 8-demicube
- 8-cube, Rectified 8-cube, Truncated 8-cube, Cantellated 8-cube, Runcinated 8-cube, Stericated 8-cube, Pentellated 8-cube, Hexicated 8-cube, Heptellated 8-cube
- 8-orthoplex, Rectified 8-orthoplex, Truncated 8-orthoplex, Cantellated 8-orthoplex, Runcinated 8-orthoplex, Stericated 8-orthoplex, Pentellated 8-orthoplex, Hexicated 8-orthoplex,
- 142 polytope, 241 polytope, 421 polytope, Truncated 421 polytope, Truncated 241 polytope, Truncated 142 polytope, Cantellated 421 polytope, Cantellated 241 polytope, Runcinated 421 polytope
Honeycombs
Nine dimensions
- 9-polytope
Hyperbolic honeycombs
Ten dimensions
- 10-polytope
Dimensional families
- Regular polytope and List of regular polytopes
- Uniform polytope
- Honeycombs
Geometric operators
See also