Great duoantiprism explained

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Stereographic projection, centered on one pentagrammic crossed-antiprism-->
TypeUniform polychoron
Schläfli symbols
Coxeter diagrams


Cells50 tetrahedra
10 pentagonal antiprisms
10 pentagrammic crossed-antiprisms
Faces200 triangles
10 pentagons
10 pentagrams
Edges200
Vertices50
Vertex figure
star-gyrobifastigium
Symmetry group order 50
order 100
order 200
PropertiesVertex-uniform

Net (overlapping in space)

In geometry, the great duoantiprism is the only uniform star-duoantiprism solution in 4-dimensional geometry. It has Schläfli symbol or Coxeter diagram, constructed from 10 pentagonal antiprisms, 10 pentagrammic crossed-antiprisms, and 50 tetrahedra.

Its vertices are a subset of those of the small stellated 120-cell.

Construction

The great duoantiprism can be constructed from a nonuniform variant of the 10-10/3 duoprism (a duoprism of a decagon and a decagram) where the decagram's edge length is around 1.618 (golden ratio) times the edge length of the decagon via an alternation process. The decagonal prisms alternate into pentagonal antiprisms, the decagrammic prisms alternate into pentagrammic crossed-antiprisms with new regular tetrahedra created at the deleted vertices. This is the only uniform solution for the p-q duoantiprism aside from the regular 16-cell (as a 2-2 duoantiprism).

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.polytope.net/hedrondude/misc.htm Jonathan Bowers - Miscellaneous Uniform Polychora
  2. http://www.polychora.com/12GudapsMovie.gif Animation of cross sections