Rhombicuboctahedral prism explained

bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2	Rhombicuboctahedral prism
Type	Prismatic uniform polychoron
Uniform index	53
Schläfli symbol	t0,2,3 or rr× s2,3 or s2×
Coxeter diagram
Cells	28 total: 2 rr or s2 8 x 18
Faces	100 total: 16 84
Edges	120
Vertices	48
Vertex figure	Trapezoidal pyramid
Symmetry group	[4,3,2], order 96 [3<sup>+</sup>,4,2], order 48
Properties	convex

In geometry, a rhombicuboctahedral prism is a convex uniform polychoron (four-dimensional polytope).

It is one of 18 convex uniform polyhedral prisms created by using uniform prisms to connect pairs of Platonic solids or Archimedean solids in parallel hyperplanes.

Alternative names

• small rhombicuboctahedral prism
• (Small) rhombicuboctahedral dyadic prism (Norman W. Johnson)
• Sircope (Jonathan Bowers: for small-rhombicuboctahedral prism)
• (small) rhombicuboctahedral hyperprism

Related polytopes

Runcic snub cubic hosochoron

bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2	Runcic snub cubic hosochoron
Schläfli symbol	s3
Coxeter diagram
Cells
Faces	52 total: 32 12 8
Edges	60
Vertices	24
Vertex figure
Symmetry group	[4,3,2<sup>+</sup>], order 48
Properties	convex

A related polychoron is the runcic snub cubic hosochoron, also known as a parabidiminished rectified tesseract, truncated tetrahedral alterprism, or truncated tetrahedral cupoliprism, s₃, . It is made from 2 truncated tetrahedra, 6 tetrahedra, and 8 triangular cupolae in the gaps, for a total of 16 cells, 52 faces, 60 edges, and 24 vertices. It is vertex-transitive, and equilateral, but not uniform, due to the cupolae. It has symmetry [2⁺,4,3], order 48.^{[1] [2]}

It is related to the 16-cell in its s, construction.

It can also be seen as a prismatic polytope with two parallel truncated tetrahedra in dual positions, as seen in the compound of two truncated tetrahedra. Triangular cupolae connect the triangular and hexagonal faces, and the tetrahedral connect edge-wise between.

Notes and References

1. http://www.polytope.net/hedrondude/simplesc.htm Category S1: Simple Scaliforms
2. http://bendwavy.org/klitzing/pdf/artConvSeg_8.pdf 4.55truncated tetrahedron || inverse truncated tetrahedron