3-4 duoprism
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Uniform 3-4 duoprisms 140pxSchlegel diagrams |
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|---|---|
| Type | Prismatic uniform polychoron |
| Schläfli symbol | {3}×{4} |
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagram |      |
| Cells | 3 square prisms, 4 triangular prisms |
| Faces | 12 squares, 3 squares, 4 triangles |
| Edges | 24 |
| Vertices | 12 |
| Vertex figure | 100px Digonal disphenoid |
| Symmetry | [3,2,4], order 48 |
| Dual | 3-4 duopyramid |
| Properties | convex, vertex-uniform |
In geometry of 4 dimensions, a 3-4 duoprism, the second smallest p-q duoprism, is a 4-polytope resulting from the Cartesian product of a triangle and a square.
The 3-4 duoprism exists in some of the uniform 5-polytopes in the B5 family.
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Related polytopes
The birectified 5-cube, has a uniform 3-4 duoprism vertex figure:
3-4 duopyramid
| dual uniform 3-4 duopyramid | |
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| Type | duopyramid |
| Schläfli symbol | {3}+{4} |
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagram |   |
| Cells | 12 digonal disphenoids |
| Faces | 24 isosceles triangles |
| Edges | 19 (12+3+4) |
| Vertices | 7 (3+4) |
| Symmetry | [3,2,4], order 48 |
| Dual | 3-4 duoprism |
| Properties | convex, facet-transitive |
The dual of a 3-4 duoprism is called a 3-4 duopyramid. It has 12 tetragonal disphenoid cells, 24 isosceles triangular faces, 12 edges, and 7 vertices.
| 240px Orthogonal projection |
180px Vertex-centered perspective |
See also
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References
- Regular Polytopes, H. S. M. Coxeter, Dover Publications, Inc., 1973, New York, p. 124.
- Coxeter, The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 0-486-40919-8 (Chapter 5: Regular Skew Polyhedra in three and four dimensions and their topological analogues)
- Coxeter, H. S. M. Regular Skew Polyhedra in Three and Four Dimensions. Proc. London Math. Soc. 43, 33-62, 1937.
- John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26)
- Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
- N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1966
- Olshevsky, George, Duoprism at Glossary for Hyperspace.
External links
- The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained—describes duoprisms as "double prisms" and duocylinders as "double cylinders"
- Polygloss - glossary of higher-dimensional terms
- Exploring Hyperspace with the Geometric Product
