FacettageEn géométrie, le facettage est le procédé d'enlèvement de parties d'un polygone, d'un polyèdre ou d'un polytope, sans créer de nouveaux sommets. Le facettage est la réciproque ou le procédé dual de la stellation. Pour chaque stellation d'un certain polytope convexe, il existe un facettage dual d'un polytope dual. Le facettage n'a pas été étudié aussi intensément que la stellation. En 1858, Bertrand obtient les polyèdres étoilés (les solides de Kepler-Poinsot) en facettant l'icosaèdre et le dodécaèdre réguliers et convexes.
Binary tetrahedral groupIn mathematics, the binary tetrahedral group, denoted 2T or , is a certain nonabelian group of order 24. It is an extension of the tetrahedral group T or (2,3,3) of order 12 by a cyclic group of order 2, and is the of the tetrahedral group under the 2:1 covering homomorphism Spin(3) → SO(3) of the special orthogonal group by the spin group. It follows that the binary tetrahedral group is a discrete subgroup of Spin(3) of order 24. The complex reflection group named 3(24)3 by G.C.
Runcinated tesseractsIn four-dimensional geometry, a runcinated tesseract (or runcinated 16-cell) is a convex uniform 4-polytope, being a runcination (a 3rd order truncation) of the regular tesseract. There are 4 variations of runcinations of the tesseract including with permutations truncations and cantellations. The runcinated tesseract or (small) disprismatotesseractihexadecachoron has 16 tetrahedra, 32 cubes, and 32 triangular prisms. Each vertex is shared by 4 cubes, 3 triangular prisms and one tetrahedron.
Dodécagrammevignette|droite|Dodécagramme Un dodécagramme est un polygone étoilé à 12 sommets. Sa première forme régulière est {12/5}. Tous les dodécagrammes partagent leurs sommets avec ceux d'un dodécagone {12/1}. Image:Antiprism 12-5.png|Un [[Antiprisme#Antiprismes étoilés|antiprisme étoilé]] dodécagrammique Image:Antiprism 12-7.png|Un [[Antiprisme#Antiprismes étoilés|antiprisme étoilé croisé]] dodécagrammique Il existe trois stellations régulières de dodécagramme, {12/2}, {12/3} et {12/4}.
Cubic pyramidIn 4-dimensional geometry, the cubic pyramid is bounded by one cube on the base and 6 square pyramid cells which meet at the apex. Since a cube has a circumradius divided by edge length less than one, the square pyramids can be made with regular faces by computing the appropriate height. Exactly 8 regular cubic pyramids will fit together around a vertex in four-dimensional space (the apex of each pyramid). This construction yields a tesseract with 8 cubical bounding cells, surrounding a central vertex with 16 edge-length long radii.
Octahedral pyramidIn 4-dimensional geometry, the octahedral pyramid is bounded by one octahedron on the base and 8 triangular pyramid cells which meet at the apex. Since an octahedron has a circumradius divided by edge length less than one, the triangular pyramids can be made with regular faces (as regular tetrahedrons) by computing the appropriate height. Having all regular cells, it is a Blind polytope. Two copies can be augmented to make an octahedral bipyramid which is also a Blind polytope.
Compound of tesseract and 16-cellIn 4-dimensional geometry, the tesseract 16-cell compound is a polytope compound composed of a regular tesseract and its dual, the regular 16-cell. Its convex hull is the regular 24-cell, which is self-dual. A compound polytope is a figure that is composed of several polytopes sharing a common center. The outer vertices of a compound can be connected to form a convex polytope called its convex hull. The compound is a facetting of the convex hull. In 4-polytope compounds constructed as dual pairs, cells and vertices swap positions and faces and edges swap positions.
Runcinated 24-cellsIn four-dimensional geometry, a runcinated 24-cell is a convex uniform 4-polytope, being a runcination (a 3rd order truncation) of the regular 24-cell. There are 3 unique degrees of runcinations of the 24-cell including with permutations truncations and cantellations. In geometry, the runcinated 24-cell or small prismatotetracontoctachoron is a uniform 4-polytope bounded by 48 octahedra and 192 triangular prisms. The octahedral cells correspond with the cells of a 24-cell and its dual. E. L.
Hexagramme (géométrie)A hexagram (Greek) or sexagram (Latin) is a six-pointed geometric star figure with the Schläfli symbol {6/2}, 2{3}, or {{3}}. Since there are no true regular continuous hexagrams, the term is instead used to refer to a compound figure of two equilateral triangles. The intersection is a regular hexagon. The hexagram is part of an infinite series of shapes which are compounds of two n-dimensional simplices. In three dimensions, the analogous compound is the stellated octahedron, and in four dimensions the compound of two 5-cells is obtained.
Clifford parallelIn elliptic geometry, two lines are Clifford parallel or paratactic lines if the perpendicular distance between them is constant from point to point. The concept was first studied by William Kingdon Clifford in elliptic space and appears only in spaces of at least three dimensions. Since parallel lines have the property of equidistance, the term "parallel" was appropriated from Euclidean geometry, although the "lines" of elliptic geometry are geodesic curves and, unlike the lines of Euclidean geometry, are of finite length.