Alternated hypercubic honeycomb


An alternated square tiling or checkerboard pattern.
or

An expanded square tiling.

A partially filled alternated cubic honeycomb with tetrahedral and octahedral cells.
or

A subsymmetry colored alternated cubic honeycomb.

In geometry, the alternated hypercube honeycomb (or demicubic honeycomb) is a dimensional infinite series of honeycombs, based on the hypercube honeycomb with an alternation operation. It is given a Schläfli symbol h{4,3...3,4} representing the regular form with half the vertices removed and containing the symmetry of Coxeter group for n ≥ 4. A lower symmetry form can be created by removing another mirror on an order-4 peak.[1]

The alternated hypercube facets become demihypercubes, and the deleted vertices create new orthoplex facets. The vertex figure for honeycombs of this family are rectified orthoplexes.

These are also named as hδn for an (n-1)-dimensional honeycomb.

nNameSchläfli
symbol
Symmetry family

[4,3n-4,31,1]

[31,1,3n-5,31,1]
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams by family
2Apeirogon{∞}
3Alternated square tiling
(Same as {4,4})
h{4,4}=t1{4,4}
t0,2{4,4}


4Alternated cubic honeycombh{4,3,4}
{31,1,4}


516-cell tetracomb
(Same as {3,3,4,3})
h{4,32,4}
{31,1,3,4}
{31,1,1,1}


65-demicube honeycombh{4,33,4}
{31,1,32,4}
{31,1,3,31,1}


76-demicube honeycombh{4,34,4}
{31,1,33,4}
{31,1,32,31,1}


87-demicube honeycombh{4,35,4}
{31,1,34,4}
{31,1,33,31,1}


98-demicube honeycombh{4,36,4}
{31,1,35,4}
{31,1,34,31,1}


 
nn-demicubic honeycombh{4,3n-3,4}
{31,1,3n-4,4}
{31,1,3n-5,31,1}
...

References

  • Coxeter, H.S.M. Regular Polytopes, (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8
    1. pp. 122–123, 1973. (The lattice of hypercubes γn form the cubic honeycombs, δn+1)
    2. pp. 154–156: Partial truncation or alternation, represented by h prefix: h{4,4}={4,4}; h{4,3,4}={31,1,4}, h{4,3,3,4}={3,3,4,3}
    3. p. 296, Table II: Regular honeycombs, δn+1
  • Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H. S. M. Coxeter, editied by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6 [1]
    • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]
SpaceFamily / /
E2Uniform tiling{3[3]}δ333Hexagonal
E3Uniform convex honeycomb{3[4]}δ444
E4Uniform 4-honeycomb{3[5]}δ55524-cell honeycomb
E5Uniform 5-honeycomb{3[6]}δ666
E6Uniform 6-honeycomb{3[7]}δ777222
E7Uniform 7-honeycomb{3[8]}δ888133331
E8Uniform 8-honeycomb{3[9]}δ999152251521
E9Uniform 9-honeycomb{3[10]}δ101010
E10Uniform 10-honeycomb{3[11]}δ111111
En-1Uniform (n-1)-honeycomb{3[n]}δnnn1k22k1k21