Rectified truncated tetrahedron
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Short description: Convex polyhedron with 20 faces
| Rectified truncated tetrahedron | |
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| Faces | 20: 4 equilateral triangles 12 isosceles triangles 4 hexagons |
| Edges | 48 |
| Vertices | 12+18 |
| Schläfli symbol | rt{3,3} |
| Symmetry group | Td, [3,3], (*332), order 24 |
| Rotation group | T, [3,3]+, (332), order 12 |
| Dual polyhedron | Joined truncated tetrahedron |
| Properties | convex |
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In geometry, the rectified truncated tetrahedron is a polyhedron, constructed as a rectified, truncated tetrahedron. It has 20 faces: 4 equilateral triangles, 12 isosceles triangles, and 4 regular hexagons.
Topologically, the triangles corresponding to the tetrahedron's vertices are always equilateral, although the hexagons, while having equal edge lengths, do not have the same edge lengths with the equilateral triangles, having different but alternating angles, causing the other triangles to be isosceles instead.
Related polyhedra
The rectified truncated tetrahedron can be seen in sequence of rectification and truncation operations from the tetrahedron. Further truncation, and alternation operations creates two more polyhedra:
| Name | Truncated tetrahedron |
Rectified truncated tetrahedron |
Truncated rectified truncated tetrahedron |
Snub rectified truncated tetrahedron |
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| Coxeter | tT | rtT | trtT | srtT |
| Conway | atT | btT | stT | |
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| Conway | dtT = kT | jtT | mtT | gtT |
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See also
- Rectified truncated cube
- Rectified truncated octahedron
- Rectified truncated dodecahedron
- Rectified truncated icosahedron
References
- Coxeter Regular Polytopes, Third edition, (1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8 (pp. 145–154 Chapter 8: Truncation)
- John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5
External links
- George Hart's Conway interpreter: generates polyhedra in VRML, taking Conway notation as input
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