Octagonal prism
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Short description: Prism with an 8-sided base
Template:Prism even polyhedron stat table In geometry, the octagonal prism is a prism comprising eight rectangular sides joining two regular octagon caps.
Symmetry
| Name | Ditetragonal prism | Ditetragonal trapezoprism |
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| Symmetry | D4h, [2,4], (*422) | D4d, [2+,8], (2*4) |
| Construction | tr{4,2} or t{4}×{},   
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s2{2,8},   
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Images
The octagonal prism can also be seen as a tiling on a sphere:
Use
In optics, octagonal prisms are used to generate flicker-free images in movie projectors.
In uniform honeycombs and 4-polytopes
It is an element of three uniform honeycombs:
Truncated square prismatic honeycomb 
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Omnitruncated cubic honeycomb
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Runcitruncated cubic honeycomb
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It is also an element of two four-dimensional uniform 4-polytopes:
| Runcitruncated tesseract
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Omnitruncated tesseract
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Related polyhedra
External links
- Weisstein, Eric W.. "Octagonal prism". http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OctagonalPrism.html.
- Interactive model of an Octagonal Prism
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