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| Hemi-octahedron | |
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| Type | abstract regular polyhedron globally projective polyhedron |
| Faces | 4 triangles |
| Edges | 6 |
| Vertices | 3 |
| Euler char. | χ = 1 |
| Vertex configuration | 3.3.3.3 |
| Schläfli symbol | {3,4}/2 or {3,4}3 |
| Symmetry group | S4, order 24 |
| Dual polyhedron | hemicube |
| Properties | non-orientable |
In geometry, a hemi-octahedron is an abstract regular polyhedron, containing half the faces of a regular octahedron.
It has 4 triangular faces, 6 edges, and 3 vertices. Its dual polyhedron is the hemicube.
It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tessellation of the real projective plane by 4 triangles), which can be visualized by constructing the projective plane as a hemisphere where opposite points along the boundary are connected and dividing the hemisphere into four equal parts. It can be seen as a square pyramid without its base.
It can be represented symmetrically as a hexagonal or square Schlegel diagram:
It has an unexpected property that there are two distinct edges between every pair of vertices – any two vertices define a digon.
See also
References
- McMullen, Peter; Schulte, Egon (December 2002), "6C. Projective Regular Polytopes", Abstract Regular Polytopes (1st ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 162–165, ISBN 0-521-81496-0