Runcinated pentachoron

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Runcinated pentachoron
Schlegel diagram with half of the tetrahedral cells visible.
Type	Uniform polychoron
Cells	10 (3.3.3) 20 (3.4.4)
Faces	40 {3} 30 {4}
Edges	60
Vertices	20
Vertex figure	2 (3.3.3) 6 (3.4.4) (Elongate equilateral-triangular antiprism)
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Symmetry group	[3,3,3] (Order 240)
Schläfli symbol	t_0,3{3,3,3}
Properties	convex

Vertex figure: (Elongate equilateral-triangular antiprism)

2 (3.3.3) and 6 (3.4.4)

In geometry, the runcinated pentatope is a 4-dimensional convex uniform polytope (or uniform polychoron) constructed by expanding the cells of a pentatope radially and filling in the gaps with triangular prisms (which are the face prisms and edge figures) and tetrahedra (cells of the dual pentatope). It consists of 10 tetrahedra and 20 triangular prisms. The 10 tetrahedra correspond with the cells of a pentatope and its dual.

1 Structure
2 Cross-sections
3 Projections
4 Images
5 Alternative names
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Structure

Two of the ten tetrahedral cells meet at each vertex. The triangular prisms lie between them, joined to them by their triangular faces and to each other by their square faces. Each triangular prism is joined to its neighbouring triangular prisms in anti orientation (i.e., if edges A and B in the shared square face are joined to the triangular faces of one prism, then it is the other two edges that are joined to the triangular faces of the other prism); thus each pair of adjacent prisms, if rotated into the same hyperplane, would form a gyrobifastigium.

[edit] Cross-sections

The maximal cross-section of the runcinated 5-cell with a 3-dimensional hyperplane is a cuboctahedron. This cross-section divides the runcinated 5-cell into two 'hemispheres' consisting of 5 tetrahedra and 10 triangular prisms each.

[edit] Projections

The tetrahedron-first orthographic projection of the runcinated pentatope into 3-dimensional space has a cuboctahedral envelope. The structure of this projection is as follows:

The cuboctahedral envelope is divided internally as follows:

Four flattened tetrahedra join 4 of the triangular faces of the cuboctahedron to a central tetrahedron. These are the images of 5 of the tetrahedral cells.
The 6 square faces of the cuboctahedron are joined to the edges of the central tetrahedron via distorted triangular prisms. These are the images of 6 of the triangular prism cells.
The other 4 triangular faces are joined to the central tetrahedron via 4 triangular prisms (distorted by projection). These are the images of another 4 of the triangular prism cells.
This accounts for half of the runcinated 5-cell (5 tetrahedra and 10 triangular prisms), which may be thought of as the 'northern hemisphere'.

The other half, the 'southern hemisphere', corresponds to an isomorphic division of the cuboctahedron in dual orientation, in which the central tetrahedron is dual to the one in the first half. The triangular faces of the cuboctahedron join the triangular prisms in one hemisphere to the flattened tetrahedra in the other hemisphere, and vice versa. Thus, the southern hemisphere contains another 5 tetrahedra and another 10 triangular prisms, making the total of 10 tetrahedra and 20 triangular prisms.