An Example Vertex Figure of A Honeycomb
The vertex figure of a truncated cubic honeycomb is a nonuniform square pyramid. One octahedron and four truncated cubes meet at each vertex form a space-filling tessellation.
| Vertex figure: A nonuniform square pyramid | Schlegel diagram |
Perspective |
| Created as a square base from an octahedron | (3.3.3.3) |
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| And four isosceles triangle sides from truncated cubes | (3.8.8) |
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