Hypercubic honeycomb


A regular square tiling.

1 color
A cubic honeycomb in its regular form.

1 color

A checkboard square tiling

2 colors
A cubic honeycomb checkerboard.

2 colors

Expanded square tiling

3 colors
Expanded cubic honeycomb

4 colors


4 colors

8 colors

In geometry, a hypercubic honeycomb is a family of regular honeycombs (tessellations) in n-dimensions with the Schläfli symbols {4,3...3,4} and containing the symmetry of Coxeter group Rn (or B~n-1) for n>=3.

The tessellation is constructed from 4 n-hypercubes per ridge. The vertex figure is a cross-polytope {3...3,4}.

The hypercubic honeycombs are self-dual.

Coxeter named this family as δn+1 for an n-dimensional honeycomb.

Wythoff construction classes by dimension

There are two general forms of the hypercube honeycombs, the regular form with identical hypercubic facets and one semiregular, with alternating hypercube facets, like a checkerboard.

A third form is generated by an expansion operation applied to the regular form, creating facets in place of all lower-dimensional elements. For example, an expanded cubic honeycomb has cubic cells centered on the original cubes, on the original faces, on the original edges, on the original vertices, creating 3 colors of cells around in vertex in 1:3:3:1 counts.

The orthotopic honeycombs are a family topologically equivalent to the cubic honeycombs but with lower symmetry, in which each of the three axial directions may have different edge lengths. The facets are hyperrectangles, also called orthotopes; in 2 and 3 dimensions the orthotopes are rectangles and cuboids respectively.

δn Name Schläfli symbols Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
Orthotopic
{∞}n
(2m colors, m<n)		 Regular
(Expanded)
{4,3n-1,4}
(1 color, n colors)		 Checkerboard
{4,3n-4,31,1}
(2 colors)
δ2 Apeirogon {∞}    
δ3 Square tiling {∞}2
{4,4}
δ4 Cubic honeycomb {∞}3
{4,3,4}
{4,31,1}
δ5 4-cube honeycomb {∞}4
{4,32,4}
{4,3,31,1}
δ6 5-cube honeycomb {∞}5
{4,33,4}
{4,32,31,1}
δ7 6-cube honeycomb {∞}6
{4,34,4}
{4,33,31,1}
δ8 7-cube honeycomb {∞}7
{4,35,4}
{4,34,31,1}
δ9 8-cube honeycomb {∞}8
{4,36,4}
{4,35,31,1}
 
δn n-hypercubic honeycomb {∞}n
{4,3n-3,4}
{4,3n-4,31,1}		 ...

See also

References

Fundamental convex regular and uniform honeycombs in dimensions 2–10
Family {\tilde{A}}_{n-1} {\tilde{C}}_{n-1} {\tilde{B}}_{n-1} {\tilde{D}}_{n-1} {\tilde{G}}_2 / {\tilde{F}}_4 / {\tilde{E}}_{n-1}
Uniform tiling {3[3]} δ3 hδ3 qδ3 Hexagonal
Uniform convex honeycomb {3[4]} δ4 hδ4 qδ4
Uniform 5-honeycomb {3[5]} δ5 hδ5 qδ5 24-cell honeycomb
Uniform 6-honeycomb {3[6]} δ6 hδ6 qδ6
Uniform 7-honeycomb {3[7]} δ7 hδ7 qδ7 222
Uniform 8-honeycomb {3[8]} δ8 hδ8 qδ8 133 • 331
Uniform 9-honeycomb {3[9]} δ9 hδ9 qδ9 152 • 251 • 521
Uniform n-honeycomb {3[n]} δn hδn qδn 1k2 • 2k1 • k21
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