Tetragonal disphenoid honeycomb

The tetragonal disphenoid tetrahedral honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of identical tetragonal disphenoidal cells. Cells are face-transitive with 4 identical isosceles triangle faces. John Horton Conway calls it an oblate tetrahedrille or shortened to obtetrahedrille.

Tetragonal disphenoid tetrahedral honeycomb
Typeconvex uniform honeycomb dual
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Cell type
Tetragonal disphenoid
Face typesisosceles triangle {3}
Vertex figure
tetrakis hexahedron
Space groupIm3m (229)
Symmetry[[4, 3, 4]]
Coxeter group, [4, 3, 4]
DualBitruncated cubic honeycomb
Propertiescell-transitive, face-transitive, vertex-transitive

A cell can be seen as 1/12 of a translational cube, with its vertices centered on two faces and two edges. Four of its edges belong to 6 cells, and two edges belong to 4 cells.

The tetrahedral disphenoid honeycomb is the dual of the uniform bitruncated cubic honeycomb.

Its vertices form the A*
3
/ D*
3
lattice, which is also known as the body-centered cubic lattice.

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