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Tetrahemihexahedron


In geometry, the tetrahemihexahedron or hemicuboctahedron is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U4. It has six vertices, 12 edges, and seven faces: four triangular and three square. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. Its Coxeter–Dynkin diagram is CDel node 1.pngCDel 3x.pngCDel rat.pngCDel d2.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.png (although this is a double covering of the tetrahemihexahedron).

It is the only non-prismatic uniform polyhedron with an odd number of faces. Its Wythoff symbol is 3/2 3 | 2, but that represents a double covering of the tetrahemihexahedron with eight triangles and six squares, paired and coinciding in space. (It can more intuitively be seen as two coinciding tetrahemihexahedra.)

It is a hemipolyhedron. The "hemi" part of the name means some of the faces form a group with half as many members as some regular polyhedron—here, three square faces form a group with half as many faces as the regular hexahedron, better known as the cube—hence hemihexahedron. Hemi faces are also oriented in the same direction as the regular polyhedron's faces. The three square faces of the tetrahemihexahedron are, like the three facial orientations of the cube, mutually perpendicular.


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