Icosahedral prism

Icosahedral prism

In geometry, an icosahedral prism is a convex uniform polychoron (four dimensional polytope). This polychoron has 22 polyhedral cells: 2 icosahedra connected by 20 triangular prisms. It has 70 faces: 30 squares and 40 triangles. It has 72 edges and 24 vertices.

It can be constructed by creating two coinciding icosahedra in 3-space, and translating each copy in opposite perpendicular directions in 4-space until their separation equals their edge length.

Alternative names:
# Icosahedral dyadic prism Norman W. Johnson
# Ipe (for icosahedral prism) Jonathan Bowers
# Icosahedral hyperprism
# Snub tetrahedral prism
# Snub tetrahedral hyperprism

It is one of 18 convex uniform polyhedral prisms created by using uniform prisms to connect pairs of parallel Platonic solids or Archimedean solids.

External links

* [http://members.aol.com/Polycell/section6.html 6. Convex uniform prismatic polychora ] (George Olshevsky) - Model 59


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