- 8-cubic honeycomb
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8-cubic honeycomb (no image) Type Regular 8-dimensional honeycomb Family Hypercube honeycomb Schläfli symbol {4,36,4}
{4,35,31,1}
t0,8{4,36,4}
{∞}8Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
8-face type {4,36} 7-face type {4,35} 6-face type {4,34} 5-face type {4,33} 4-face type {4,32} Cell type {4,3} Face type {4} Face figure {4,3}
(octahedron)Edge figure 8 {4,3,3}
(16-cell)Vertex figure 256 {4,36}
(8-orthoplex)Coxeter group [4,36,4] Dual self-dual Properties vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive, cell-transitive The 8-cubic honeycomb or octeractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 8-space.
It is analogous to the square tiling of the plane and to the cubic honeycomb of 3-space, and the tesseractic honeycomb of 4-space.
There are many different Wythoff constructions of this honeycomb. The most symmetric form is regular, with Schläfli symbol {4,36,4}. Another form has two alternating hypercube facets (like a checkerboard) with Schläfli symbol {4,35,31,1}. The lowest symmetry Wythoff construction has 256 types of facets around each vertex and a prismatic product Schläfli symbol {∞}8.
See also
- Tesseractic honeycomb
- Penteractic honeycomb
- Hexeractic honeycomb
- Hepteractic honeycomb
- List of regular polytopes
References
- Coxeter, H.S.M. Regular Polytopes, (3rd edition, 1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8 p.296, Table II: Regular honeycombs
- Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6 [1]
- (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]
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