Cantellation (geometry)

In geometry, a cantellation is an operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope edges and vertices, creating a new facet in place of each edge and vertex. The operation also applies to regular tilings and honeycombs.

It is represented by an extended Schläfli symbol t_0,2{p,q,...}.

For polyhedra, a cantellation operation offers a direct sequence from a regular polyhedron and its dual.

This operation (for polyhedra and tilings) is also called expansion by Alicia Boole Stott, as imagined by taking the faces of the regular form moving them away from the center and filling in new faces in the gaps for each opened vertex and edge.

Example cantellation sequence between a cube and octahedron

For higher dimensional polytopes, a cantellation offers a direct sequence from a regular polytope and its rectified form.

See also

* uniform polyhedron
* uniform polychoron
* Rectification (geometry)

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