In geometry, a spherical polyhedron or spherical tiling is a tiling of the sphere in which the surface is divided or partitioned by great arcs into bounded...
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a (globally) projective polyhedron is a tessellation of the real projective plane. These are projective analogs of spherical polyhedra – tessellations...
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Wenninger's Spherical models, polyhedra are given geodesic notation in the form {3,q+}b,c, where {3,q} is the Schläfli symbol for the regular polyhedron with...
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In geometry, a polyhedron (pl.: polyhedra or polyhedrons; from Greek πολύ (poly-) 'many' and ἕδρον (-hedron) 'base, seat') is a three-dimensional figure...
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projection based on a spherical polyhedron. Typically, the polyhedron is overlaid on the globe, and each face of the polyhedron is transformed to a polygon...
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Cube (redirect from Spherical cube)
The spherical cube represents the spherical polyhedron, which can be modeled by the arc of great circles, creating bounds as the edges of a spherical square...
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topologically self-dual. Projective polyhedron Skew apeirohedron (infinite skew polyhedron) Spherical polyhedron Toroidal graph Whiteley (1979); Stewart...
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A regular polyhedron is a polyhedron whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags. A regular polyhedron is highly symmetrical, being all of edge-transitive...
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Truncated icosahedron (redirect from Spherical truncated icosahedron)
55.288a^{3}.\end{aligned}}} The sphericity of a polyhedron Ψ {\displaystyle \Psi } describes how closely a polyhedron resembles a sphere. It can be defined...
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spherical distance Lenart sphere Schwarz triangle Spherical geometry Spherical polyhedron Triangulation (surveying) Todhunter, I. (1886). Spherical Trigonometry...
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Digon (section As a spherical lune)
transforming polyhedra. A spherical lune is a digon whose two vertices are antipodal points on the sphere. A spherical polyhedron constructed from such digons...
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In geometry, a uniform polyhedron has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive—there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any other. It follows...
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triacontahedron has the most faces of any other strictly convex polyhedron where every face of the polyhedron has the same shape. Projected into a sphere, the edges...
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positive value of f, this exceeds 180°. Spherical astronomy Spherical conic Spherical distance Spherical polyhedron Spherics Half-side formula Lénárt sphere Versor...
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Platonic solid (redirect from Convex regular polyhedron)
Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical...
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faces represent the 24 fundamental domains of tetrahedral symmetry. This polyhedron can be constructed from 6 great circles on a sphere. It can also be seen...
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Schläfli symbol {2,n}, with each spherical lune having internal angle 2π/nradians (360/n degrees). For a regular polyhedron whose Schläfli symbol is {m...
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Midsphere (redirect from Canonical polyhedron)
or intersphere of a convex polyhedron is a sphere which is tangent to every edge of the polyhedron. Not every polyhedron has a midsphere, but the uniform...
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Euler characteristic (redirect from Euler's polyhedron formula)
numbers of vertices (corners), edges and faces in the given polyhedron. Any convex polyhedron's surface has Euler characteristic χ = V − E + F = 2 ....
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Density (polytope) (redirect from Polyhedron density)
value for density corresponds to the number of times the associated spherical polyhedron covers the sphere. ∑ i d v i v i − e + ∑ i d f i f i = 2 D {\displaystyle...
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Abstract polytope (redirect from Abstract polyhedron)
given manifold. If K and L are spherical (that is, tessellations of a topological sphere), then P is called locally spherical and corresponds itself to a...
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Hemipolyhedron (redirect from Hemi-polyhedron)
such as the hemi-cube, which are the image of a 2 to 1 map of a spherical polyhedron with central symmetry. Their Wythoff symbols are of the form p/(p − q) p/q | r;...
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Tetrahedron (redirect from Spherical tetrahedron)
tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertices...
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Polytope compound (redirect from Polyhedron compound)
form a convex polyhedron called its convex hull. A compound is a faceting of its convex hull.[citation needed] Another convex polyhedron is formed by the...
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Dihedron (section As a flat-faced polyhedron)
A dihedron (pl. dihedra) is a type of polyhedron, made of two polygon faces which share the same set of n edges. In three-dimensional Euclidean space,...
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dodecahedron. The edges of a spherical disdyakis dodecahedron belong to 9 great circles. Three of them form a spherical octahedron (gray in the images...
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Compound of five octahedra (category Polyhedron stubs)
The compound of five octahedra is one of the five regular polyhedron compounds, and can also be seen as a stellation. It was first described by Edmund...
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Pentagonal trapezohedron (section Spherical tiling)
infinite family of trapezohedra, face-transitive polyhedra. Its dual polyhedron is the pentagonal antiprism. As a decahedron it has ten faces which are...
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Three-dimensional space Regular polyhedron Platonic solid: Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron Regular spherical polyhedron Dihedron, Hosohedron...
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