antiprism
thumb|Octagonal antiprism In geometry, an antiprism or is a polyhedron composed of two parallel direct copies (not mirror images) of an polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. They are represented by the Conway notation .
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Special cases
- Right antiprism
- Uniform antiprism
- Properties
- Volume and surface area
- Derivation
- Generalizations
- In higher dimensions
- Self-crossing polyhedra
- Number of uniform crossed antiprisms
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Octagonal antiprism In geometry, an antiprism or is a polyhedron composed of two parallel direct copies (not mirror images) of an polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. They are represented by the Conway notation .
Antiprisms are a subclass of prismatoids, and are a (degenerate) type of snub polyhedron.