bitruncation
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- In regular polyhedra and tilings
- In regular 4-polytopes and honeycombs
- Self-dual {p,q,p} 4-polytope/honeycombs
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A bitruncated cube is a truncated [[octahedron.]] thumb|A bitruncated cubic honeycomb - Cubic cells become orange truncated octahedra, and vertices are replaced by blue truncated octahedra.
In geometry, a bitruncation is an operation on regular polytopes. The original edges are lost completely and the original faces remain as smaller copies of themselves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bitruncation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.