Rectified truncated tetrahedron

{{Short description|Convex polyhedron with 20 faces}}

{{Infobox polyhedron

| image = Rectified_truncated_tetrahedron.png

| type =

| faces = 20:
4 equilateral triangles
12 isosceles triangles
4 hexagons

| edges = 48

| vertices = 12+18

| vertex_config =

| schläfli = {{math|rt{3,3} }}

| wythoff =

| conway = {{math|atT}}

| coxeter =

| symmetry = {{math|Td, [3,3], (*332),}} order 24

| rotation_group = {{math|T, [3,3]+, (332),}} order 12

| dual = Joined truncated tetrahedron

| properties = convex

| vertex_figure =

| net = Rectified truncated tetrahedron net.png

}}

In geometry, the rectified truncated tetrahedron is a polyhedron, constructed as a rectified, truncated tetrahedron. It has 20 faces: 4 equilateral triangles, 12 isosceles triangles, and 4 regular hexagons.

Topologically, the triangles corresponding to the tetrahedron's vertices are always equilateral, although the hexagons, while having equal edge lengths, do not have the same edge lengths with the equilateral triangles, having different but alternating angles, causing the other triangles to be isosceles instead.

Related polyhedra

The rectified truncated tetrahedron can be seen in sequence of rectification and truncation operations from the tetrahedron. Further truncation, and alternation operations creates two more polyhedra:

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!Name

!Truncated
tetrahedron

!Rectified
truncated
tetrahedron

!Truncated
rectified
truncated
tetrahedron

!Snub
rectified
truncated
tetrahedron

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!Coxeter

!rowspan=2|tT

!rtT

!trtT

!srtT

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!Conway

!atT

!btT

!stT

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!Image

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!Conway

|dtT = kT

|jtT

|mtT

|gtT

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!Dual

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See also

References

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  • Coxeter Regular Polytopes, Third edition, (1973), Dover edition, {{isbn|0-486-61480-8}} (pp. 145–154 Chapter 8: Truncation)
  • John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, {{isbn|978-1-56881-220-5}}