Tetragonal trapezohedron

This shape has been used as a test case for hexahedral mesh generation,{{citation

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| pages = 58–67

| publisher = ACM

| title = Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG '96)

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| title = The all-hex geode-template for conforming a diced tetrahedral mesh to any diced hexahedral mesh

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| pages = 385–413

| title = Construction techniques for cubical complexes, odd cubical 4-polytopes, and prescribed dual manifolds

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| contribution = A constructive approach to constrained hexahedral mesh generation

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| location = Berlin

| pages = 435–452

| publisher = Springer

| title = Proceedings of the 15th International Meshing Roundtable

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| contribution = Efficiently hex-meshing things with topology

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| pages = 37–46

| publisher = ACM

| title = Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG '13)

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}}. simplifying an earlier test case posited by mathematician Robert Schneiders in the form of a square pyramid with its boundary subdivided into 16 quadrilaterals. In this context the tetragonal trapezohedron has also been called the cubical octahedron, quadrilateral octahedron, or octagonal spindle, because it has eight quadrilateral faces and is uniquely defined as a combinatorial polyhedron by that property. Adding four cuboids to a mesh for the cubical octahedron would also give a mesh for Schneiders' pyramid. As a simply-connected polyhedron with an even number of quadrilateral faces, the cubical octahedron can be decomposed into topological cuboids with curved faces that meet face-to-face without subdividing the boundary quadrilaterals,{{citation

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| pages = 465–476

| publisher = Springer

| series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science

| title = STACS 96: 13th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science Grenoble, France, February 22–24, 1996, Proceedings

| volume = 1046

| isbn = 978-3-540-60922-3

| year = 1996| url = https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc626609/

}}. and an explicit mesh of this type has been constructed. However, it is unclear whether a decomposition of this type can be obtained in which all the cuboids are convex polyhedra with flat faces.

A tetragonal trapezohedron appears in the upper left as one of the polyhedral "stars" in M. C. Escher's 1948 wood engraving Stars.

The tetragonal trapezohedron also exists as a spherical tiling, with 2 vertices on the poles, and alternating vertices equally spaced above and below the equator.

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The tetragonal trapezohedron is first in a series of dual snub polyhedra and tilings with face configuration V3.3.4.3.n.

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• [http://www.korthalsaltes.com/model.php?name_en=square%20trapezohedron Paper model tetragonal (square) trapezohedron]
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