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Trigonal trapezohedron

Trigonal trapezohedron
Trigonal trapezohedron
Type trapezohedron
Conway notation dA3
Coxeter diagram
Faces 6 rhombi
Edges 12
Vertices 8
Face configuration 3,3,3,3
Symmetry group D3d, [2+,6], (2*3), order 12
Rotation group D3, [2,3]+, (223), order 6
Dual polyhedron trigonal antiprism
Properties convex, equilateral polygon, face-transitive, zonohedron, parallelohedron

In geometry, a trigonal trapezohedron is a polyhedron with six congruent quadrilateral faces, which may be scalene or rhomboid.[1][2] The variety with rhombus-shaped faces faces is a rhombohedron.[3][4] An alternative name for the same shape is the trigonal deltohedron.[5]

  1. ^ Cromwell, P.Polyhedra, ppbk CUP 1999, pp.302,304,367.
  2. ^ Cundy & Rollett (p.117).
  3. ^ Lines, L (1965). Solid geometry: with chapters on space-lattices, sphere-packs and crystals. Dover Publications.
  4. ^ Grünbaum, Branko (2010). "The Bilinski dodecahedron and assorted parallelohedra, zonohedra, monohedra, isozonohedra, and otherhedra". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 32 (4): 5–15. doi:10.1007/s00283-010-9138-7. hdl:1773/15593. MR 2747698.
  5. ^ Futamura, F.; Frantz, M.; Crannell, A. (2014). "The cross ratio as a shape parameter for Dürer's solid". Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 8 (3–4): 111–119. doi:10.1080/17513472.2014.974483. MR 3292158.

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