Grand 600-cell

Grand 600-cell

Orthogonal projection
TypeRegular star 4-polytope
Cells600 {3,3}
Faces1200 {3}
Edges720
Vertices120
Vertex figure{3,5/2}
Schläfli symbol {3,3,5/2}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Symmetry groupH4, [3,3,5]
Dual Great grand stellated 120-cell
Properties Regular

In geometry, the grand 600-cell or grand polytetrahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol {3,3,5/2}. It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes. It is the only one with 600 cells.

It is one of four regular star 4-polytopes discovered by Ludwig Schläfli. It is named by John Horton Conway, extending the naming system by Arthur Cayley for the Kepler-Poinsot solids.

Related polytopes

It has the same edge arrangement as the great stellated 120-cell, and grand stellated 120-cell, and same face arrangement as the great icosahedral 120-cell. As the only stellation of the 600-cell among the Schläfli-Hess polytopes, it could be taken as analogous to the three-dimensional great icosahedron, the only stellation of the icosahedron among the Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra. Indeed, the great 600-cell is dual to the great grand stellated 120-cell, which could be taken as a 4D analogue of the great stellated dodecahedron, dual of the great icosahedron.

Orthographic projections by Coxeter planes
H3 A2 / B3 / D4 A3 / B2

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