Rectified 6-cubes

In six-dimensional geometry, a rectified 6-cube is a convex uniform 6-polytope, being a rectification of the regular 6-cube.

6-cube	Rectified 6-cube	Birectified 6-cube
Birectified 6-orthoplex	Rectified 6-orthoplex	6-orthoplex
Orthogonal projections in B6 Coxeter plane

There are unique 6 degrees of rectifications, the zeroth being the 6-cube, and the 6th and last being the 6-orthoplex. Vertices of the rectified 6-cube are located at the edge-centers of the 6-cube. Vertices of the birectified 6-cube are located in the square face centers of the 6-cube.

Rectified 6-cube

Rectified 6-cube
Type	uniform 6-polytope
Schläfli symbol	t1{4,34} or r{4,34} ${\displaystyle \left\{{\begin{array}{l}4\\3,3,3,3\end{array}}\right\}}$
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams	=
5-faces	76
4-faces	444
Cells	1120
Faces	1520
Edges	960
Vertices	192
Vertex figure	5-cell prism
Petrie polygon	Dodecagon
Coxeter groups	B6, [3,3,3,3,4] D6, [33,1,1]
Properties	convex

Alternate names

• Rectified hexeract (acronym: rax) (Jonathan Bowers)^[1]

Construction

The rectified 6-cube may be constructed from the 6-cube by truncating its vertices at the midpoints of its edges.

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of the rectified 6-cube with edge length √2 are all permutations of:

${\displaystyle (0,\ \pm 1,\ \pm 1,\ \pm 1,\ \pm 1,\ \pm 1)}$

Images

orthographic projections

Coxeter plane	B6	B5	B4
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[12]	[10]	[8]
Coxeter plane	B3	B2
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[6]	[4]
Coxeter plane	A5	A3
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[6]	[4]

Birectified 6-cube

Birectified 6-cube
Type	uniform 6-polytope
Coxeter symbol	0311
Schläfli symbol	t2{4,34} or 2r{4,34} ${\displaystyle \left\{{\begin{array}{l}3,4\\3,3,3\end{array}}\right\}}$
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams	= =
5-faces	76
4-faces	636
Cells	2080
Faces	3200
Edges	1920
Vertices	240
Vertex figure	{4}x{3,3} duoprism
Coxeter groups	B6, [3,3,3,3,4] D6, [33,1,1]
Properties	convex

Alternate names

• Birectified hexeract (acronym: brox) (Jonathan Bowers)^[2]
• Rectified 6-demicube

Construction

The birectified 6-cube may be constructed from the 6-cube by truncating its vertices at the midpoints of its edges.

Coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of the rectified 6-cube with edge length √2 are all permutations of:

${\displaystyle (0,\ 0,\ \pm 1,\ \pm 1,\ \pm 1,\ \pm 1)}$

Images

orthographic projections

Coxeter plane	B6	B5	B4
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[12]	[10]	[8]
Coxeter plane	B3	B2
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[6]	[4]
Coxeter plane	A5	A3
Graph
Dihedral symmetry	[6]	[4]

Related polytopes

These polytopes are part of a set of 63 uniform 6-polytopes generated from the B₆ Coxeter plane, including the regular 6-cube or 6-orthoplex.

B6 polytopes
β6	t1β6	t2β6	t2γ6	t1γ6	γ6	t0,1β6	t0,2β6
t1,2β6	t0,3β6	t1,3β6	t2,3γ6	t0,4β6	t1,4γ6	t1,3γ6	t1,2γ6
t0,5γ6	t0,4γ6	t0,3γ6	t0,2γ6	t0,1γ6	t0,1,2β6	t0,1,3β6	t0,2,3β6
t1,2,3β6	t0,1,4β6	t0,2,4β6	t1,2,4β6	t0,3,4β6	t1,2,4γ6	t1,2,3γ6	t0,1,5β6
t0,2,5β6	t0,3,4γ6	t0,2,5γ6	t0,2,4γ6	t0,2,3γ6	t0,1,5γ6	t0,1,4γ6	t0,1,3γ6
t0,1,2γ6	t0,1,2,3β6	t0,1,2,4β6	t0,1,3,4β6	t0,2,3,4β6	t1,2,3,4γ6	t0,1,2,5β6	t0,1,3,5β6
t0,2,3,5γ6	t0,2,3,4γ6	t0,1,4,5γ6	t0,1,3,5γ6	t0,1,3,4γ6	t0,1,2,5γ6	t0,1,2,4γ6	t0,1,2,3γ6
t0,1,2,3,4β6	t0,1,2,3,5β6	t0,1,2,4,5β6	t0,1,2,4,5γ6	t0,1,2,3,5γ6	t0,1,2,3,4γ6	t0,1,2,3,4,5γ6