Rectified 8-orthoplexes

In eight-dimensional geometry, a rectified 8-orthoplex is a convex uniform 8-polytope, being a rectification of the regular 8-orthoplex.

8-orthoplex	Rectified 8-orthoplex	Birectified 8-orthoplex	Trirectified 8-orthoplex
Trirectified 8-cube	Birectified 8-cube	Rectified 8-cube	8-cube
Orthogonal projections in A8 Coxeter plane

There are unique 8 degrees of rectifications, the zeroth being the 8-orthoplex, and the 7th and last being the 8-cube. Vertices of the rectified 8-orthoplex are located at the edge-centers of the 8-orthoplex. Vertices of the birectified 8-orthoplex are located in the triangular face centers of the 8-orthoplex. Vertices of the trirectified 8-orthoplex are located in the tetrahedral cell centers of the 8-orthoplex.

Rectified 8-orthoplex

Rectified 8-orthoplex
Type	uniform 8-polytope
Schläfli symbol	t1{3,3,3,3,3,3,4}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
7-faces	272
6-faces	3072
5-faces	8960
4-faces	12544
Cells	10080
Faces	4928
Edges	1344
Vertices	112
Vertex figure	6-orthoplex prism
Petrie polygon	hexakaidecagon
Coxeter groups	C8, [4,36] D8, [35,1,1]
Properties	convex

The rectified 8-orthoplex has 112 vertices. These represent the root vectors of the simple Lie group D₈. The vertices can be seen in 3 hyperplanes, with the 28 vertices rectified 7-simplexs cells on opposite sides, and 56 vertices of an expanded 7-simplex passing through the center. When combined with the 16 vertices of the 8-orthoplex, these vertices represent the 128 root vectors of the B₈ and C₈ simple Lie groups.

Related polytopes

The rectified 8-orthoplex is the vertex figure for the demiocteractic honeycomb.

or

Alternate names

• rectified octacross
• rectified diacosipentacontahexazetton (Acronym: rek) (Jonathan Bowers)^[1]

Construction

There are two Coxeter groups associated with the rectified 8-orthoplex, one with the C₈ or [4,3⁶] Coxeter group, and a lower symmetry with two copies of heptcross facets, alternating, with the D₈ or [3^5,1,1] Coxeter group.

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a rectified 8-orthoplex, centered at the origin, edge length ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}$ are all permutations of:

(±1,±1,0,0,0,0,0,0)

Images

orthographic projections

B8			B7
[16]			[14]
B6			B5
[12]			[10]
B4		B3		B2
[8]		[6]		[4]
A7		A5		A3
[8]		[6]		[4]

Birectified 8-orthoplex

Birectified 8-orthoplex
Type	uniform 8-polytope
Schläfli symbol	t2{3,3,3,3,3,3,4}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
7-faces	272
6-faces	3184
5-faces	16128
4-faces	34048
Cells	36960
Faces	22400
Edges	6720
Vertices	448
Vertex figure	{3,3,3,4}x{3}
Coxeter groups	C8, [3,3,3,3,3,3,4] D8, [35,1,1]
Properties	convex

Alternate names

• birectified octacross
• birectified diacosipentacontahexazetton (Acronym: bark) (Jonathan Bowers)^[2]

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a birectified 8-orthoplex, centered at the origin, edge length ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}$ are all permutations of:

(±1,±1,±1,0,0,0,0,0)

Images

orthographic projections

B8			B7
[16]			[14]
B6			B5
[12]			[10]
B4		B3		B2
[8]		[6]		[4]
A7		A5		A3
[8]		[6]		[4]

Trirectified 8-orthoplex

Trirectified 8-orthoplex
Type	uniform 8-polytope
Schläfli symbol	t3{3,3,3,3,3,3,4}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
7-faces	16+256
6-faces	1024 + 2048 + 112
5-faces	1792 + 7168 + 7168 + 448
4-faces	1792 + 10752 + 21504 + 14336
Cells	8960 + 126880 + 35840
Faces	17920 + 35840
Edges	17920
Vertices	1120
Vertex figure	{3,3,4}x{3,3}
Coxeter groups	C8, [3,3,3,3,3,3,4] D8, [35,1,1]
Properties	convex

The trirectified 8-orthoplex can tessellate space in the quadrirectified 8-cubic honeycomb.

Alternate names

• trirectified octacross
• trirectified diacosipentacontahexazetton (acronym: tark) (Jonathan Bowers)^[3]

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a trirectified 8-orthoplex, centered at the origin, edge length ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}$ are all permutations of:

(±1,±1,±1,±1,0,0,0,0)

Images

orthographic projections

B8			B7
[16]			[14]
B6			B5
[12]			[10]
B4		B3		B2
[8]		[6]		[4]
A7		A5		A3
[8]		[6]		[4]