Truncated 6-cubes

In six-dimensional geometry, a truncated 6-cube (or truncated hexeract) is a convex uniform 6-polytope, being a truncation of the regular 6-cube.

6-cube	Truncated 6-cube	Bitruncated 6-cube	Tritruncated 6-cube
6-orthoplex	Truncated 6-orthoplex	Bitruncated 6-orthoplex
Orthogonal projections in B6 Coxeter plane

There are 5 truncations for the 6-cube. Vertices of the truncated 6-cube are located as pairs on the edge of the 6-cube. Vertices of the bitruncated 6-cube are located on the square faces of the 6-cube. Vertices of the tritruncated 6-cube are located inside the cubic cells of the 6-cube.

Truncated 6-cube

Truncated 6-cube
Type	uniform 6-polytope
Class	B6 polytope
Schläfli symbol	t{4,3,3,3,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
5-faces	76
4-faces	464
Cells	1120
Faces	1520
Edges	1152
Vertices	384
Vertex figure	( )v{3,3,3}
Coxeter groups	B6, [3,3,3,3,4]
Properties	convex

Alternate names

• Truncated hexeract (Acronym: tox) (Jonathan Bowers)^[1]

Construction and coordinates

The truncated 6-cube may be constructed by truncating the vertices of the 6-cube at ${\displaystyle 1/({\sqrt {2}}+2)}$ of the edge length. A regular 5-simplex replaces each original vertex.

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a truncated 6-cube having edge length 2 are the permutations of:

${\displaystyle \left(\pm 1,\ \pm (1+{\sqrt {2}}),\ \pm (1+{\sqrt {2}}),\ \pm (1+{\sqrt {2}}),\ \pm (1+{\sqrt {2}}),\ \pm (1+{\sqrt {2}})\right)}$

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

The truncated 6-cube, is fifth in a sequence of truncated hypercubes:

Truncated hypercubes

Image								...
Name	Octagon	Truncated cube	Truncated tesseract	Truncated 5-cube	Truncated 6-cube	Truncated 7-cube	Truncated 8-cube
Coxeter diagram
Vertex figure	( )v( )	( )v{ }	( )v{3}	( )v{3,3}	( )v{3,3,3}	( )v{3,3,3,3}	( )v{3,3,3,3,3}

Bitruncated 6-cube

Bitruncated 6-cube
Type	uniform 6-polytope
Class	B6 polytope
Schläfli symbol	2t{4,3,3,3,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
5-faces
4-faces
Cells
Faces
Edges
Vertices
Vertex figure	{ }v{3,3}
Coxeter groups	B6, [3,3,3,3,4]
Properties	convex

Alternate names

• Bitruncated hexeract (Acronym: botox) (Jonathan Bowers)^[2]

Construction and coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a bitruncated 6-cube having edge length 2 are the permutations of:

${\displaystyle \left(0,\ \pm 1,\ \pm 2,\ \pm 2,\ \pm 2,\ \pm 2\right)}$

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

The bitruncated 6-cube is fourth in a sequence of bitruncated hypercubes:

Bitruncated hypercubes

Image							...
Name	Bitruncated cube	Bitruncated tesseract	Bitruncated 5-cube	Bitruncated 6-cube	Bitruncated 7-cube	Bitruncated 8-cube
Coxeter
Vertex figure	( )v{ }	{ }v{ }	{ }v{3}	{ }v{3,3}	{ }v{3,3,3}	{ }v{3,3,3,3}

Tritruncated 6-cube

Tritruncated 6-cube
Type	uniform 6-polytope
Class	B6 polytope
Schläfli symbol	3t{4,3,3,3,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams
5-faces
4-faces
Cells
Faces
Edges
Vertices
Vertex figure	{3}v{4}[3]
Coxeter groups	B6, [3,3,3,3,4]
Properties	convex

Alternate names

• Tritruncated hexeract (Acronym: xog) (Jonathan Bowers)^[4]

Construction and coordinates

The Cartesian coordinates of the vertices of a tritruncated 6-cube having edge length 2 are the permutations of:

${\displaystyle \left(0,\ 0,\ \pm 1,\ \pm 2,\ \pm 2,\ \pm 2\right)}$

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

2-isotopic hypercubes

Dim.	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	n
Name	t{4}	r{4,3}	2t{4,3,3}	2r{4,3,3,3}	3t{4,3,3,3,3}	3r{4,3,3,3,3,3}	4t{4,3,3,3,3,3,3}	...
Coxeter diagram
Images
Facets		{3} {4}	t{3,3} t{3,4}	r{3,3,3} r{3,3,4}	2t{3,3,3,3} 2t{3,3,3,4}	2r{3,3,3,3,3} 2r{3,3,3,3,4}	3t{3,3,3,3,3,3} 3t{3,3,3,3,3,4}
Vertex figure	( )v( )	{ }×{ }	{ }v{ }	{3}×{4}	{3}v{4}	{3,3}×{3,4}	{3,3}v{3,4}

The table below contains 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