Rectified 24-cell

Rectified 24-cell

Schlegel diagram
8 of 24 cuboctahedral cells shown
Type Uniform 4-polytope
Schläfli symbols r{3,4,3} =
rr{3,3,4}=
r{31,1,1} =
Coxeter diagrams

or
Cells 48 24 3.4.3.4
24 4.4.4
Faces 240 96 {3}
144 {4}
Edges 288
Vertices 96
Vertex figure
Triangular prism
Symmetry groups F4 [3,4,3], order 1152
B4 [3,3,4], order 384
D4 [31,1,1], order 192
Properties convex, edge-transitive
Uniform index 22 23 24
Net

In geometry, the rectified 24-cell or rectified icositetrachoron is a uniform 4-dimensional polytope (or uniform 4-polytope), which is bounded by 48 cells: 24 cubes, and 24 cuboctahedra. It can be obtained by rectification of the 24-cell, reducing its octahedral cells to cubes and cuboctahedra.[1]

E. L. Elte identified it in 1912 as a semiregular polytope, labeling it as tC24.

It can also be considered a cantellated 16-cell with the lower symmetries B4 = [3,3,4]. B4 would lead to a bicoloring of the cuboctahedral cells into 8 and 16 each. It is also called a runcicantellated demitesseract in a D4 symmetry, giving 3 colors of cells, 8 for each.

  1. ^ Coxeter 1973, p. 154, §8.4.