Cube

Cube
TypePlatonic solid
Regular polyhedron
Parallelohedron
Zonohedron
Plesiohedron
Hanner polytope
Faces6
Edges12
Vertices8
Symmetry groupoctahedral symmetry
Dihedral angle (degrees)90°
Dual polyhedronregular octahedron
Propertiesconvex,
face-transitive,
edge-transitive,
vertex-transitive

In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, framed by twelve edges, and cornered by eight vertices. It can be represented as the rectangular cuboid with six faces are all squares, and parallelepiped with the edges are all equal. It is an example of many type of solids: Platonic solid, regular polyhedron, parallelohedron, zonohedron, and plesiohedron. The dual polyhedron of a cube is the regular octahedron.

The cube can be represented in many ways, one of them is the graph, which can be constructed by using the Cartesian product of graphs. It was discovered in antiquity. It was associated with the nature of earth by Plato, the founder of Platonic solid. It was used as the part of the Solar System, proposed by Johannes Kepler. It can be derived differently to create more polyhedrons, and it has applications to construct a new polyhedron by attaching others. It can be generalized as tesseract in four-dimensional space.