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Polytetrahedron
Polytetrahedron
is a term used for three
distinct
types
of
objects
, all based
on the tetrahedron:
A
uniform convex 4-polytope
made up of
600
tetrahedral
cells
. It is more commonly known as a
600-cell
or
hexacosichoron
. Other
derivative
4-polytope
are
identified
as polytetrahedra, where a
qualifying
prefix
such as
rectified
or
truncated
is used.
A
connected set
of
regular
tetrahedra, the
3-dimensional
analogue
of a
polyiamond
. Polytetrahedra and polyiamonds are related as
polycubes
are related to
polyominoes
.
In
origami
, a
polypolyhedron
is "a
compound
of
multiple
linked
polyhedral
skeletons
with
uniform
nonintersecting edges" .
There exist
two
topologically
distinct polytetrahedra, each made up of four
intersecting
triangles
.