antiprism
Sign in to savethumb|Octagonal antiprism In geometry, an antiprism or is a polyhedron composed of two parallel direct copies (not mirror images) of an polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. They are represented by the Conway notation .
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Within Vinony's link graph, antiprism is referenced by 407 other articles, and connects out to polyhedron, dual polyhedron and square antiprism.
Vinony files it under Prismatoid polyhedra and Uniform polyhedra.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- uniform polyhedron
- Image
- Antiprism17.jpg
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- has facet polytope
- triangle
- Commons category
- Antiprisms
- dual to
- trapezohedron
- has characteristic
- surface area
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Special cases
- Right antiprism
- Uniform antiprism
- Properties
- Volume and surface area
- Derivation
- Generalizations
- In higher dimensions
- Self-crossing polyhedra
- Number of uniform crossed antiprisms
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Octagonal antiprism In geometry, an antiprism or is a polyhedron composed of two parallel direct copies (not mirror images) of an polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. They are represented by the Conway notation .
Antiprisms are a subclass of prismatoids, and are a (degenerate) type of snub polyhedron.
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