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 | |
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.
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.