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120-cell

The 120-cell is a finite regular four-dimensional polytope with Schläfli symbol {5,3,3}. It is also known as the hyperdodecahedron or hecatonicosachoron, and is composed of 120 dodecahedra, with 3 to an edge, and 720 pentagons (Coxeter 1973, p. 264). The 120-cell has 600 vertices (Coxeter 1969) and 1200 edges. It is one of the six regular polychora.

In the plate following p. 176, Coxeter (1973) illustrates the polytope.

The dual of the 120-cell is the 600-cell.

The vertices of the 120-cell with circumradius 2sqrt(2) and edge length 3-sqrt(5) are given by the following sets, where phi is the golden ratio (Coxeter 1969, p. 404).

1. A set of 24 vectors given by 2(+/-1,+/-1,0,0) and all its permutations.

2. A set of 64 given by (+/-sqrt(5),+/-1,+/-1,+/-1) and all its permutations.

3. A set of 64 given by (+/-phi^(-2),+/-phi,+/-phi,+/-phi) and all its permutations.

4. A set of 64 given by (+/-phi^2,+/-phi^(-1),+/-phi^(-1),+/-phi^(-1)) and all its permutations.

5. A set of 96 given by (+/-phi^2,+/-phi^(-2),+/-1,0) and all its even permutations.

6. A set of 96 given by (+/-sqrt(5),+/-phi^(-1),+/-phi,0) and all its even permutations.

7. A set of 192 given by (+/-2,+/-1,+/-phi,+/-phi^(-1)) and all its even permutations.

There are 30 distinct nonzero distances between vertices of the 120-cell in 4-space.

120-cell laser crystal (Bathsheba Grossman)
120-cell metal sculpture (Bathsheba Grossman)

The top image above shows a projection of the 120-cell laser-etched into glass, and the two bottom images show a projection visualized as a metal sculpture. Both works were created by digital sculptor Bathsheba Grossman (https://www.bathsheba.com/).

The 120-cell graph is the skeleton of the 120-cell.

The 120-cell has

 2^75^27^3(2^(114)3^(78)5^(20)7^(33)+2^(47)3^(18)5^27^(12)53^52311^3+239^23931^2) approx 2.760×10^(119)

distinct nets (Buekenhout and Parker 1998).


See also

120-Cell Graph, 11-Cell, 16-Cell, 24-Cell, 57-Cell, 600-Cell, Cell, Hypercube, Pentatope, Polychoron, Polytope, Simplex

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References

Buekenhout, F. and Parker, M. "The Number of Nets of the Regular Convex Polytopes in Dimension <=4." Disc. Math. 186, 69-94, 1998.Coxeter, H. S. M. Introduction to Geometry, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, p. 404, 1969.Coxeter, H. S. M. "Stellating {5,3,3}." §14.2 in Regular Polytopes, 3rd ed. New York: Dover, pp. 136-137, 157, 264-267, and 292, 1973.Grossman, B. "The 120-Cell." https://www.bathsheba.com/math/120cell/.Grossman, B. "120-Cell Crystal." https://web.archive.org/web/20040820123126/http://www.bathsheba.com/crystalsci/120cell/.Stillwell, J. "The Story of the 120-Cell." Not. Amer. Math. Soc. 48, 17-24, 2001.Swab, E. "120-Cell." https://web.archive.org/web/20021012064520/http://users.adelphia.net:80/~eswab/120cell.htm.Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry. London, England: Penguin, p. 210, 1991.

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