Antiprism -- from Wolfram MathWorld

A general -gonal antiprism is a polyhedron consisting of identical top and bottom -gonal faces whose periphery is bounded by a band of triangles with alternating up-down orientations.

If the top and bottom faces are regular n-gons displaced relative to one another in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the polygons and rotated relative to one another by an angle of degrees, then the antiprism is known as a right antiprism and its lateral faces are isosceles triangles.

A uniform or equilateral antiprism, sometimes simply called an "antiprism" (e.g., Cromwell 1997, p. 85) is a semiregular polyhedron constructed from two regular n-gons and equilateral triangles, where the -gons are rotated by an angle with respect to each other and vertically separated by such a height that the triangular edges connecting top and bottom -gons have the same length as the -gon sides. Such antiprisms have the highest degree of symmetry and their nets are particularly simple, consisting of two -gons on top and bottom, separated by a ribbon of equilateral triangles, with the two -gons being offset by one ribbon segment.

The duals of the antiprisms are the trapezohedra.

The graph corresponding to the skeleton of an antiprism is known, not surprisingly, as an antiprism graph.

The sagitta of a regular n-gon of side length has length

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Let be the length of a lateral edge when the top and bottom bases of a right antiprism separated by a distance , then

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For an equilateral antiprism , so solving for gives

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Consider an equilateral antiprism of height and base circumradius . The circumradius is then given by

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where

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is the circumradius of one of the bases.

The regular tetrahedron can be considered a degenerate 2-equilateral antiprism, and the 3-equilateral antiprism of height (for side length ) is simply the regular octahedron. The first few heights producing equilateral antiprisms for , 4, ... are then

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The surface area of a right -gonal antiprism is

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For an equilateral antiprism, this simplifies to

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The surface area for equilateral antiprisms with , 4, ... are then

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To find the volume of a right antiprism, label vertices as in the above figure. Then the vectors and are given by

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so a normal vector to one of the lateral facial planes is

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and the unit normal vector is

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The height of a pyramid with apex at the center and the lateral triangle as its base is the projection of a vector from the origin to a point on the facial plane onto its unit normal vector,