Polychoron facts for kids

4-simplex (5-cell)	4-orthoplex (16-cell)	4-cube (Tesseract)
24-cell	120-cell	600-cell
Graphs of six convex regular 4-polytope.

The tesseract is the best known polychoron, containing eight cubic cells, three around each edge.It is viewed here as a Schlegel diagram projection into 3-space, distorting the regularity, but keeping its topological continuity. The eighth cell projects into the volume of space exterior to the boundary.

In geometry, a polychoron (plural: polychora) is a figure in four dimensions. The word comes from Greek poly, which means many and choros which means room, or space. Sometimes the figure is called 4-polytope or polyhedroid. The analogue figure in two dimensions is a polygon, and the one in three dimensions is a polyhedron.

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  The truncated 120-cell is one of 47 convex non-prismatic uniform 4-polytopes

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  The regular cubic honeycomb is the only infinite regular 4-polytope in Euclidean 3-dimensional space.

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In Spanish: Polícoro para niños