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4-simplex
(5-cell)		 Cross graph 4.svg
4-orthoplex
(16-cell)		 Hypercubestar.svg
4-cube
(Tesseract)
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24-cell		 120-cell petrie polygon.svg
120-cell		 600-cell petrie polygon.svg
600-cell
Graphs of six convex regular 4-polytope.
Hypercube
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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  • Polychoron 24-cell net

    Polychoron 24-cell net

  • Schlegel half-solid truncated 120-cell

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

  • Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0

    The great grand stellated 120-cell is the largest of 10 regular star 4-polytopes, having 600 vertices.

  • Cubic honeycomb

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

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