Truncated 8-cubes
In eight-dimensional geometry, a truncated 8-cube is a convex uniform 8-polytope, being a truncation of the regular 8-cube.
|  8-cube                |  Truncated 8-cube                |  Bitruncated 8-cube                | ||
|  Quadritruncated 8-cube                |  Tritruncated 8-cube                |  Tritruncated 8-orthoplex                | ||
|  Bitruncated 8-orthoplex                |  Truncated 8-orthoplex                |  8-orthoplex                | ||
| Orthogonal projections in B8 Coxeter plane | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
There are unique 7 degrees of truncation for the 8-cube. Vertices of the truncation 8-cube are located as pairs on the edge of the 8-cube. Vertices of the bitruncated 8-cube are located on the square faces of the 8-cube. Vertices of the tritruncated 7-cube are located inside the cubic cells of the 8-cube. The final truncations are best expressed relative to the 8-orthoplex.
Truncated 8-cube
    
| Truncated 8-cube | |
|---|---|
| Type | uniform 8-polytope | 
| Schläfli symbol | t{4,3,3,3,3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams |                | 
| 6-faces | |
| 5-faces | |
| 4-faces | |
| Cells | |
| Faces | |
| Edges | |
| Vertices | |
| Vertex figure | ( )v{3,3,3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter groups | B8, [3,3,3,3,3,3,4] | 
| Properties | convex | 
Alternate names
    
- Truncated octeract (acronym tocto) (Jonathan Bowers)[1]
Coordinates
    
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a truncated 8-cube, centered at the origin, are all 224 vertices are sign (4) and coordinate (56) permutations of
- (±2,±2,±2,±2,±2,±2,±1,0)
Images
    
| B8 | B7 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  | ||||
| [16] | [14] | ||||
| B6 | B5 | ||||
|  |  | ||||
| [12] | [10] | ||||
| B4 | B3 | B2 | |||
|  |  |  | |||
| [8] | [6] | [4] | |||
| A7 | A5 | A3 | |||
|  |  |  | |||
| [8] | [6] | [4] | |||
Related polytopes
    
The truncated 8-cube, is seventh in a sequence of truncated hypercubes:
| Image |  |   |   |   |   |   |   | ... | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Octagon | Truncated cube | Truncated tesseract | Truncated 5-cube | Truncated 6-cube | Truncated 7-cube | Truncated 8-cube | |
| Coxeter diagram |    |      |        |          |            |              |                | |
| Vertex figure | ( )v( ) |  ( )v{ } |  ( )v{3} |  ( )v{3,3} | ( )v{3,3,3} | ( )v{3,3,3,3} | ( )v{3,3,3,3,3} | 
Bitruncated 8-cube
    
| Bitruncated 8-cube | |
|---|---|
| Type | uniform 8-polytope | 
| Schläfli symbol | 2t{4,3,3,3,3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams |                | 
| 6-faces | |
| 5-faces | |
| 4-faces | |
| Cells | |
| Faces | |
| Edges | |
| Vertices | |
| Vertex figure | { }v{3,3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter groups | B8, [3,3,3,3,3,3,4] | 
| Properties | convex | 
Alternate names
    
- Bitruncated octeract (acronym bato) (Jonathan Bowers)[2]
Coordinates
    
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a truncated 8-cube, centered at the origin, are all the sign coordinate permutations of
- (±2,±2,±2,±2,±2,±1,0,0)
Images
    
| B8 | B7 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  | ||||
| [16] | [14] | ||||
| B6 | B5 | ||||
|  |  | ||||
| [12] | [10] | ||||
| B4 | B3 | B2 | |||
|  |  |  | |||
| [8] | [6] | [4] | |||
| A7 | A5 | A3 | |||
|  |  |  | |||
| [8] | [6] | [4] | |||
Related polytopes
    
The bitruncated 8-cube is sixth in a sequence of bitruncated hypercubes:
| Image |   |   |   |   |   |   | ... | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Bitruncated cube | Bitruncated tesseract | Bitruncated 5-cube | Bitruncated 6-cube | Bitruncated 7-cube | Bitruncated 8-cube | |
| Coxeter |      |        |          |            |              |                | |
| Vertex figure |  ( )v{ } |  { }v{ } |  { }v{3} |  { }v{3,3} | { }v{3,3,3} | { }v{3,3,3,3} | 
Tritruncated 8-cube
    
| Tritruncated 8-cube | |
|---|---|
| Type | uniform 8-polytope | 
| Schläfli symbol | 3t{4,3,3,3,3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams |                | 
| 6-faces | |
| 5-faces | |
| 4-faces | |
| Cells | |
| Faces | |
| Edges | |
| Vertices | |
| Vertex figure | {4}v{3,3,3} | 
| Coxeter groups | B8, [3,3,3,3,3,3,4] | 
| Properties | convex | 
Alternate names
    
- Tritruncated octeract (acronym tato) (Jonathan Bowers)[3]
Coordinates
    
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a truncated 8-cube, centered at the origin, are all the sign coordinate permutations of
- (±2,±2,±2,±2,±1,0,0,0)
Images
    
| B8 | B7 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  | ||||
| [16] | [14] | ||||
| B6 | B5 | ||||
|  |  | ||||
| [12] | [10] | ||||
| B4 | B3 | B2 | |||
|  |  |  | |||
| [8] | [6] | [4] | |||
| A7 | A5 | A3 | |||
|  |  |  | |||
| [8] | [6] | [4] | |||
Quadritruncated 8-cube
    
| Quadritruncated 8-cube | |
|---|---|
| Type | uniform 8-polytope | 
| Schläfli symbol | 4t{3,3,3,3,3,3,4} | 
| Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams |                
 | 
| 6-faces | |
| 5-faces | |
| 4-faces | |
| Cells | |
| Faces | |
| Edges | |
| Vertices | |
| Vertex figure | {3,4}v{3,3} | 
| Coxeter groups | B8, [3,3,3,3,3,3,4] D8, [35,1,1] | 
| Properties | convex | 
Alternate names
    
- Quadritruncated octeract (acronym oke) (Jonathan Bowers)[4]
Coordinates
    
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a bitruncated 8-orthoplex, centered at the origin, are all sign and coordinate permutations of
- (±2,±2,±2,±2,±1,0,0,0)
Images
    
| B8 | B7 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  | ||||
| [16] | [14] | ||||
| B6 | B5 | ||||
|  |  | ||||
| [12] | [10] | ||||
| B4 | B3 | B2 | |||
|  |  |  | |||
| [8] | [6] | [4] | |||
| A7 | A5 | A3 | |||
|  |  |  | |||
| [8] | [6] | [4] | |||
Related polytopes
    
| Dim. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | n | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | t{4} | r{4,3} | 2t{4,3,3} | 2r{4,3,3,3} | 3t{4,3,3,3,3} | 3r{4,3,3,3,3,3} | 4t{4,3,3,3,3,3,3} | ... | 
| Coxeter diagram |   |    |    |      |      |        |        | |
| Images |  |   |   |   |   |   |   | |
| Facets | {3}  {4}  | t{3,3}  t{3,4}  | r{3,3,3}  r{3,3,4}  | 2t{3,3,3,3}  2t{3,3,3,4}  | 2r{3,3,3,3,3}  2r{3,3,3,3,4}  | 3t{3,3,3,3,3,3}  3t{3,3,3,3,3,4}  | ||
| Vertex figure | ( )v( ) |  { }×{ } |  { }v{ } |  {3}×{4} |  {3}v{4} | {3,3}×{3,4} | {3,3}v{3,4} | 
Notes
    
- Klitizing, (o3o3o3o3o3o3x4x – tocto)
- Klitizing, (o3o3o3o3o3x3x4o – bato)
- Klitizing, (o3o3o3o3x3x3o4o – tato)
- Klitizing, (o3o3o3x3x3o3o4o – oke)
References
    
- H.S.M. Coxeter: 
- H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd Edition, Dover New York, 1973
- Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6 
- (Paper 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I, [Math. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380–407, MR 2,10]
- (Paper 23) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II, [Math. Zeit. 188 (1985) 559–591]
- (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3–45]
 
 
- Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
- N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D.
 
- Klitzing, Richard. "8D uniform polytopes (polyzetta)". o3o3o3o3o3o3x4x – tocto, o3o3o3o3o3x3x4o – bato, o3o3o3o3x3x3o4o – tato, o3o3o3x3x3o3o4o – oke