6-cubic honeycomb

The 6-cubic honeycomb or hexeractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 6-space.

6-cubic honeycomb
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TypeRegular 6-honeycomb
Uniform 6-honeycomb
FamilyHypercube honeycomb
Schläfli symbol{4,34,4}
{4,33,31,1}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams















6-face type{4,34}
5-face type{4,33}
4-face type{4,3,3}
Cell type{4,3}
Face type{4}
Face figure{4,3}
(octahedron)
Edge figure8 {4,3,3}
(16-cell)
Vertex figure64 {4,34}
(6-orthoplex)
Coxeter group, [4,34,4]
, [4,33,31,1]
Dualself-dual
Propertiesvertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive, cell-transitive

It is analogous to the square tiling of the plane and to the cubic honeycomb of 3-space.

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