regular tetrahedron in a sentence
Examples
- These two tetrahedra's vertices combined are the vertices of a cube, demonstrating that the regular tetrahedron is the 3-demicube.
- The regular tetrahedron is self-dual, which means that its compound figure comprising two such dual tetrahedra form a stellated octahedron or stella octangula.
- Suppose I am a budding mathematician and I have come to suspect that there is some kind of commonality between the cube and the regular tetrahedron.
- The Pyraminx is a puzzle in the shape of a regular tetrahedron, divided into 4 axial pieces, 6 edge pieces, and 4 trivial tips.
- The 4-simplex and pyramid-over-cube you're talking about are joins of a regular tetrahedron or cube with a single point.
- If you inscribe a regular tetrahedron in a sphere and then circumscribe another regular tetrahedron about the sphere, what's the ratio of their volumes?
- If you inscribe a regular tetrahedron in a sphere and then circumscribe another regular tetrahedron about the sphere, what's the ratio of their volumes?
- The closest and farthest cells are projected to inscribed tetrahedra within the cube, corresponding with the two possible ways to inscribe a regular tetrahedron in a cube.
- The vertices of a cube can be grouped into two groups of four, each forming a regular tetrahedron; more generally this is referred to as a demicube.
- You can see the tetrahedral slices of the hypercube similarly-the red vertices can be joined together to make a regular tetrahedron, and the purple vertices likewise.