|
| 3D Net of Truncated Tesseract (19-Tat) |
The truncated tesseract is number 19 in the list of uniform polychora in
Stella4D,
with the abbreviated name "tat". It has 24 cells:
8 truncated cubes (orange) and
16 tetrahedra (red). This model represents an
unfolded net for the 4D polytope, that is, the cells have been unfolded from 4D
back to a "flat" 3D model. This kind of models can help us to understand how
these polytopes fit together.
See this tutorial for some comments on
obtaining nets for building paper models of 4D polytopes.
|
Here is what the model would look like folded up, if we had a fourth
dimension in which to fold it. Four orange cells have been hidden to
reveal internal detail. Can you see how it would fold up?
|
|