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Etymologically, "cuboid" means "like a cube", in the sense of a convex solid which can be transformed into a cube (by adjusting the lengths of its edges and the angles between its adjacent faces). A cuboid is a convex polyhedron whose polyhedral graph is the same as that of a cube. [1] [2] General cuboids have many different types.
For example, in a polyhedron (3-dimensional polytope), a face is a facet, an edge is a ridge, and a vertex is a peak. Vertex figure : not itself an element of a polytope, but a diagram showing how the elements meet.
The superquadrics include many shapes that resemble cubes, octahedra, cylinders, lozenges and spindles, with rounded or sharp corners. [1] Because of their flexibility and relative simplicity, they are popular geometric modeling tools, especially in computer graphics .
The parallelepiped with D 4h symmetry is known as a square cuboid, which has two square faces and four congruent rectangular faces. The parallelepiped with D 3d symmetry is known as a trigonal trapezohedron , which has six congruent rhombic faces (also called an isohedral rhombohedron ).
A solid figure is the region of 3D space bounded by a two-dimensional closed surface; for example, a solid ball consists of a sphere and its interior. Solid geometry deals with the measurements of volumes of various solids, including pyramids , prisms (and other polyhedrons ), cubes , cylinders , cones (and truncated cones ).
A cube with unit side length is the canonical unit of volume in three-dimensional space, relative to which other solid objects are measured. The cube can be represented in many ways, one of which is the graph known as the cubical graph. It can be constructed by using the Cartesian product of graphs. The cube was discovered in antiquity.
In the case of the body cuboid, the body (space) diagonal g is irrational. For the edge cuboid, one of the edges a, b, c is irrational. The face cuboid has one of the face diagonals d, e, f irrational. The body cuboid is commonly referred to as the Euler cuboid in honor of Leonhard Euler, who discussed this type of cuboid. [15]
A four-dimensional orthotope is likely a hypercuboid. [7]The special case of an n-dimensional orthotope where all edges have equal length is the n-cube or hypercube. [2]By analogy, the term "hyperrectangle" can refer to Cartesian products of orthogonal intervals of other kinds, such as ranges of keys in database theory or ranges of integers, rather than real numbers.