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exact dihedral angle (radians) dihedral angle – exact in bold, else approximate (degrees) Platonic solids (regular convex) Tetrahedron {3,3} (3.3.3) arccos ( 1 / 3 ) 70.529° Hexahedron or Cube {4,3} (4.4.4) arccos (0) = π / 2 90° Octahedron {3,4} (3.3.3.3) arccos (- 1 / 3 ) 109.471° Dodecahedron {5,3} (5.5.5) arccos ...
An angle of 0° means the face normal vectors are antiparallel and the faces overlap each other, which implies that it is part of a degenerate polyhedron. An angle of 180° means the faces are parallel, as in a tiling. An angle greater than 180° exists on concave portions of a polyhedron. Every dihedral angle in an edge-transitive polyhedron ...
This fact can be used to calculate the dihedral angles themselves for a regular or edge-symmetric ideal polyhedron (in which all these angles are equal), by counting how many edges meet at each vertex: an ideal regular tetrahedron, cube or dodecahedron, with three edges per vertex, has dihedral angles = / = (), an ideal regular octahedron or ...
The dihedral angle of a triangular cupola between square-to-triangle is approximately 125°, that between square-to-hexagon is 54.7°, and that between triangle-to-hexagon is 70.5°. Therefore, the dihedral angle of a cuboctahedron between square-to-triangle, on the edge where the base of two triangular cupolas are attached is 54.7° + 70.5 ...
The dihedral angle of a truncated icosahedron between adjacent hexagonal faces is approximately 138.18°, and that between pentagon-to-hexagon is approximately 142.6°. [ 4 ] The truncated icosahedron is an Archimedean solid , meaning it is a highly symmetric and semi-regular polyhedron, and two or more different regular polygonal faces meet in ...
In fact, all the duals of the uniform polyhedra have a single dihedral angle. This is a consequence of the fact that their duals (the uniform polyhedra) have all regular faces. (Thanks to Rckrone for explaining it to me at WP:RD/MATH.) Even the two pseudo-uniform polyhedra work. Double sharp 04:42, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
An "improper" dihedral angle is a similar geometric analysis of four atoms, but typically involves a central atom with three others attached to it rather than the standard arrangement of all four of them bonded sequentially each to the next. One of the vectors is the bond from the central atom to one of its attachments.
Similarly, if a polyhedron is cut along an edge, the corresponding angle is cut into two. Cutting a polyhedron typically also introduces new edges and angles; their contributions must cancel out. The angles introduced when a cut passes through a face add to π {\displaystyle \pi } , and the angles introduced around an edge interior to the ...