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A triangular prism has 6 vertices, 9 edges, and 5 faces. Every prism has 2 congruent faces known as its bases, and the bases of a triangular prism are triangles. The triangle has 3 vertices, each of which pairs with another triangle's vertex, making up another 3 edges. These edges form 3 parallelograms as other faces. [2]
Its (n + 1)-polytope prism will have 2F i + F i−1 i-face elements. (With F −1 = 0, F n = 1.) By dimension: Take a polygon with n vertices, n edges. Its prism has 2n vertices, 3n edges, and 2 + n faces. Take a polyhedron with V vertices, E edges, and F faces. Its prism has 2V vertices, 2E + V edges, 2F + E faces, and 2 + F cells.
The convex forms are listed in order of degree of vertex configurations from 3 faces/vertex and up, and in increasing sides per face. This ordering allows topological similarities to be shown.
For example, triaugmented triangular prism is a composite polyhedron since it can be constructed by attaching three equilateral square pyramids onto the square faces of a triangular prism; the square pyramids and the triangular prism are elementary. [25] A canonical polyhedron
A non-convex deltahedron is a deltahedron that does not possess convexity, thus it has either coplanar faces or collinear edges. There are infinitely many non-convex deltahedra. [9] Some examples are stella octangula, the third stellation of a regular icosahedron, and Boerdijk–Coxeter helix. [10] There are subclasses of non-convex deltahedra.
The same shape is also called the tetrakis triangular prism, [1] tricapped trigonal prism, [2] tetracaidecadeltahedron, [3] [4] or tetrakaidecadeltahedron; [1] these last names mean a polyhedron with 14 triangular faces. It is an example of a deltahedron, composite polyhedron, and Johnson solid.
The symmetry of a p-gonal antiprismatic prism is [2p,2 +,2], order 8p. A p-gonal antiprismatic prism or p-gonal antiduoprism has 2 p-gonal antiprism, 2 p-gonal prism, and 2p triangular prism cells. It has 4p equilateral triangle, 4p square and 4 regular p-gon faces. It has 10p edges, and 4p vertices.
In his 1619 book Harmonices Mundi, Johannes Kepler observed the existence of the infinite family of antiprisms. [1] This has conventionally been thought of as the first discovery of these shapes, but they may have been known earlier: an unsigned printing block for the net of a hexagonal antiprism has been attributed to Hieronymus Andreae, who died in 1556.