Cyclotruncated 8-simplex honeycomb

In eight-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the cyclotruncated 8-simplex honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). The tessellation fills space by 8-simplex, truncated 8-simplex, bitruncated 8-simplex, tritruncated 8-simplex, and quadritruncated 8-simplex facets. These facet types occur in proportions of 2:2:2:2:1 respectively in the whole honeycomb.

It can be constructed by nine sets of parallel hyperplanes that divide space. The hyperplane intersections generate cyclotruncated 7-simplex honeycomb divisions on each hyperplane.

This honeycomb is one of 45 unique uniform honeycombs constructed by the ${\displaystyle {\tilde {A}}_{8}}$Coxeter group. The symmetry can be multiplied by the ring symmetry of the Coxeter diagrams:

Regular and uniform honeycombs in 8-space:

• 8-cubic honeycomb
• 8-demicubic honeycomb
• 8-simplex honeycomb
• Omnitruncated 8-simplex honeycomb
• 5₂₁ honeycomb
• 2₅₁ honeycomb
• 1₅₂ honeycomb

• Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript (1991)
• Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995,ISBN 978-0-471-01003-6 [1]
  • (Paper 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I, [Math. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380-407, MR 2,10] (1.9 Uniform space-fillings)
  • (Paper 24) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes III, [Math. Zeit. 200 (1988) 3-45]