Talk:600-cell
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All scientific discovery begins by asking a question, and often the most naive questions turn out to be the most illuminating, and lead to original discoveries. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 15:39, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
Hopf spherical coordinates
editThis section introduces the Hopf coordinates and gives the rationale for using them to describe 4-polytopes, and some references, but no further use is made of this kind of coordinates elsewhere in the article. The section gives the Hopf coordinates for the polytopes, explaining that these are the coordinates of the whole 600-point 120-cell, but the specific Hopf coordinates of the 120-point 600-cell that is the subject of this article are not identified. Elsewhere throughout the article some use is made of Cartesian coordinates, but Hopf coordinates are not given, and currently they are never mentioned again. Please improve this article by using Hopf coordinates to illustrate features of the 600-cell. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 16:20, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
Kinematics of the cuboctahedron
editConsider the cuboctahedron transformation cycle as a motion in 4 dimensions, as Coxeter did (see citation after "helical contraction"). The pyritohedral symmetry transformation is said to be the only 3D transformation which is neither a reflection nor a rotation. Could it be a 4D Boole Stott expansion, e.g. of the faces of the 24 octahedra of the 24-cell into cuboctahedra or icosahedra in the 600-cell? The expanding octahedron vertices move along helical paths in a Möbius loop, as do vertices of a 4-polytope under isoclinic rotation. Are those expanding octahedron vertex paths related to rotation isoclines, and if so, of which discrete isoclinic rotation, characteristic of which 4-polytope? Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 06:33, 22 October 2024 (UTC) Is every Boole Stott expansion characterizable as an isoclinic rotation? Is there an equivalence between the general operations of dimensional analogy and the isoclinic rotations with their Hopf fibrations? Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 19:49, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
This semantic subtyping relation is useful for characterizing the relations among polytopes and other invariant objects (such as their rotations), in particular the containment relationships among their properties. It is only one possible subtyping relation, and undecidable in general, but it is strong enough to constrain the behaviors (semantics) and knowability (encapsulation) of the related objects. Dc.samizdat (discuss • contribs) 19:00, 25 October 2024 (UTC)