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In geometry, a Wythoff construction, named after mathematician Willem Abraham Wythoff, is a method for constructing a uniform polyhedron or plane tiling. It is often referred to as Wythoff's kaleidoscopic construction. == Construction process == It is based on the idea of tiling a sphere, with spherical triangles – see Schwarz triangles. This construction arranges three mirrors at the sides of a triangle, like in a kaleidoscope. However, different from a kaleidoscope, the mirrors are not parallel, but intersect at a single point. They therefore enclose a spherical triangle on the surface of any sphere centered on that point and repeated reflections produce a multitude of copies of the triangle. If the angles of the spherical triangle are chosen appropriately, the triangles will tile the sphere, one or more times. If one places a vertex at a suitable point inside the spherical triangle enclosed by the mirrors, it is possible to ensure that the reflections of that point produce a uniform polyhedron. For a spherical triangle ''ABC'' we have four possibilities which will produce a uniform polyhedron: # A vertex is placed at the point ''A''. This produces a polyhedron with Wythoff symbol ''a''|''b'' ''c'', where ''a'' equals π divided by the angle of the triangle at ''A'', and similarly for ''b'' and ''c''. # A vertex is placed at a point on line ''AB'' so that it bisects the angle at ''C''. This produces a polyhedron with Wythoff symbol ''a'' ''b''|''c''. # A vertex is placed so that it is on the incentre of ''ABC''. This produces a polyhedron with Wythoff symbol ''a'' ''b'' ''c''|. # The vertex is at a point such that, when it is rotated around any of the triangle's corners by twice the angle at that point, it is displaced by the same distance for every angle. Only even-numbered reflections of the original vertex are used. The polyhedron has the Wythoff symbol |''a'' ''b'' ''c''. The process in general also applies for higher-dimensional regular polytopes, including the 4-dimensional uniform 4-polytopes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wythoff construction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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