Heptagonal bipyramid

The heptagonal bipyramid is one of the infinite set of bipyramids, dual to the infinite prisms. If an heptagonal bipyramid is to be face-transitive, all faces must be isosceles triangles.The resulting solid has 14 triangular faces, 9 vertices and 21 edges.[1][2]

Heptagonal bipyramid
Typebipyramid
Faces14 triangles
Edges21
Vertices9
Schläfli symbol{ } + {7}
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry groupD7h, [7,2], (*227), order 28
Rotation groupD7, [7,2]+, (227), order 14
Dual polyhedronheptagonal prism
Face configurationV4.4.7
Propertiesconvex, face-transitive
Family of bipyramids
Polyhedron
Coxeter
Tiling
Config. V2.4.4 V3.4.4 V4.4.4 V5.4.4 V6.4.4 V7.4.4 V8.4.4 V9.4.4 V10.4.4

References

  1. Heptagonal Dipyramid dmccooey.com [2014-6-23]
  2. Pugh, Anthony (1976), Polyhedra: A Visual Approach, University of California Press, pp. 21, 27, 62, ISBN 9780520030565.
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