In geometry, a hemi-icosahedron is an abstract regular polyhedron, containing half the faces of a regular icosahedron. It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tessellation of the real projective plane by 10 triangles), which can be visualized by constructing the projective plane as a hemisphere where opposite points along the boundary are connected and dividing the hemisphere into three equal parts.
Geometry
It has 10 triangular faces, 15 edges, and 6 vertices.
It is also related to the nonconvex uniform polyhedron, the tetrahemihexahedron, which could be topologically identical to the hemi-icosahedron if each of the 3 square faces were divided into two triangles.
Graphs It can be represented symmetrically on faces, and vertices as Schlegel diagrams: Face-centered
The complete graph K6 It has the same vertices and edges as the 5-dimensional 5-simplex which has a complete graph of edges, but only contains half of the (20) faces.
From the point of view of graph theory this is an embedding of (the complete graph with 6 vertices) on a real projective plane. With this embedding, the dual graph is the Petersen graph --- see hemi-dodecahedron.
See also 11-cell - an abstract regular 4-polytope constructed from 11 hemi-icosahedra. hemi-dodecahedron hemi-cube hemi-octahedron
References
External links The hemi-icosahedron