Tetrahedron-octahedron honeycombTypeCompact uniform honeycombSemiregular honeycombSchläfli symbol{(3,4,3,3)} or {(3,3,4,3)}Coxeter diagram or or Cells{3,3} {3,4} Facestriangular {3}Vertex figurerhombicuboctahedronCoxeter group[(4,3,3,3)]PropertiesVertex-transitive, edge-transitive In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the tetrahedron-octahedron honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from octahedron and tetrahedron cells, in a rhombicuboctahedron vertex figure.
It represents a semiregular honeycomb as defined by all regular cells, although from the Wythoff construction, rectified tetrahedral r{3,3}, becomes the regular octahedron {3,4}.
Images + Wide-angle perspective viewCentered on octahedron
See also Convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space List of regular polytopes Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb - similar Euclidean honeycomb, Tetrahedral-cubic honeycomb
References Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. . (Tables I and II: Regular polytopes and honeycombs, pp. 294–296) Coxeter, The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999 (Chapter 10: Regular honeycombs in hyperbolic space, Summary tables II, III, IV, V, p212-213) Jeffrey R. Weeks The Shape of Space, 2nd edition (Chapter 16-17: Geometries on Three-manifolds I, II) Norman Johnson Uniform Polytopes, Manuscript N.W. Johnson: The Theory of Uniform Polytopes and Honeycombs, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1966 N.W. Johnson: Geometries and Transformations, (2015) Chapter 13: Hyperbolic Coxeter groups