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Metabiaugmented hexagonal prism

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26

Vertex configuration
  
4(4.6) 2(3) 2x4(3.4.6)

Vertices
  
14

Symmetry group
  
C2v

Metabiaugmented hexagonal prism

Type
  
Johnson J55 - J56 - J57

Faces
  
2x2+4 triangles 2+2 squares 2 hexagons

In geometry, the metabiaugmented hexagonal prism is one of the Johnson solids (J56). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by doubly augmenting a hexagonal prism by attaching square pyramids (J1) to two of its nonadjacent, nonparallel equatorial faces. Attaching the pyramids to opposite equatorial faces yields a parabiaugmented hexagonal prism. (The solid obtained by attaching pyramids to adjacent equatorial faces is not convex, and thus not a Johnson solid.)

A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, they are not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms or antiprisms). They were named by Norman Johnson, who first listed these polyhedra in 1966.

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Metabiaugmented hexagonal prism Wikipedia