Wikiversity enwikiversity https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.47.0-wmf.11 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikiversity Wikiversity talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk School School talk Portal Portal talk Topic Topic talk Collection Collection talk Draft Draft talk TimedText TimedText talk Module Module talk Event Event talk Portal:Photography 102 32023 2818305 2799810 2026-07-14T13:40:49Z Jessephu 3079828 /* Learning projects and resources */ 2818305 wikitext text/x-wiki __NOTOC__ <big>{{center top}}'''Welcome to the Department of Photography!'''{{center bottom}}</big> This is a [[Wikiversity:Content development|content development project]] where participants create, organize and develop [[learning resource]]s about photography. This topic page is for organizing the development of '''Photography''' content on [[Wikiversity]]. If you are knowledgeable in any photographic area, [[Help:Be bold|feel free to improve]] upon what you see, we would greatly appreciate your contributions. ==Learning projects and resources== {{Col list|3| * [[Photography]] * [[Photographic Composition|Composition]] * [[Film photography]] * [[Photography|Digital photography]] * [[Digital Asset Management (DAM)]] * [[Metadata]] * [[Digital workflows in photography|Digital Workflow]] * [[Digital Darkroom]] * [[Photography stream]] * [[Topic:Photojournalism|Photojournalism]] * [[Concert photography]] * [[Portrait Photography]] * [[Museum photography]] * [[Legal issues in photography]] * [[Photoproject]] - Participants upload their photographs and discuss them. }} ==Wikimedia== [[Image:STS-95_Florida_From_Space.jpg|400px|right|thumb]] * [[w: Photography]] == Related news == * March 2007 - [http://www.pr-inside.com/entrepreneurial-mum-launches-2-million-r72145.htm Million dollar photography contest...] ==See also== * [http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns100=1&ns102=1&ns104=1&search=Photography&fulltext=Advanced+search Search for Photography at Wikiversity] [[Image:Chicago Downtown Aerial View.jpg|left|thumb|240px]] [[Category:Art]] [[Category:Photography]] ngjwi3z5vz1r8skfszibr1eam5a0rcz Understanding Arithmetic Circuits 0 139384 2818306 2818231 2026-07-14T13:46:49Z Young1lim 21186 /* Adder */ 2818306 wikitext text/x-wiki == Adder == * Binary Adder Architecture Exploration ( [[Media:Adder.20131113.pdf|pdf]] ) {| class="wikitable" |- ! Adder type !! Overview !! Analysis !! VHDL Level Design !! CMOS Level Design |- | '''1. Ripple Carry Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1A.RCA.20250522.pdf|A]]|| || [[Media:Adder.rca.20140313.pdf|pdf]] || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1D.RCA.CMOS.20211108.pdf|pdf]] |- | '''2. Carry Lookahead Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.2A.CLA.20260714.pdf|A]], [[Media:VLSI.Arith.2B.CLA.20260714.pdf|B]] || || [[Media:Adder.cla.20140313.pdf|pdf]]|| |- | '''3. Carry Save Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.A.CSave.20151209.pdf|A]]|| || || |- || '''4. Carry Select Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.A.CSelA.20191002.pdf|A]]|| || || |- || '''5. Carry Skip Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.5A.CSkip.20250405.pdf|A]]|| || || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.5D.CSkip.CMOS.20211108.pdf|pdf]] |- || '''6. Carry Chain Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.6A.CCA.20211109.pdf|A]]|| || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.6C.CCA.VHDL.20211109.pdf|pdf]], [[Media:Adder.cca.20140313.pdf|pdf]] || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.6D.CCA.CMOS.20211109.pdf|pdf]] |- || '''7. Kogge-Stone Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.A.KSA.20140315.pdf|A]]|| || [[Media:Adder.ksa.20140409.pdf|pdf]]|| |- || '''8. Prefix Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.A.PFA.20140314.pdf|A]]|| || || |- || '''9.1 Variable Block Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1A.VBA.20221110.pdf|A]], [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1B.VBA.20230911.pdf|B]], [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1C.VBA.20240622.pdf|C]], [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1C.VBA.20250218.pdf|D]]|| || || |- || '''9.2 Multi-Level Variable Block Adder''' || [[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.A.VBA-Multi.20221031.pdf|A]]|| || || |} </br> === Adder Architectures Suitable for FPGA === * FPGA Carry-Chain Adder ([[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.A.FPGA-CCA.20210421.pdf|pdf]]) * FPGA Carry Select Adder ([[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.B.FPGA-CarrySelect.20210522.pdf|pdf]]) * FPGA Variable Block Adder ([[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.C.FPGA-VariableBlock.20220125.pdf|pdf]]) * FPGA Carry Lookahead Adder ([[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.D.FPGA-CLookahead.20210304.pdf|pdf]]) * Carry-Skip Adder </br> == Barrel Shifter == * Barrel Shifter Architecture Exploration ([[Media:Bshift.20131105.pdf|bshfit.vhdl]], [[Media:Bshift.makefile.20131109.pdf|bshfit.makefile]]) </br> '''Mux Based Barrel Shifter''' * Analysis ([[Media:Arith.BShfiter.20151207.pdf|pdf]]) * Implementation </br> == Multiplier == === Array Multipliers === * Analysis ([[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.A.Mult.20151209.pdf|pdf]]) </br> === Tree Mulltipliers === * Lattice Multiplication ([[Media:VLSI.Arith.LatticeMult.20170204.pdf|pdf]]) * Wallace Tree ([[Media:VLSI.Arith.WallaceTree.20170204.pdf|pdf]]) * Dadda Tree ([[Media:VLSI.Arith.DaddaTree.20170701.pdf|pdf]]) </br> === Booth Multipliers === * [[Media:RNS4.BoothEncode.20161005.pdf|Booth Encoding Note]] * Booth Multiplier Note ([[Media:BoothMult.20160929.pdf|H1.pdf]]) </br> == Divider == * Binary Divider ([[Media:VLSI.Arith.1.A.Divider.20131217.pdf|pdf]])</br> </br> </br> go to [ [[Electrical_%26_Computer_Engineering_Studies]] ] [[Category:Digital Circuit Design]] [[Category:FPGA]] pjte403byj5j58c1h55fyaxqzev469x Wikiversity:Newsletters/Tech News 4 162205 2818338 2818246 2026-07-15T02:01:11Z Codename Noreste 2969951 /* Tech News: 2026-08 */ archive to [[Wikiversity:Newsletters/Tech News/2026#Tech News: 2026-08]] ([[mw:c:Special:MyLanguage/User:JWBTH/CD|CD]]) 2818338 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Archive box|[[/2014/]] · [[/2015/]] · [[/2016/]] · [[/2017/]] · [[/2018/]] · [[/2019/]] · [[/2020/]] · [[/2021/]] · [[/2022/]] · [[/2023/]] · [[/2024/]] · [[/2025/]]}} __TOC__ {{Clear}} == Tech News: 2026-09 == <section begin="technews-2026-W09"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/09|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/Reference Check|Reference Check]] has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web. [https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/reports/editing/reference_check_ab_test_report_final_2025.html] '''Updates for editors''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:InterwikiSorting|InterwikiSorting extension]], which allowed for the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Interwiki sorting order|sorting of interwiki links]], has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253764] * Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387175][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409112] * [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Experience|The Reader Experience team]] is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:skin-theme-description</code> and <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag</code> to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta. * The improved [[mw:Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Activity_Tab|Activity tab]] which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, a bug that prevented [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:DiscussionTools|DiscussionTools]] from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415303] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * The [[m:Special:GlobalWatchlist|Global Watchlist]] lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist|extension]] that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a [[mw:Extension:GlobalWatchlist#hook|new hook]], <code dir=ltr>ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild</code>, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275159] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.17|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/09|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W09"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 19:03, 23 February 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30119102 --> == Tech News: 2026-10 == <section begin="technews-2026-W10"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/10|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * Wikipedia 25 [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikipedia 25/Easter egg experiments|Birthday mode]] is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikipedia 25/Easter egg experiments/article configuration|~2,500 articles]], waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikipedia 25/Easter egg experiments#Community Configuration Demo|community configuration]] on the local wiki. '''Updates for editors''' * [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/WMDE Technical Wishes/Sub-referencing|Sub-referencing]], a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and [[:phab:T418209|a couple of other wikis]]. You can [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/WMDE Technical Wishes/Sub-referencing#test|try the feature]] on these projects or on testwiki and [https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/wiki/Sub-referencing betawiki]. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/WMDE Technical Wishes/Sub-referencing/Learnings|published in a report]]. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are [[:m:Talk:WMDE Technical Wishes/Sub-referencing#Pilot wikis|interested in becoming a pilot wiki]]. * [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit check#Paste check|Paste Check]] will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/Tags|tags]] all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via [[{{#special:EditChecks}}]]. [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Edit check/Paste Check#A/B Experiment|Research]] across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can [https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&group=ext-visualeditor-ve-mw-editcheck&filter=&optional=1&action=translate help to localize] this and related features. * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Experience|Reader Experience team]] will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413912] * Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T410807] * Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383948] * The [[m:Special:GlobalWatchlist|Global Watchlist]] which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist|extension]] now allows activating the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Language#Fallback languages|language fallback system]] for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no <code dir=ltr>uselang=</code> URL parameter is provided. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373686][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416111] * The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Information Retrieval/Phase 1|hybrid search]] on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. * For security reasons, members of certain user groups are [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Mandatory two-factor authentication for users with some extended rights|required to have two-factor authentication]] (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will [[phab:T418580|gradually change in March]]. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418580] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in [https://www.wikibase.cloud/ Wikibase.cloud] has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416807] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * To help ensure [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki Product Insights/Responsible Reuse|fair use of infrastructure]], over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits|Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits]]. * The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415696] * The new Parsoid parser [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid/Parser Unification/Updates|continues to be deployed to additional wikis]], improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views. * The process and criteria for [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Enterprise#Access|requesting exceptional access]] to the high volume feed of the ''Wikimedia Enterprise'' APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases), [[m:Talk:Wikimedia Enterprise#Exceptional access criteria|have now been published]]. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users. * [https://techblog.wikimedia.org/ Tech Blog], the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community [https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2026/02/24/a-tech-blog-diff/ will be migrating] to [[diffblog:|Diff]], the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at https://diff.wikimedia.org/techblog. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.18|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/10|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W10"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 17:51, 2 March 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30137798 --> == Tech News: 2026-11 == <section begin="technews-2026-W11"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/11|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server switch|All wikis will be read-only]] for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1774450800 15:00 UTC]. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, [[wikitech:Deployments/Yearly calendar|which happen twice a year]]. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies. * Last week, all wikis had 2 hours of read-only time, and extended unavailability for user-scripts and gadgets. This was due to a security incident which has since been resolved. Work is ongoing to prevent re-occurrences. For current information please see the [[m:Steward's noticeboard#Statement on Meta about today's user script security incident|post on the Stewards' noticeboard]] ([[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation/Product and Technology/Product Safety and Integrity/March 2026 User Script Incident|translations]]). '''Updates for editors''' * Users facing multiple blocks on mobile will now see the reasons for each block separately, instead of a generic message. This helps them understand why they are blocked and what steps they can take to resolve the issue. For example, users affected for using common VPNs (such as [[Special:MyLanguage/Apple iCloud Private Relay|iCloud Private Relay]]) will receive clearer guidance on what they need to do to start editing again. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357118] * Later this week, [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Suggestion Mode|Suggestion Mode]] will become available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines. The feature is locally configurable, and can also be locally expanded with custom Suggestions. Current settings can be seen at [[Special:EditChecks]] and there are [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Suggestion mode#For administrators %E2%80%93 local customization|instructions for how administrators can customize]] the links to point to local guidelines. The feature is connected to [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit check|Edit check]] which suggests improvements while someone is writing new content. In the future, the Editing team plans to evaluate the feature's impact with newcomers through a controlled experiment. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404600] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418793] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * API rate limiting update: To help ensure [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki Product Insights/Responsible Reuse|fair use of infrastructure]], global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits|Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits]]. * The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and [[d:Wikidata:Wikibase GraphQL#Feedback and development|give feedback]]. You can also [https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/GraphQLAPI/apply sign up for usability tests]. * The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Product and Technology Advisory Council/Unsupported Tools Working Group|PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group]] continued improvements to [[commons:Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Video2commons#|Video2Commons]] in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads. Read [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Product and Technology Advisory Council/Unsupported Tools Working Group#February 2026|this update]] to learn more. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.19|MediaWiki]] '''In depth''' * The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance/Pilot wikis and collaborators#Collaborators|pilot wikis]] and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmLeVWnxmsCbPoI_UF2jyRcn73WRGWCVPHzerXb4Cz97X_Ag/viewform English], [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6rzr4XXQw8r4024fE3geTPFe13M_6w7Mitj-YJi0sOlWTAw/viewform?usp=header Arabic], [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdok3-RfB18lcugYTUMGkpwmqG_8p760Wv4dCXitOXOszjUDw/viewform?usp=header Bengali], [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjTfYp4jEo0akA4B1e-Nfg3QZPCudUjhJzHzzDi6AHyAaMGA/viewform?usp=header Japanese], [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScteVoI29Aue4xc72dekk-6RYtvmMgQxzMI900UOawrFrSTWg/viewform?usp=header Portuguese], [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetdxnYwL3ub2vqA7awCg5hJZPMIYcDPaiTe12rY9h0GYnVlw/viewform?usp=header Persian], and [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNvfJF-Ot-4pzA4qAN771_0QDJ4Li19YcUsaTgSKW8Nc7U_Q/viewform?usp=header Turkish]. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance|on the project page]]. '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/11|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W11"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 18:53, 9 March 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30213008 --> == Tech News: 2026-12 == <section begin="technews-2026-W12"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/12|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror|{{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}}]] beta feature, also known as [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror|CodeMirror 6]], has been used for wikitext syntax highlighting since November 2024. It will be promoted out of beta by May 2026 in order to bring improvements and new [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror#Features|features]] to all editors who use the standard syntax highlighter. If you have any questions or concerns about promoting the feature out of beta, [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help talk:Extension:CodeMirror|please share]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059] * Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6055] * On wikis using [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Flagged Revisions|Flagged Revisions]], the number of pending changes shown on [[{{#Special:PendingChanges}}]] previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413016] * Wikifunctions composition language has been rewritten, resulting in a new version of the language. This change aims to increase service stability by reducing the orchestrator's memory consumption. This rewrite also enables substantial latency reduction, code simplification, and better abstractions, which will open the door to later feature additions. Read more about [[f:Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status updates/2026-03-11|the changes]]. * Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403775] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:28}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:28|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419263] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * A new special page, [[{{#special:LintTemplateErrors}}]], has been created to list transcluded pages that are flagged as containing lint errors to help users discover them easily. The list is sorted by the number of transclusions with errors. For example: [[{{#special:LintTemplateErrors}}/night-mode-unaware-background-color]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170874] * Users of the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror|{{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}}]] beta feature have been using [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror|CodeMirror]] instead of [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeEditor|CodeEditor]] for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages, for some time now. Along with promoting CodeMirror 6 out of beta, the plan is to replace CodeEditor as the standard editor for these content models by May 2026. [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help talk:Extension:CodeMirror|Feedback or concerns are welcome]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332] * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror|CodeMirror]] JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the <code dir=ltr>ext.CodeMirror</code> or <code dir=ltr>ext.CodeMirror.lib</code> modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the <code dir=ltr>ext.CodeMirror.switch</code> hook was also deprecated in March 2025. Contributors can now make their scripts or gadgets compatible with CodeMirror 6. See the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror#Gadgets and user scripts|migration guide]] for more information. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373720] * The MediaWiki Interfaces team is expanding coverage of REST API module definitions to include [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/API:REST API/Extensions|extension APIs]]. REST API modules are groups of related endpoints that can be independently managed and versioned. Modules now exist for [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414470 GrowthExperiments] and [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419053 Wikifunctions] APIs. As we migrate extension APIs to this structure, documentation will move out of the main MediaWiki OpenAPI spec and REST Sandbox view, and will instead be accessible via module-specific options in the dropdown on the [https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RestSandbox REST Sandbox] (i.e., [[{{#Special:RestSandbox}}]], available on all wiki projects). * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto|Scribunto]] extension provides different pieces of information about the wiki where the module is being used via the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual|mw.site]] library. Starting last week, the library also provides a [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual#mw.site.wikiId|way]] of accessing the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Wiki ID|wiki ID]] that can be used to facilitate cross-wiki module maintenance. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146616] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.20|MediaWiki]] '''In depth''' * The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Coolest Tool Award|2026 Coolest Tool Award]] celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the [https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/435684?lang=en nomination survey] form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the [[foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Coolest_Tool_Award_2026_Survey_Privacy_Statement|survey privacy statement]]. '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/12|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W12"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 19:35, 16 March 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30260505 --> == Tech News: 2026-13 == <section begin="technews-2026-W13"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/13|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional [[phab:T417120|"Log in with passkey" button]] will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The [[c:File:Passwordless_login_screencast.webm|screen recording]] demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step. * [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server switch|All wikis will be read-only]] for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1774450800 15:00 UTC]. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, [[wikitech:Deployments/Yearly calendar|which happen twice a year]]. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies. '''Updates for editors''' * Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a [[toolforge:echo-chamber|new Toolforge tool]]. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383948] * Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to Special:PersonalDashboard. This is an [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Moderator Tools/Dashboard|early version of an experience]] that introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402647] * The [[Special:Block]] now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at: [[MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401823] * Mobile editors [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Contributors/Account Creation Experiments#Logged-out|at several wikis]] can now see an improved logged-out edit warning, thanks to the recent updates from the Growth team. These changes released last week are part of ongoing efforts and tests to enhance [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Contributors/Account Creation Experiments|account creation experience on mobile]] and then increase participation. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408484] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:36}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:36|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the bug that prevented mobile web users from seeing the block information when affected by multiple blocks has been fixed. They can now see messages of all the blocks currently affecting them when they access Wikipedia. '''Updates for technical contributors''' * Images built using Toolforge will soon get the upgraded buildpacks version, bringing support for newer language versions and other upstream improvements and fixes. If you use Toolforge Build Service, review the recent [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/cloud-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EMYTA32EV2V5SQ2JIEOD2CL66YFIZEKV/ cloud-announce email] and update your build configuration as necessary to ensure your tools are compatible. [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Toolforge/Building_container_images&oldid=2392097#Buildpack_environment_upgrade_process][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380127] * The [https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page API Portal] documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to [[mw:Wikimedia APIs|mediawiki.org]]. Learn more on the [[wikitech:API Portal/Deprecation|project page]]. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.21|MediaWiki]] '''In depth''' * [[m:Special:MyLanguage/WMDE Technical Wishes|WMDE Technical Wishes]] is considering improvements to [[m:WMDE Technical Wishes/References/VisualEditor automatic reference names|automatically generated reference names in VisualEditor]]. Please check out the [[m:WMDE Technical Wishes/References/VisualEditor automatic reference names#Proposed solutions|proposed solutions]] and participate in the [[m:Talk:WMDE Technical Wishes/References/VisualEditor automatic reference names#Request for comment|request for comment]]. '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/13|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W13"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 16:51, 23 March 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:UOzurumba (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30268305 --> == Tech News: 2026-14 == <section begin="technews-2026-W14"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/14|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * The Beta version of [[abstract:|Abstract Wikipedia]] a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. [[:f:Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status updates/2026-03-26|Read more]]. '''Updates for editors''' * The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Contributors/Account Creation Experiments#2. Improve logged-out warning message (T415160)|Read more]]. * The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Apps/Team/Future of Editing on the Mobile Apps|how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps]]. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:45}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:45|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive [https://www.newspapers.com Newspapers.com] was no longer working, due to a block in [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Citoid|Citoid]] requests, has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419903] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.22|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/14|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W14"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 19:25, 30 March 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30329462 --> == Tech News: 2026-15 == <section begin="technews-2026-W15"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/15|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents|CampaignEvents extension]] now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents/Registration/Collaborative contributions#Goal setting|the documentation]]. * [[File:Maki-gift-15.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item]] The new [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Watchlist labels|watchlist labels]] feature (announced in [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/07|Tech News 2026-07]]) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via [[Special:EditWatchlist|EditWatchlist]]. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419171] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/WMDE Technical Wishes/Sub-referencing|sub-referencing feature]], which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to [[phab:T414094|more wikis]] later this year. Wikis using the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Reference Tooltips|Reference Tooltips]] gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at [[m:MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js|MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js]] as shown [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1344408362 here]) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416304] * All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. [[m:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard#Board of Trustees Approves Closure of Wikinews|Read more]]. * The [[:mw:Special:MyLanguage/API:Action API|Action API]] has had several formats for requested output. One of them, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>format=php</nowiki></code></bdi>, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/API:Data formats#Output|JSON format]]. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118538] * The [[Special:NamespaceInfo|Special:NamespaceInfo]] page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381455] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.23|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/15|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W15"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 16:19, 6 April 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30362761 --> == Tech News: 2026-16 == <section begin="technews-2026-W16"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/16|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * Experienced editors are invited to [https://b24e11a4f1.catalyst.wmcloud.org/wiki/Main_Page test] the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance|Article guidance]] feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance/Test feature guide|available]]. Also, after reviewing [https://b24e11a4f1.catalyst.wmcloud.org/wiki/Category:Pages_using_article_guidance the outlines], please provide feedback on the [[mw:Talk:Article guidance|project talk page]]. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out [[c:File:Article Guidance workflow demo - April 2026.webm|the video]] explaining the feature. '''Updates for editors''' * On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use [[Special:ChangeContentModel|Special:ChangeContentModel]] page to [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:ChangeContentModel|create new pages with custom content models]], such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check [[Special:ListGroupRights|Special:ListGroupRights]] for the status of your wiki. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248294] * The Growth team has launched an [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Contributors/Account_Creation_Experiments|account creation experiment]] to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382856] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * Starting later this week, {{int:group-abusefilter}} who have the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror|{{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}}]] beta feature enabled will have [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror|CodeMirror]] instead of [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeEditor|CodeEditor]] as the editor at [[Special:AbuseFilter|Special:AbuseFilter]]. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399673][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332] * Tools and bots that access the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Notifications/API|Notifications API]] (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>action=query&meta=notifications</nowiki></code></bdi>) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421991] * Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia). [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T422544] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.24|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/16|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W16"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 15:19, 13 April 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30380527 --> == Tech News: 2026-17 == <section begin="technews-2026-W17"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/17|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * After two years of development, [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror|{{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}}]], also known as [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror|CodeMirror 6]], is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror|benefits]] to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Bhsd/ Bhsd] who developed many of the new features, including [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror#Code folding|code folding]], [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror#Autocompletion|autocompletion]], and [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror#Linting|linting]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059] * A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238 Download the latest version] and explore the update. '''Updates for editors''' * [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Experience/WE3.3.4 Reading lists|Reading lists]] is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias. * An experiment which explores extending [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Growth/Mobile page previews|Page Previews to mobile web]] will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/List of experiments in Product and Technology#Template|Read more about this experiment and others]]. * On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Email confirmation|confirmed their email addresses]] can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Product Safety and Integrity/Account Security#Encouraging users to confirm their email addresses|Learn more]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421366] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:15}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:15|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184857] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * As part of the promotion of [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror|CodeMirror]] from a beta feature, all users will use [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror|CodeMirror]] instead of [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeEditor|CodeEditor]] for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332] * The <code>mirrors.wikimedia.org</code> service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/LJYRIS4WB66HIRCAO4GIDTXCMDVZRBMA/ You can read more]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416707] * The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>image</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>oldimage</nowiki></code></bdi> table will be removed from [[wikitech:Help:Wiki Replicas|wikireplicas]]. If your tools or queries access <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>image</nowiki></code></bdi> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>oldimage</nowiki></code></bdi> directly, please update them to use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>file</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>filerevision</nowiki></code></bdi> table before 28 May. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28741] * Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki Product Insights/Responsible Reuse|fair use of infrastructure]] by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits|Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits]] and [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits/FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]]. * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Attribution API|Attribution API]] is now available as a [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia APIs/Stability policy|beta]]. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?api=attribution.v0-beta&title=Special%3ARestSandbox REST sandbox on English Wikipedia]). Share your feedback on the [[mw:Talk:Attribution API|project talk page]]. * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/17|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W17"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 15:00, 20 April 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30432763 --> == Tech News: 2026-18 == <section begin="technews-2026-W18"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/18|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the [[{{int:grouppage-autoconfirmed/{{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}}}|{{int:group-autoconfirmed}}]] group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418484] * All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Experience/WE3.3.4 Reading lists|reading lists]] beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423676] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure [[mw:MediaWiki Product Insights/Responsible Reuse|fair use of infrastructure]]. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see [[mw:Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits|Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits]] and [[mw:Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits/FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]]. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.26|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/18|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W18"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 18:06, 27 April 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:UOzurumba (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30458046 --> == Tech News: 2026-19 == <section begin="technews-2026-W19"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/19|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance|Article guidance]] team invites experienced editors of [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance/Pilot wikis and collaborators|pilot Wikipedias]]—Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Simple English, Spanish, and French—to help translate and adapt [https://b24e11a4f1.catalyst.wmcloud.org/wiki/Category:Pages_using_article_guidance sample outlines]. These outlines will guide editors in creating clear, well-structured, and policy-compliant articles when using [https://b24e11a4f1.catalyst.wmcloud.org/wiki/Special:NewArticle the feature] once it is launched in May 2026. [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance#Adapting a sample outline in a Wikipedia|Simple instructions]] on how to translate and adapt the outlines are available. '''Updates for editors''' * The [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/Product and Technology Advisory Council|Product and Technology Advisory Council]] has published [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/Product and Technology Advisory Council/May 2026 draft PTAC recommendation for feedback|draft recommendations]] on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th [[:m:Talk:Product and Technology Advisory Council/May 2026 draft PTAC recommendation for feedback|on the talk page]]. * The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424909] * From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Global reminder bot|Global reminder bot]] in that the latter reminds users a week ''before'' the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in [[m:Special:Translate|Special:Translate]] would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358864] * The [[m:Special:GlobalWatchlist|Global Watchlist]], which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as [[:d:|Wikidata]] now support [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:EntitySchema|EntitySchema]] elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits|global API rate limits]] for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415450][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424422][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418091] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * The second phase of [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits|global API rate limits]] has been rolled out to reduce the [[diffblog:2026/03/26/quo-vadis-crawlers-progress-and-whats-next-on-safeguarding-our-infrastructure/|impact of AI crawlers]] and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits#Limits|Limits]] have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.27|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/19|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W19"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 20:43, 4 May 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30498077 --> == Tech News: 2026-20 == <section begin="technews-2026-W20"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/20|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * Community Tech has published [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist/How to write a good wish|new guidance]] explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward. '''Updates for editors''' * The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Growth/Share_Card|Share Card feature]] that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks. * The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/25th_Birthday_Reading_Challenge|25-day reading challenge]] into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:17}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:17|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425286] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * [[File:Octicons-tools.svg|12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item]] The ResourceLoader module <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mediawiki.ui.input</nowiki></code></bdi>, deprecated since [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/39|September 2023]], will be removed this week. There is a [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Codex/Migrating_from_MediaWiki_UI|guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex]] for any tools that use it. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420125] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.47/wmf.2|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/20|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W20"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 19:20, 11 May 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30524429 --> == Tech News: 2026-21 == <section begin="technews-2026-W21"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/21|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. The feedback period will be open until May 22. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, [[m:Talk:Abstract Wikipedia|let us know on Meta]]. '''Updates for editors''' * An experiment to show [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Experience/Reading lists|Reading Lists]] to logged-out readers on mobile web will launch on May 18 across German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias, and will run for one month. The effort supports broader goals of helping readers save and organize articles for later reading, while encouraging habits that could lead to future Wikipedia contributions. * To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T426008] * [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Suggestion Mode|Suggestion Mode]] was released as an [[w:en:A/B test|A/B test]] for newcomer editors on the mobile website at [[phab:T421189|~15 Wikipedias]]. The experiment will measure the impact that Suggestion Mode has on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. The experiment will also evaluate the feature's impact on editor retention, and monitor changes in revert and block rates. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, an issue in the Wikipedia Android app where images could sometimes fail to load after opening a recommended reading list notification, has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418231] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata Platform|Wikidata Platform team]] has published its [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update/Backend Replacement|backend replacement recommendation]] and accompanying [[wikitech:Wikidata Query Service/WDQS Architecture re-design|technical architecture]] for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on [[d:Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update/High-Impact Use Cases|this page]]. Feedback can be shared on the [[d:Wikidata talk:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update|Migration talk page]] or during the [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Blazegraph Migration Office Hours|next office hour]]. See the [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Wikidata Platform team/Newsletter|WDP team newsletter]] for more details. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.47/wmf.3|MediaWiki]] '''In depth''' * On English, French, Japanese, and a few other Wikipedias, there was a [[diffblog:2025/09/02/better-detecting-bots-and-replacing-our-captcha/|trial of hCaptcha]], a third-party bot detection service. The trial showed that hCaptcha effectively detects and deters some bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving [[w:en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 225#Introducing SuggestedInvestigations|checkusers and stewards]] signals to look into. Because the results were positive, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis over the next few weeks. [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Product Safety and Integrity/Anti-abuse signals/hCaptcha|See the hCaptcha project page]] for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections. [[diffblog:2026/05/04/better-detecting-bots-and-replacing-our-captcha-part-2/|Learn more]]. * The latest Community Tech update is now available, with progress across several Community Wishlist initiatives, including Reading Lists expansion from the mobile app to the website, new language support for "Who Wrote That" and the Personal Dashboard, improvements to 3D rendering and Charts, and upcoming work on talk page sorting, audio playback, and editing workflows. The update also shares current priorities, wishlist status trends, and opportunities for community feedback on future focus areas and the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026–2027 Annual Plan. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist/Updates#May 13, 2026: Latest updates from the Community Tech team|Read the full newsletter for details]]. '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/21|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W21"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 20:21, 18 May 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30539262 --> == Tech News: 2026-22 == <section begin="technews-2026-W22"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/22|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * Following a [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Contributors/Account Creation Experiments#LOWM|successful account creation experiment]], an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424595] '''Updates for editors''' * For security reasons, members of certain user groups are [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Mandatory two-factor authentication for users with some extended rights|required to have two-factor authentication]] (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423119][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423120] * [[m:Special:MyLanguage/WMDE Technical Wishes|WMDE Technical Wishes]] will run an [[w:en:A/B testing|A/B test]] on [[:phab:T415904|10 wikis]], testing [[m:WMDE Technical Wishes/References/Reference Previews|potential improvements for Reference Previews]]. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis. * After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Growth/Image Browsing|Image Browsing]] beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to [[mw:Readers/Reader_Growth/Image_Browsing#Phase_2.1_beta_feature|exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely]]. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416723] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * The legacy CSS classes <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>tleft</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>tright</nowiki></code></bdi> have been replaced with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>floatleft</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>floatright</nowiki></code></bdi> as the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note that <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>floatleft</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>floatright</nowiki></code></bdi> may also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. [[phab:T426452|Read more]]. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.47/wmf.4|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/22|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W22"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 21:52, 25 May 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Quiddity (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30584502 --> == Tech News: 2026-23 == <section begin="technews-2026-W23"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/23|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Experience|Reader Experience team]] is conducting an experiment to show the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Experience/Reading lists|reading lists]] feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Experience/Reading lists#Experiment timeline|experiment]] was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month. * The Wikimedia Apps team released [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Apps/Team/Explore Feed Refresh/Phase 1|Phase 1]] of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:18}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:18|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on [[w:Special:Homepage|Special:Homepage]], leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424048] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.47/wmf.5|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/23|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W23"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 21:08, 1 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30613639 --> == Tech News: 2026-24 == <section begin="technews-2026-W24"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/24|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content. [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/enhanced-free-api] '''Updates for editors''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Explore Feed Refresh/Phase 1|refreshed Explore Feed]], now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: ''Community'' and ''For You''. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the ''For You'' tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app. * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Apps/Team/iOS/"Which came first?" Game|Which came first?]] daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Games#Game availability by language|read the instructions and requirements]]. * [[m:Special:MyLanguage/WMDE Technical Wishes/Sub-referencing|Sub-referencing]], a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most [[wikitech:Deployments/Train#Wednesday|Group 1 wikis]] and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for [https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&group=ext-cite&language=en&action_source=search&filter=%21translated&optional=1&action=translate untranslated Cite extension messages] in their language and reviewing any use of [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Reference Tooltips|Reference Tooltips]], which may require [[:phab:T416304#11668731|updates]] to support the new functionality. Wikis using [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Reference Previews|Reference Previews]] do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the ''cite-tracking-category-ref-details'' [[Special:TrackingCategories|tracking category]] as a hidden category using <code><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></code> (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item [[d:Q129764848]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425662] * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Growth/Mobile page previews#Experimentation|Page Previews experiment]] on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias. * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Codex/Design/Icons|user interface icon library]] will be [[phab:T399175|updated later this week or next week]]. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups. * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Language Selector|Universal Language Selector]] (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|beta features]] in your profile preferences and share your feedback on [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Language Selector/New ULS|the project page]]. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427171] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * The function signature for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page');</nowiki></code></bdi> use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });</nowiki></code></bdi>. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427945] * '''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist/Updates#May 20, 2026: Community Tech becomes a program|introduced changes]] meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist/Updates|engaging in discussions]] about a [[m:Talk:Community Wishlist#Proposed direction for Wishlist|proposed direction for the wishlist]] from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist/Updates|staffing updates]]. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.47/wmf.6|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/24|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W24"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 21:30, 8 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30650573 --> == Tech News: 2026-25 == <section begin="technews-2026-W25"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/25|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Growth|Reader Growth team]] has launched an [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader Growth/Image Browsing|Image Browsing]] beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use <code>class=notpageimage</code> excluding it from thumbnail previews, or <code>class=noviewer</code> excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word <code><nowiki>__NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__</nowiki></code>. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the [[mw:Talk:Readers/Reader Growth/Image Browsing|project page]]. * [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tables#class="wikitable"|Wikitables]] can now be [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Sortable tables#Forcing the initial sort direction|sorted in descending order]] on the first click by adding <code dir=ltr>data-sort-order="desc"</code> to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398416] '''Updates for editors''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance|Article guidance]] feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. [[w:simple:Special:NewArticle|This feature]] gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance/Test feature guide#Markups in outlines|this page]]. [[w:simple:Wikipedia:Article Guidance|Example outlines]] that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Article guidance#Adapting a sample outline in a Wikipedia|this section]] of the project page. * Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating [[MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account]] with the block duration they want. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427125] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:41}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:41|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. '''Updates for technical contributors''' * By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This [[phab:T400119|extends enforcement]] of the long standing [[foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Wikimedia Foundation User-Agent Policy|user-agent policy]]. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change. * The roll out of global [[mw:Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits|API rate limits]] is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited. * The [https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page API Portal wiki] will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to [[mw:Wikimedia APIs|Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org]]. Learn more on the [[wikitech:API Portal/Deprecation|project page]]. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.47/wmf.7|MediaWiki]] '''Meetings and events''' * On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Developer Satisfaction Survey/2026|Developer Satisfaction Survey]] that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call [https://discord.gg/wikipedia?event=1514727511102062664 via the Wikimedia Community Discord server]. * The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Conferencia Wikimedia de América Latina 2026|Latin American Wikimedia Conference]] will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4osJzTHBJjQbYJk7TMVEJjTEQv7IgtsUDfP-o-qTgeRQQxw/viewform apply for a scholarship] to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4). * Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit [[wmania:Special:MyLanguage/2026:Team challenges|the Team Challenges page]] and [https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/wm/teamchallenges/ register there]. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC. '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/25|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W25"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 16:48, 15 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:UOzurumba (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30689604 --> == Tech News: 2026-26 == <section begin="technews-2026-W26"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/26|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature summary|Growth features]] are [[phab:T418115|now available at Wikidata]]. This update enables access to Mentorship ([[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Mentorship|if configured]]), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration. '''Updates for editors''' * The special page [[{{#special:RangeCalculator}}]] has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268429] * [[m:Special:MyLanguage/WMDE Technical Wishes/Sub-referencing|Sub-referencing]] is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/WMDE Technical Wishes/Sub-referencing#deployment|FAQ]] lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the [[:phab:T414094|rollout plan]] for the next deployment steps. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428902] * Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100974] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. '''Updates for technical contributors''' * Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The <code>skipcaptcha</code> right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402595] * Reference documentation for the [[wikitech:Machine_Learning/LiftWing/API|Lift Wing API]] has moved from the API Portal to the interactive [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?api=lift-wing&title=Special%3ARestSandbox REST Sandbox]. * The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_APIs|Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org]]. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427537] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.47/wmf.8|MediaWiki]] '''Meetings and events''' * Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for [[mw:Google_Summer_of_Code/2026|Google Summer of Code]] and [[mw:Outreachy/Round_32|Outreachy]]. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to [[mw:event:Google_Summer_of_Code/Summer_2026_June_Internship_open_session|share ideas and connections in their community]]. '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/26|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W26"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 13:05, 23 June 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Trizek (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30722494 --> == Tech News: 2026-27 == <section begin="technews-2026-W27"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/27|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * As part of the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Contributors/Account Creation Experiments|Account Creation Experiments]], the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428220] * After a [[phab:T426248|successful experiment]], logged-in users who did not [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Email_confirmation|confirm their email address]] when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Product Safety and Integrity/Account Security|Account Security]] project. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428292] * An update to [[Special:Search|Search]] is refining how the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> without negation however remains unchanged. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427443] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:33}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:33|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329346] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the [[Foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Wikimedia Foundation User-Agent Policy|user-agent policy]]. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. 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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/28|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:34}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:34|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain. 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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/29|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Revise_Tone|Revise Tone]] helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was [[w:en:A/B_testing|A/B tested]] on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Revise_Tone#Experiment_Results|increased by 38.7%]] compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. 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'''Complex analysis''', which used to be known as '''function theory''' or '''theory of functions of a single complex variable''', is a sub-field of analysis that studies such functions (more specifically, '''holomorphic''' functions) on the complex plane, or part (domain) or extension (Riemann surface) thereof. It notably has great importance in number theory, e.g. the [[Riemann zeta function]] (for the distribution of primes) and other <math>L</math>-functions, modular forms, elliptic functions, etc. <blockquote>The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — [[wikipedia:Jacques_Hadamard|Jacques Hadamard]]</blockquote>In a certain sense, the essence of complex functions is captured by the principle of [[analytic continuation]].{{mathematics}} ==''' Complex Functions '''== * Complex Functions ([[Media:CAnal.1.A.CFunction.20140222.Basic.pdf|1.A.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.1.B.CFunction.20140111.Octave.pdf|1.B.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.1.C.CFunction.20140111.Extend.pdf|1.C.pdf]]) * Complex Exponential and Logarithm ([[Media:CAnal.5.A.CLog.20131017.pdf|5.A.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.5.A.Octave.pdf|5.B.pdf]]) * Complex Trigonometric and Hyperbolic ([[Media:CAnal.7.A.CTrigHyper..pdf|7.A.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.7.A.Octave..pdf|7.B.pdf]]) '''Complex Function Note''' : 1. Exp and Log Function Note ([[Media:ComplexExp.29160721.pdf|H1.pdf]]) : 2. Trig and TrigH Function Note ([[Media:CAnal.Trig-H.29160901.pdf|H1.pdf]]) : 3. Inverse Trig and TrigH Functions Note ([[Media:CAnal.Hyper.29160829.pdf|H1.pdf]]) ==''' Complex Integrals '''== * Complex Integrals ([[Media:CAnal.2.A.CIntegral.20140224.Basic.pdf|2.A.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.2.B.CIntegral.20140117.Octave.pdf|2.B.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.2.C.CIntegral.20140117.Extend.pdf|2.C.pdf]]) ==''' Complex Series '''== * Complex Series ([[Media:CPX.Series.20150226.2.Basic.pdf|3.A.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.3.B.CSeries.20140121.Octave.pdf|3.B.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.3.C.CSeries.20140303.Extend.pdf|3.C.pdf]]) ==''' Residue Integrals '''== * Residue Integrals ([[Media:CAnal.4.A.Residue.20140227.Basic.pdf|4.A.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.4.B.pdf|4.B.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.4.C.Residue.20140423.Extend.pdf|4.C.pdf]]) ==='''Residue Integrals Note'''=== * Laurent Series with the Residue Theorem Note ([[Media:Laurent.1.Residue.20170713.pdf|H1.pdf]]) * Laurent Series with Applications Note ([[Media:Laurent.2.Applications.20170327.pdf|H1.pdf]]) * Laurent Series and the z-Transform Note ([[Media:Laurent.3.z-Trans.20170831.pdf|H1.pdf]]) * Laurent Series as a Geometric Series Note ([[Media:Laurent.4.GSeries.20170802.pdf|H1.pdf]]) === Laurent Series and the z-Transform Example Note === * Overview ([[Media:Laurent.4.z-Example.20170926.pdf|H1.pdf]]) ====Geometric Series Examples==== * Causality ([[Media:Laurent.5.Causality.1.A.20191026n.pdf|A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.Causality.1.B.20191026.pdf|B.pdf]]) * Time Shift ([[Media:Laurent.5.TimeShift.2.A.20191028.pdf|A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.TimeShift.2.B.20191029.pdf|B.pdf]]) * Reciprocity ([[Media:Laurent.5.Reciprocity.3A.20191030.pdf|A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.Reciprocity.3B.20191031.pdf|B.pdf]]) * Combinations ([[Media:Laurent.5.Combination.4A.20200702.pdf|A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.Combination.4B.20201002.pdf|B.pdf]]) * Properties ([[Media:Laurent.5.Property.5A.20220105.pdf|A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.Property.5B.20220126.pdf|B.pdf]]) * Permutations ([[Media:Laurent.6.Permutation.6A.20230711.pdf|A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.Permutation.6B.20251225.pdf|B.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.Permutation.6C.20260714.pdf|C.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.Permutation.6C.20240528.pdf|D.pdf]]) * Applications ([[Media:Laurent.5.Application.6B.20220723.pdf|A.pdf]]) * Double Pole Case :- Examples ([[Media:Laurent.5.DPoleEx.7A.20220722.pdf|A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.DPoleEx.7B.20220720.pdf|B.pdf]]) :- Properties ([[Media:Laurent.5.DPoleProp.5A.20190226.pdf|A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.5.DPoleProp.5B.20190228.pdf|B.pdf]]) ====The Case Examples==== * Example Overview : ([[Media:Laurent.4.Example.0.A.20171208.pdf|0A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.6.CaseExample.0.B.20180205.pdf|0B.pdf]]) * Example Case 1 : ([[Media:Laurent.4.Example.1.A.20171107.pdf|1A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.4.Example.1.B.20171227.pdf|1B.pdf]]) * Example Case 2 : ([[Media:Laurent.4.Example.2.A.20171107.pdf|2A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.4.Example.2.B.20171227.pdf|2B.pdf]]) * Example Case 3 : ([[Media:Laurent.4.Example.3.A.20171017.pdf|3A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.4.Example.3.B.20171226.pdf|3B.pdf]]) * Example Case 4 : ([[Media:Laurent.4.Example.4.A.20171017.pdf|4A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.4.Example.4.B.20171228.pdf|4B.pdf]]) * Example Summary : ([[Media:Laurent.4.Example.5.A.20171212.pdf|5A.pdf]], [[Media:Laurent.4.Example.5.B.20171230.pdf|5B.pdf]]) ==''' Conformal Mapping '''== * Conformal Mapping ([[Media:CAnal.6.A.Conformal.20131224.pdf|6.A.pdf]], [[Media:CAnal.6.A.Octave..pdf|6.B.pdf]]) go to [ [[Electrical_%26_Computer_Engineering_Studies]] ] [[Category:Complex analysis]] bko97j8934kly8soke3azjrr2i12pv8 Talk:Universal Bibliography 1 171302 2818318 2818119 2026-07-14T14:44:43Z James500 297601 /* */ Add 2818318 wikitext text/x-wiki Obviously this bibliography requires considerable expansion. Due to the scope of this project, it is unlikely that I can complete the bibliography without assistance. I hope it will be forthcoming. [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 07:18, 1 February 2015 (UTC) ''Cf''. [[meta:WikiScholar]]. [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 08:23, 8 February 2015 (UTC) Terms that sometimes appear in the titles of bibliographies, guides to literature/reference, etc: Bibliography, catalogue, guide, list, index, in print, books, literature, sources, works, material, titles, reference. [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 13:54, 14 November 2020 (UTC) For future use: *Non-fiction, art, fine arts, music, painting, sculpture, government, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining, manufacturing, technology, computer science, engineering, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, botany, natural history, prehistory, classics, anthropology, library science, librarianship, information studies, places, exploration, transport, Earth science, paleontology, official publications, universities, museums *Reprography, lithography, engraving *Bookbinding, early printed books, incunabula, manuscripts, papyri, papyrology *Languages, philology, ancient languages, medieval languages, dead languages, extinct languages *Writing, scripts, decipherment, alphabets, hieratic, demotic, hieroglyphic, figurative, ideographic, pictographic, cuneiform, inscriptions, stelae [stela], clay tablets, ostraka [ostrakon], papyrus, Minoan scripts, Linear A, Linear B *Indo-European languages; Italo-Celtic; Celtic languages *Latin, Greek, middle english, old english, anglo-norman [anglo-french], old french, old norse, old welsh, middle welsh, egyptian, hittite, luwian, lycian, akkadian, assyro-babylonian, elamite, amorite *Special libraries, national libraries, public libraries, university libraries, college libraries, school libraries, museum libraries *Archaeological theory, methodology, geology, stratigraphy etc. Field archaeology, behavioural archaeology *Tide tables *George Watson (ed). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press. 1966. Volume 5. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ebM6AAAAIAAJ] *[[s:Page:Cornwall (Mitton).djvu/230|"Some Books on Cornwall"]] *[[s:Author:Richard Colt Hoare]] *Yorkshire literature *Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K38VcZrjrj0C&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false] (regional catalogues of incunabula in the public libraries of France) * [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 16:24, 24 November 2019 (UTC) For future use: *Palmer's Index to The Times **editions:2Faf22c-dSwC *Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies France: *Les Dictionnaires départementaux.  [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FZEwAQAAMAAJ] (series includes departmental biographical dictionaries) Creuse: *Guide des archives de la Creuse. 1972 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eEsCAAAAMAAJ] *Joanne. Géographie du département de la Creuse. 1895 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=izeVfoPbIc8C] *Jamain. Le département de la Creuse: ses origines et sa pérennité [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kY-KMwcsJMEC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Annuaire du Département de la Creuse [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7wpBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Journal du département de la Creuse (1807-1819) Bibliography: *[[w:Fredson Bowers|Bowers, Fredson]]. Principles of Bibliographical Description. Princeton University Press. 1949. Russell & Russell, New York. 1962. St Paul's Bibliographies (No 15). 1986. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hA7hAAAAMAAJ] Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA525#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Bowers, Fredson. Bibliography and Textual Criticism. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1964. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zOFhNcQsihAC] Series: *Studies in Bibliography. Formerly "Papers in Bibliography". (Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia). (1948 onwards) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HGEUAAAAIAAJ] Commentary: "A History of Studies in Bibliography: The First Fifty Volumes" in The First Fifty Years, p 125 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZukVAQAAIAAJ] **Tanselle. Selected Studies in Bibliography. (Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OnktAQAAIAAJ] Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA526#v=onepage&q&f=false] Library associations: *IFLA. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report. Saur. 1998. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YW8hAAAAQBAJ&pg=PP4#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Patrick Le Boeuf (ed). Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR): Hype or Cure-All? Haworth Press. 2005. Routledge. 2013 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ka7hAQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Guidelines for Bibliographic Description of Reproductions. American Library Association. 1995. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9zG6MGudKv8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false] Serials: *Serials Review Nostgia *Nostalgia cycles: [https://slate.com/culture/2012/04/the-golden-forty-year-rule-and-other-nostalgia-cycles-could-trends-possibly-return-every-40-years-20-years-and-12-15-years.html] [https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-the-20-year-trend-cycle-collapsed/] [https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1081115609/from-tumblrcore-to-2014core-the-nostalgia-loop-is-getting-smaller-and-faster] [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/20/lets-go-round-again-the-ridiculous-rise-of-fifth-anniversary-vinyl-reissues] [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/gen-z-fashion-trends-tumblr-aesthetic-b2042247.html] *Stuck in the Seventies: 113 Things from the 1970s that Screwed Up the Twentysomething Generation. 1991. 1995. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bZ03g5ylsaEC]. Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6V4cAQAAMAAJ]. *1969: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yuwjAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false]. *Decade nostalgia [https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rolling-back-the-years-qg8fs6sh06d] *[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=COhVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xf4rAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nFtWAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HqkfAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA27&article_id=4890,1282350#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_WZGAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bzpHAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s1MgAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false] *1970s: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YT5QAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false] *1990s Tamagotchi [https://www.channelnewsasia.com/today/visual-stories/tamagotchi-cassette-player-gen-z-millennials-retro-gadgets-photo-essay-pictures-4826346] (Singapore) [https://www.nssmag.com/en/lifestyle/38204/tamagotchi-y2k-nostalgia] *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g6k5 90s Nostalgia]. BBC. Other *[[w:Haruko Ichikawa|Haruko Ichikawa]] (市河晴子 or 市川晴子) (1896-1943) **Japanese Lady in Europe. 1937. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xi42AAAAMAAJ] (Japanese: 欧米の隅々) **Japanese Lady in America. First published 1938. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KQY7AQAAIAAJ] (Japanese: 米国の旅日本の旅) Search terms: *"press in japan" *"japanese press" *"press of japan" *"journalism of japan" *"journalism in japan" *"journalists in japan" *"japanese journalism" Generations *[https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17686668/millennials-explained Stop calling teenagers millennials]. Vox. 15 August 2018. Planet Earth *[[w:Encyclopedia of Earth|Encyclopedia of Earth]] Crime *The Concise Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminals [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uGTQAAAAIAAJ] Showa era *懐かしの昭和・平成流行事典: 2001-1945. [[w:ja:新人物往来社|Shin-Jinbutsuoraisha]]. 2002. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QCYyAQAAIAAJ] *少年ブーム~昭和レトロの流行もの. 串間努著. 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sK0nAQAAIAAJ] Shakespeare *Demmon (compiler). Catalogue of the Shakespearian Books and Pamphlets in the Joseph Crosby Library. 1885. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GSZLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]. *Shakespeare the Man and the Book. Part 2: Occasional Papers. 1881. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gfUUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false] [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 10:55, 26 October 2020 (UTC) gmlb3fe1mzik4h0x878qg1ptql0znha 2818322 2818318 2026-07-14T16:11:18Z James500 297601 /* */ Done 2818322 wikitext text/x-wiki Obviously this bibliography requires considerable expansion. Due to the scope of this project, it is unlikely that I can complete the bibliography without assistance. I hope it will be forthcoming. [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 07:18, 1 February 2015 (UTC) ''Cf''. [[meta:WikiScholar]]. [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 08:23, 8 February 2015 (UTC) Terms that sometimes appear in the titles of bibliographies, guides to literature/reference, etc: Bibliography, catalogue, guide, list, index, in print, books, literature, sources, works, material, titles, reference. [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 13:54, 14 November 2020 (UTC) For future use: *Non-fiction, art, fine arts, music, painting, sculpture, government, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining, manufacturing, technology, computer science, engineering, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, botany, natural history, prehistory, classics, anthropology, library science, librarianship, information studies, places, exploration, transport, Earth science, paleontology, official publications, universities, museums *Reprography, lithography, engraving *Bookbinding, early printed books, incunabula, manuscripts, papyri, papyrology *Languages, philology, ancient languages, medieval languages, dead languages, extinct languages *Writing, scripts, decipherment, alphabets, hieratic, demotic, hieroglyphic, figurative, ideographic, pictographic, cuneiform, inscriptions, stelae [stela], clay tablets, ostraka [ostrakon], papyrus, Minoan scripts, Linear A, Linear B *Indo-European languages; Italo-Celtic; Celtic languages *Latin, Greek, middle english, old english, anglo-norman [anglo-french], old french, old norse, old welsh, middle welsh, egyptian, hittite, luwian, lycian, akkadian, assyro-babylonian, elamite, amorite *Special libraries, national libraries, public libraries, university libraries, college libraries, school libraries, museum libraries *Archaeological theory, methodology, geology, stratigraphy etc. Field archaeology, behavioural archaeology *Tide tables *George Watson (ed). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press. 1966. Volume 5. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ebM6AAAAIAAJ] *[[s:Page:Cornwall (Mitton).djvu/230|"Some Books on Cornwall"]] *[[s:Author:Richard Colt Hoare]] *Yorkshire literature *Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K38VcZrjrj0C&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false] (regional catalogues of incunabula in the public libraries of France) * [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 16:24, 24 November 2019 (UTC) For future use: *Palmer's Index to The Times **editions:2Faf22c-dSwC *Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies France: *Les Dictionnaires départementaux.  [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FZEwAQAAMAAJ] (series includes departmental biographical dictionaries) Creuse: *Guide des archives de la Creuse. 1972 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eEsCAAAAMAAJ] *Joanne. Géographie du département de la Creuse. 1895 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=izeVfoPbIc8C] *Jamain. Le département de la Creuse: ses origines et sa pérennité [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kY-KMwcsJMEC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Annuaire du Département de la Creuse [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7wpBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Journal du département de la Creuse (1807-1819) Bibliography: *[[w:Fredson Bowers|Bowers, Fredson]]. Principles of Bibliographical Description. Princeton University Press. 1949. Russell & Russell, New York. 1962. St Paul's Bibliographies (No 15). 1986. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hA7hAAAAMAAJ] Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA525#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Bowers, Fredson. Bibliography and Textual Criticism. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1964. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zOFhNcQsihAC] Series: *Studies in Bibliography. Formerly "Papers in Bibliography". (Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia). (1948 onwards) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HGEUAAAAIAAJ] Commentary: "A History of Studies in Bibliography: The First Fifty Volumes" in The First Fifty Years, p 125 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZukVAQAAIAAJ] **Tanselle. Selected Studies in Bibliography. (Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OnktAQAAIAAJ] Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA526#v=onepage&q&f=false] Library associations: *IFLA. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report. Saur. 1998. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YW8hAAAAQBAJ&pg=PP4#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Patrick Le Boeuf (ed). Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR): Hype or Cure-All? Haworth Press. 2005. Routledge. 2013 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ka7hAQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Guidelines for Bibliographic Description of Reproductions. American Library Association. 1995. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9zG6MGudKv8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false] Serials: *Serials Review Nostgia *Nostalgia cycles: [https://slate.com/culture/2012/04/the-golden-forty-year-rule-and-other-nostalgia-cycles-could-trends-possibly-return-every-40-years-20-years-and-12-15-years.html] [https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-the-20-year-trend-cycle-collapsed/] [https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1081115609/from-tumblrcore-to-2014core-the-nostalgia-loop-is-getting-smaller-and-faster] [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/20/lets-go-round-again-the-ridiculous-rise-of-fifth-anniversary-vinyl-reissues] [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/gen-z-fashion-trends-tumblr-aesthetic-b2042247.html] *Stuck in the Seventies: 113 Things from the 1970s that Screwed Up the Twentysomething Generation. 1991. 1995. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bZ03g5ylsaEC]. Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6V4cAQAAMAAJ]. *1969: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yuwjAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false]. *Decade nostalgia [https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rolling-back-the-years-qg8fs6sh06d] *[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=COhVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xf4rAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nFtWAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HqkfAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA27&article_id=4890,1282350#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_WZGAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bzpHAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s1MgAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false] *1970s: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YT5QAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false] *1990s Tamagotchi [https://www.nssmag.com/en/lifestyle/38204/tamagotchi-y2k-nostalgia] *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g6k5 90s Nostalgia]. BBC. Other *[[w:Haruko Ichikawa|Haruko Ichikawa]] (市河晴子 or 市川晴子) (1896-1943) **Japanese Lady in Europe. 1937. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xi42AAAAMAAJ] (Japanese: 欧米の隅々) **Japanese Lady in America. First published 1938. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KQY7AQAAIAAJ] (Japanese: 米国の旅日本の旅) Search terms: *"press in japan" *"japanese press" *"press of japan" *"journalism of japan" *"journalism in japan" *"journalists in japan" *"japanese journalism" Generations *[https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17686668/millennials-explained Stop calling teenagers millennials]. Vox. 15 August 2018. Planet Earth *[[w:Encyclopedia of Earth|Encyclopedia of Earth]] Crime *The Concise Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminals [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uGTQAAAAIAAJ] Showa era *懐かしの昭和・平成流行事典: 2001-1945. [[w:ja:新人物往来社|Shin-Jinbutsuoraisha]]. 2002. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QCYyAQAAIAAJ] *少年ブーム~昭和レトロの流行もの. 串間努著. 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sK0nAQAAIAAJ] Shakespeare *Demmon (compiler). Catalogue of the Shakespearian Books and Pamphlets in the Joseph Crosby Library. 1885. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GSZLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]. *Shakespeare the Man and the Book. Part 2: Occasional Papers. 1881. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gfUUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false] [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 10:55, 26 October 2020 (UTC) 5atoxittk5ozt5l1zycw8f0d9upbrpy 2818323 2818322 2026-07-14T16:17:54Z James500 297601 /* */ Add 2818323 wikitext text/x-wiki Obviously this bibliography requires considerable expansion. Due to the scope of this project, it is unlikely that I can complete the bibliography without assistance. I hope it will be forthcoming. [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 07:18, 1 February 2015 (UTC) ''Cf''. [[meta:WikiScholar]]. [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 08:23, 8 February 2015 (UTC) Terms that sometimes appear in the titles of bibliographies, guides to literature/reference, etc: Bibliography, catalogue, guide, list, index, in print, books, literature, sources, works, material, titles, reference. [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 13:54, 14 November 2020 (UTC) For future use: *Non-fiction, art, fine arts, music, painting, sculpture, government, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining, manufacturing, technology, computer science, engineering, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, botany, natural history, prehistory, classics, anthropology, library science, librarianship, information studies, places, exploration, transport, Earth science, paleontology, official publications, universities, museums *Reprography, lithography, engraving *Bookbinding, early printed books, incunabula, manuscripts, papyri, papyrology *Languages, philology, ancient languages, medieval languages, dead languages, extinct languages *Writing, scripts, decipherment, alphabets, hieratic, demotic, hieroglyphic, figurative, ideographic, pictographic, cuneiform, inscriptions, stelae [stela], clay tablets, ostraka [ostrakon], papyrus, Minoan scripts, Linear A, Linear B *Indo-European languages; Italo-Celtic; Celtic languages *Latin, Greek, middle english, old english, anglo-norman [anglo-french], old french, old norse, old welsh, middle welsh, egyptian, hittite, luwian, lycian, akkadian, assyro-babylonian, elamite, amorite *Special libraries, national libraries, public libraries, university libraries, college libraries, school libraries, museum libraries *Archaeological theory, methodology, geology, stratigraphy etc. Field archaeology, behavioural archaeology *Tide tables *George Watson (ed). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press. 1966. Volume 5. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ebM6AAAAIAAJ] *[[s:Page:Cornwall (Mitton).djvu/230|"Some Books on Cornwall"]] *[[s:Author:Richard Colt Hoare]] *Yorkshire literature *Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K38VcZrjrj0C&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false] (regional catalogues of incunabula in the public libraries of France) * [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 16:24, 24 November 2019 (UTC) For future use: *Palmer's Index to The Times **editions:2Faf22c-dSwC *Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies France: *Les Dictionnaires départementaux.  [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FZEwAQAAMAAJ] (series includes departmental biographical dictionaries) Creuse: *Guide des archives de la Creuse. 1972 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eEsCAAAAMAAJ] *Joanne. Géographie du département de la Creuse. 1895 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=izeVfoPbIc8C] *Jamain. Le département de la Creuse: ses origines et sa pérennité [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kY-KMwcsJMEC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Annuaire du Département de la Creuse [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7wpBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Journal du département de la Creuse (1807-1819) Bibliography: *[[w:Fredson Bowers|Bowers, Fredson]]. Principles of Bibliographical Description. Princeton University Press. 1949. Russell & Russell, New York. 1962. St Paul's Bibliographies (No 15). 1986. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hA7hAAAAMAAJ] Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA525#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Bowers, Fredson. Bibliography and Textual Criticism. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1964. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zOFhNcQsihAC] Series: *Studies in Bibliography. Formerly "Papers in Bibliography". (Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia). (1948 onwards) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HGEUAAAAIAAJ] Commentary: "A History of Studies in Bibliography: The First Fifty Volumes" in The First Fifty Years, p 125 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZukVAQAAIAAJ] **Tanselle. Selected Studies in Bibliography. (Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OnktAQAAIAAJ] Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA526#v=onepage&q&f=false] Library associations: *IFLA. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report. Saur. 1998. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YW8hAAAAQBAJ&pg=PP4#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Patrick Le Boeuf (ed). Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR): Hype or Cure-All? Haworth Press. 2005. Routledge. 2013 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ka7hAQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Guidelines for Bibliographic Description of Reproductions. American Library Association. 1995. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9zG6MGudKv8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false] Serials: *Serials Review Nostgia *Nostalgia cycles: [https://slate.com/culture/2012/04/the-golden-forty-year-rule-and-other-nostalgia-cycles-could-trends-possibly-return-every-40-years-20-years-and-12-15-years.html] [https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-the-20-year-trend-cycle-collapsed/] [https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1081115609/from-tumblrcore-to-2014core-the-nostalgia-loop-is-getting-smaller-and-faster] [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/20/lets-go-round-again-the-ridiculous-rise-of-fifth-anniversary-vinyl-reissues] [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/gen-z-fashion-trends-tumblr-aesthetic-b2042247.html] *Stuck in the Seventies: 113 Things from the 1970s that Screwed Up the Twentysomething Generation. 1991. 1995. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bZ03g5ylsaEC]. Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6V4cAQAAMAAJ]. *1969: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yuwjAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false]. *Decade nostalgia [https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rolling-back-the-years-qg8fs6sh06d] *[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=COhVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xf4rAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nFtWAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HqkfAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA27&article_id=4890,1282350#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_WZGAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bzpHAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s1MgAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false] *1970s: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YT5QAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false] *1990s Tamagotchi [https://www.nssmag.com/en/lifestyle/38204/tamagotchi-y2k-nostalgia] *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g6k5 90s Nostalgia]. BBC. Other *[[w:Haruko Ichikawa|Haruko Ichikawa]] (市河晴子 or 市川晴子) (1896-1943) **Japanese Lady in Europe. 1937. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xi42AAAAMAAJ] (Japanese: 欧米の隅々) **Japanese Lady in America. First published 1938. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KQY7AQAAIAAJ] (Japanese: 米国の旅日本の旅) Search terms: *"press in japan" *"japanese press" *"press of japan" *"journalism of japan" *"journalism in japan" *"journalists in japan" *"japanese journalism" Generations *[https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17686668/millennials-explained Stop calling teenagers millennials]. Vox. 15 August 2018. Planet Earth *[[w:Encyclopedia of Earth|Encyclopedia of Earth]] Crime *The Concise Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminals [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uGTQAAAAIAAJ] Showa era *懐かしの昭和・平成流行事典: 2001-1945. [[w:ja:新人物往来社|Shin-Jinbutsuoraisha]]. 2002. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QCYyAQAAIAAJ] *少年ブーム~昭和レトロの流行もの. 串間努著. 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sK0nAQAAIAAJ] Shakespeare *Demmon (compiler). Catalogue of the Shakespearian Books and Pamphlets in the Joseph Crosby Library. 1885. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GSZLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]. *Shakespeare the Man and the Book. Part 2: Occasional Papers. 1881. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gfUUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false] *Best films: [https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-movies-of-all-time-us/] [[User:James500|James500]] ([[User talk:James500|discuss]] • [[Special:Contributions/James500|contribs]]) 10:55, 26 October 2020 (UTC) ib35q441gsbg80lt85ctfriy8q8qows Graphic Design/Glossary 0 207402 2818330 2816056 2026-07-14T19:11:55Z Jessephu 3079828 /* C */ 2818330 wikitext text/x-wiki =A= '''Alignment''' – The arrangement of elements in a design so they line up neatly. '''Aspect Ratio''' – The proportional relationship between an image's width and height (e.g., 16:9). =B= '''Bleed''' - The area outside the trim edge that ensures no unprinted edges appear. '''Brand Identity''' – Visual elements such as logos, colors, and typography that represent a brand. =C= '''CMYK''' - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black). CMYK is the standard colour mode used for printing. '''Cropping''' – Removing unwanted parts of an image. '''Composition''' - Arrangements and organization of visual elements. =D= '''DPI''' - Dots per Inch on a printed page. =E= =F= =G= '''Grid''' – A framework of lines used to organize content in a design. =H= '''Hierarchy''' - The arrangement of elements in a way that signifies importance. =I= =J= =K= '''Kerning -''' The spacing between individual characters in a word. =L= =M= '''Mockup -''' A realistic model of a design used for presentation or feedback. =N= '''Negative Space -''' The empty space around and between elements in a design. =O= =P= '''PPI''' - Pixels per Inch; number of pixels per inch in an image. '''PNG''' – An image format that supports transparent backgrounds. =Q= =R= '''Raster Image''' - an image made up of thousands of pixels. Also known as bitmap image. Photos are an example of a raster image. <ref>Creative Blog. (2015). 6 Key Terms Every Graphic Designer should know. Available: http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/key-terms-to-know-6133210</ref> '''RGB''' - Red, Green, Blue. RGB is the colour mode used for screen output. =S= =T= '''Typography -''' The art of arranging text to make it legible and visually appealing. '''Tracking''' – Adjusting the spacing across a group of letters. =U= =V= '''Vector Image''' - an image made up of points, as opposed to raster images which are made from pixels. Each point has a defined X and Y coordinates. Vector images can be resized without loss of quality. <ref>Creative Blog. (2015). 6 Key Terms Every Graphic Designer should know. Available: http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/key-terms-to-know-6133210</ref> =W= '''Wireframe -''' A basic layout of a design that outlines structure without detailed visuals. =X= =Y= =Z= =See Also= [http://www.superdream.co.uk/glossary-of-design-terms/ Superdream Glossary of Design Terms] =References= <div class="references-small"> <references/> </div> [[Category:Graphic design]] qac2uy6q809vteik2dfwwnzz7tt2ww0 Social Victorians/People/Abercorn 0 263978 2818327 2818259 2026-07-14T19:05:18Z Scogdill 1331941 2818327 wikitext text/x-wiki == Overview == The Dukedom of Abercorn is the last non-royal dukedom created. Queen Victoria created it in 1869. This page includes the Earl of Wicklow, the family of which married into the Abercorn family in 1816 when William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow married Lady Cecil Frances Hamilton — the daughter and only child of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2026-06-24|title=William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Howard,_4th_Earl_of_Wicklow&oldid=1360966619|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow was succeeded by his nephew, Charles Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow (5 November 1839 – 20 June 1881).<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2024-08-26|title=Charles Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Howard,_5th_Earl_of_Wicklow&oldid=1242455245|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> Also Ralph Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow married Lady Gladys Mary Hamilton (daughter of the 2nd Duke of Abercorn) in 1902.<ref name=":18">{{Cite journal|date=2025-08-05|title=Cecil Howard, 6th Earl of Wicklow|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Howard,_6th_Earl_of_Wicklow&oldid=1304372795|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> The National Library of Ireland has papers from Sarah Howard and her children, including Lady Caroline Howard. == Also Known As == *Family name: Hamilton *the Duke of Abercorn **James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn (10 August 1868 – 31 October 1885)<ref name=":0">"James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p10144.htm#i101433|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> **James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn (31 October 1885 – 3 January 1913)<ref name=":12">"James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p10104.htm#i101033|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> **James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (3 January 1913 – 12 September 1953)<ref name=":13">"James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p10104.htm#i101031|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-09}}</ref> *the Duchess of Abercorn **Louisa Russell Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn (10 August 1868 – 31 October 1885) **Maria Anna Curzon-Howe Hamilton (31 October 1885 – 3 January 1913) *Dowager Duchess of Hamilton **Louisa Russell Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn (31 October 1885 – March 1905) **Maria Anna Curzon-Howe Hamilton (3 January 1913 – ) *Subsidiary titles: **Marquess of Hamilton (courtesy title for the heir apparent) ***James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (31 October 1885 – 12 September 1953) **Viscount Strabane (courtesy title for the heir apparent of the Marquess of Hamilton) == Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies == === Friends === *The Royal Family, especially [[Social Victorians/People/Albert Edward, Prince of Wales | Albert Edward, Prince]] and [[Social Victorians/People/Alexandra, Princess of Wales | Alexandra, Princess]] of Wales, in the generation of the 2nd duke. == Timeline == A lot of people are treated on this page, so this timeline will be somewhat chaotic to read. These events probably didn't directly affect every single person treated on this page, but discussions about them probably circulated through the families. The detail about Lady Caroline Howard and her mother, the Hon. Susan Howard, is to make these people, whose papers are in the National Library of Ireland, more concrete and known. '''1832 October 25''', James Hamilton and Louisa Russell married at Gordon Castle, Fochabers, Morayshire, in Scotland.<ref name=":0" /> '''1854 May 23''', Beatrix Frances Hamilton and George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton married.<ref>"Lady Beatrix Frances Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1147.htm#i11470|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-09}}</ref> '''1855 April 10''', Harriet Georgiana Louisa Hamilton and Thomas George Anson married.<ref name=":2">"Lady Harriett Georgiana Louisa Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1034.htm#i10332|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> '''1858 October 26''', Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton and William Henry Edgcumbe married.<ref>"Lady Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1135.htm#i11344|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-09}}</ref> '''1859 November 22''', Louisa Jane Hamilton and William Montagu Douglass Scott married.<ref>"Lady Louisa Jane Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p10359.htm#i103583|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-09}}</ref> '''1868''', the title the Duke of Abercorn was created.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2020-07-06|title=James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Hamilton,_1st_Duke_of_Abercorn&oldid=966293304|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> '''1869 January 7''', James Hamilton (2nd Duke) and Maria Anna Curzon-Howe married at St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, in London.<ref name=":3">"Lady Mary Anna Curzon." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p10104.htm#i101034|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> '''1869 November 8''', there may have been a double wedding: Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton and George Charles Spencer-Churchill married<ref name=":8">"Lady Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p10595.htm#i105942|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-09}}</ref>, and Maud Evelyn Hamilton and Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice married.<ref name=":1">"Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1163.htm#i11629|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> '''1871 January''' '''4, Wednesday''', Lady Caroline Howard was invited to a [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1870s#4 January 1871, Wednesday|ball hosted by Major Goodman and the Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards]] (probably in Coventry?). '''1871 February 17, Friday''', Lady Caroline Howard attended a [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1870s#Birmingham Tennis Court Club Ball|ball hosted by the "bachelors of the Tennis Court Club" in Birmingham]]. '''1871 May 9, Tuesday''', Lady Caroline Howard, Lady Alice Howard and Lady Louisa Howard were [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1870s#9 May 1871, Tuesday, Queen's Drawing-Room|presented to Queen Victoria at a Drawing-room]] by their mother, the Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard. '''1871 May 25, Thursday''', Lady Caroline Howard attended a [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1870s#25 May 1871, Thursday, Dinner Party Hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Charltons|dinner party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Charlton, of Hesleyside]]. '''1871 August 31, Thursday''', The Freeman's Journal reported that "The Hon. Mrs. Howard, Lady Caroline Howard and suite have arrived at the Morrisson Hotel."<blockquote>The following are amongst the latest arrivals at the Morrisson Hotel: — Mrs. Percival Maxwell and the Misses Maxwell and suite, Mr and Mrs Herbert Read and suite, Rev H R Heywood, and Master H A Heywood, Mr F H Downing, Mr M Neil, Mr and Mrs Herbert and suite, Mr Abbott, Mr D'Arcy, Mr and Mrs G Woods and suite.<ref>"Fashion and Varieties." ''Freeman's Journal'' 31 August 1871, Thursday: 4 [of 4], Col. 1a [of 9]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18710831/012/0004. Same print title, n.p.</ref></blockquote>'''1871 November 28''', George Francis Hamilton and Maud Caroline Lascelles married.<ref name=":6">"Rt. Hon. Lord Sir George Francis Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1133.htm#i11323|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> '''1872 January 4, Thursday''', the Hon. Mrs. Howard and Lady Caroline Howard and their suites were reported to "have arrived at Morrisson's Hotel in Dublin.<ref>"Fashionable Miscellany." ''Dublin Evening Post'' 4 January 1872, Thursday: 3 [of 4], Col. 2c [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000435/18720104/021/0003. Same print title, n.p.</ref><ref>"Fashion and Varieties." ''Morning Mail'' (Dublin) 5 January 1872, Friday: 3 [of 4, digital], Col. 2c [of 10 on digital image]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0006103/18720105/067/0003. The digital image has the last 2 columns of the prior page on this page, so the citation should be to p. 2 [of 4], Col. 8c [of 8].</ref> Also at the Morrisson's Hotel at this time was Sir Roland Blennerhassett, Bart., M.P.<ref>"Fashion and Varieties." ''Dublin Evening'' Mail 5 January 1872, Friday: 3 [of 4], Col. 8b [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000433/18720105/028/0003. Same print and digital title, print n.p.</ref> '''1872 February 28, Wednesday''', the Howards are back at Morrisson's Hotel:<blockquote>Lady Caroline Howard, Lady Louisa Howard, and the Hon Mrs Howard and suite, Shelton Abbey, have arrived at Morrrisson's Hotel.<ref>"Fashionable." ''Dublin Evening Telegraph'' 28 February 1872, Wednesday: 4 [of 4], Col. 7b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002093/18720228/051/0004. Print title: ''The Evening Telegraph'', n.p.</ref></blockquote>'''1872 March 2, Saturday''', the ''Weekly Freeman and Irish Agriculturalist'' reported that "Lady Caroline Howard, Lady Louisa Howard, and the Hon Mrs Howard and suite, Shelton Abbey, have arrived at Morrisson's Hotel." Two 1-sentence paragraphs later, the paper reported that the same group had "left Morrisson's Hotel for Shelton Abbey."<ref>"Fashion and Varieties." ''Weekly Freeman's Journal'' 2 March 1872, Saturday: 7 [of 8], Col. 1a [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001446/18720302/062/0007. Print title: ''Weekly Freeman and Irish Agriculturalist'', same p.</ref> Shelton Abbey was the [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn#Residences|ancestral seat and at this time the country residence]] of the Earls of Wicklow, Arklow, Co. Wicklow. '''1872 May 20, Monday''', "Lady Caroline Howard and suite, Lady Alice Howard and suite, and the Hon Mrs Howard, Shelton Abbey, have arrived at Morrisson's Hotel."<ref>"Fashionable Miscellany." ''Dublin Evening Post'' 20 May 1872, Monday: 2 [of 4], Col. 9b [of 10, digital page has error]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000435/18720520/032/0002. Same print title, p. 3 [of 4], col. 2b [of 7].</ref> '''1872 July 29, Monday''', "The Hon. Mrs Howard, Lady Caroline Howard, Lady Louisa Howard, and Lady Alice Howard and suite have arrived at Morrisson's Hotel from London."<ref>"Fashionable." ''Dublin Evening Telegraph'' 29 July 1872, Monday: 4 [of 4], Col. 7a [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002093/18720729/054/0004. Print title: ''The Evening Telegraph'', n.p.</ref> '''1872 December 10, Tuesday''', the Hon. Mrs. Howard, Shelton Abbey, Lady Caroline Howard, Lady Louisa Howard, Lady Alice Howard and suite had "arrived at Horrisson's Hotel."<ref>"Fashionable Miscellany." ''Dublin Evening Post'' 10 December 1872, Tuesday: 2 [of 4], Col. 9c [of 10, on the digital page]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000435/18721210/025/0002. Same print title, p. missing but 3, col. 2c [of 8].</ref> '''1872 December 13, Friday''', "The Hon. Mrs. Howard, Lady Caroline Howard, Lady Louisa Howard, and Lady Alice Howard and suite have left Morrisson's Hotel."<ref>"Fashion and Varieties." ''Freeman's Journal'' 13 December 1872, Friday: 2 [of 8], Col. 7c [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18721213/006/0002. Same print title and p.</ref> '''1873 January''' '''13, Monday''', the Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard, the Hon. Lady Alice Howard and the Hon. Lady Louisa Howard attended the [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1870s#Ball at the Chief Secretary's Lodge|Marquis of Hartington's ball at the Chief Secretary's Lodge]]. It is not clear why Lady Caroline Howard's name is not mentioned. '''1873 January 14, Tuesday''', "Lord Dunally and suite, Hon. Mrs. Howard, Lady Alice Howard and suite, Lady Louise Howard and suite, and Lady Caroline Howard, have arrived at Morrisson's Hotel."<ref>"Fashionable Intelligence." ''Dublin Evening Post'' 14 January 1873, Tuesday: 3 [of 4], Col. 5a [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000435/18730114/049/0003. Same print and digital title, print p. is n.p.</ref> Since they attended a ball the night before, probably they had already arrived. Lady Catherine was with them. '''1873 January 27, Monday''', "Lady Caroline Howard and suite, Lady Louisa Howard, Lady Alice Howard, and the Hon Mrs Howard, have arrived at Morrisson's Hotel from Shelton Abbey."<ref>"Fashion and Varieties." ''Freeman's Journal'' 27 January 1873, Monday: 2 [of 8], Col. 7b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18730127/008/0002. Same title and p.</ref> '''1873 January 29, Wednesday''', Lady Louisa Howard and Lady Caroline Howard attended the [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1870s#Drawingroom at Dublin Castle|first drawing-room of the season, at Dublin Castle]]. Their dresses were not described. '''1873 February 14, Friday''', "The Hon. Mrs. Howard, Lady Caroline Howard, Ladies Alice and Louisa Howard, and suite, have arrived at Morrisson's Hotel."<ref>"Fashion and Varieties." ''Freeman's Journal'' 14 February 1873, Friday: 3 [of 8], Col. 4b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18730214/008/0003. Same print title and p.</ref> '''1873 June 19, Thursday''', Lady Caroline Howard and Lady Louisa Howard attended the [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1870s#19 June 1873, Thursday, Polo Match Between Officers of the Royal Horse Guards and Officers of the 9th Lancers|polo match between officers of the Royal Horse Guards and officers of the 9th Lancers]]. '''1873 September 18, Thursday''', Lady Caroline Howard and Miss Ker are listed as traveling on the Larne and Stranraer Route (not clear whether they were traveling to or from London).<ref>"Larne and Stranraer Route — Shortest Sea Passage." ''Belfast Telegraph'' 19 September 1873, Friday: 3 [of 4], Col. 3c [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001631/18730919/046/0003. Print title: ''Belfast Evening Telegraph'', n.p.</ref> '''1873 October 18, Saturday''', Lady Caroline Howard was on the stage for a ceremony laying the foundation stone of Orange Hall in Staffordstown, apparently part of a larger [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1870s#18 October 1873, Saturday, Orange Order Events at Govan|Orange Festival in Govan]]. The speeches were extremely anti-Catholic and bigoted. '''1874 December 15, Tuesday''', the Right Hon. Sir Michael and Lady Lucy Hicks-Beach hosted a dinner in the Chief Secretary's Lodge, suggesting that this social event might have had a political purpose. Mr. LeFanu cannot be the Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, who died 7 February 1873.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2026-06-28|title=Sheridan Le Fanu|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheridan_Le_Fanu&oldid=1361491348|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> (Perhaps this LeFanu is a relation, a son or brother? Another LeFanu with a first name gets mentioned at a social event about this time.)<blockquote>THE CHIEF SECRETARY’S LODGE.<p>The Right Hon. Sir Michael and Lady Lucy Hicks-Beach entertained the following at dinner on Tuesday evening at the Chief Secretary’s Lodge: — Sir Dominic Corrigan, Sir Arthur and Lady Olive Guinness, Lady Mary Fortescue, the Hon. Mrs. Howard and Lady Caroline Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Bernard, Colonel Henry, R.A., and Mrs. Henry; Mr. Donnelly, C.B., and Mrs. Donnelly; Mr., Mrs., and Miss lsaac; Mr. LeFanu, Colonel Forster, Colonel Hillier, and Mr. Caulfield [Caulfeild?].<ref>"Fashionable Intelligence." ''Cork Constitution'' 17 December 1874, Thursday: 4 [of 4; n.p. in print], Col. 1a [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001648/18741217/099/0004. Print title: ''The Cork Constitution''.</ref></p></blockquote>'''1876 March 23''', Cecil Howard, 6th Earl of Wicklow and Francesca Maria Chamberlayne married.<ref name=":18" /> '''1877 July 25, Wednesday''', Miss Tottenham, Lady Caroline Howard, Miss Colley are reported to have arrived at Merton Lodge in Torquay.<ref>"The Torquay Directory." ''Torquay Directory and South Devon Journal'' 25 July 1877, Wednesday: 4 [of 8], Col. 7a [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001246/18770725/085/0004. Same print and digital title and p.</ref> '''1877 July 28, Saturday''', Lady Caroline Howard is listed as one of the guests at Merton Lodge in Lincombe Hill Road Middle, Torquay. Other guests listed are Miss Kelly, Mrs. Frank Webber, Miss Tottenham and Miss Colley.<ref>"49. Lincombe Hill Road. Middle." "Torquay Directory." ''Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser'' 28 July 1877, Saturday: 2 [of 8, both print and digital], Col. 3c [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001420/18770728/039/0002.</ref> '''1877 December 6, Thursday''', donations from the Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard (£2 2s.), Lady Alice Howard (£1), Lady Caroline Howard (£1) and Lady Louise Howard (£1) to the Church of Ireland Clergy Widows' and Orphans' Society.<ref>"The Church." ''Cork Constitution'' 11 December 1877, Tuesday: 3 [of 4], Col. 2a [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001648/18771211/076/0003. Same print title, n.p.</ref> '''1877 December 15'''<ref>"Visitors' List." ''Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette'' 15 December 1877, Saturday: 3 [of 10], Col. 5c [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001365/18771215/025/0003. Print title: ''Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette, — County Journal''; same p.</ref>'''–22, Saturday, at least''', Sarah Howard, Lady Caroline Howard and Captain the Hon. Cecil Ralph Howard were visitors in Dagmar Terrace in Portsmouth. The following are all the people listed as visitors at Dagmar Terrace, with the odd numbering:<blockquote>D<small>AGMAR</small> T<small>ER</small><small>RACE</small>. # Captain the Hon. Cecil Ralph Howard, late 60th Rifles, & the Hon Mrs Howard Lady Caroline Howard # Captain & Mrs. Henderson ## [a] The Hon. Richard and Mrs. Bineham # [a] Captain and Mrs. Fearson and family # Mr.and Mrs. Hall Mrs. and the Misses Buchannans # The Rev Palms & fam # [a] Colonel Johnston [a] Mrs. Oldfield [a] Miss Flowers # Captain Parkinson and family<ref>"Visitors' List." ''Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette'' 22 December 1877, Saturday: 3 [of 10, digital and print], Col. 5 [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001365/18771222/027/0003. Print title: ''Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette, County Journal''.</ref> </blockquote> '''1878 January 18, Friday''', The ''Dublin Daily Express'' says,<blockquote>Lady Caroline Howard arrived yesterday at Kingstown from England.<p> Captain the Hon. C. Howard and Mrs. Howard have arrived at Kingstown from England.<ref>"The Court." ''Dublin Daily Express'' 19 January 1878, Saturday: 5 [of 8], Col. 6b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18780119/113/0005. Print title: ''The Daily Express'', same p.</ref></blockquote>'''1878 January 26, Saturday, – February 9, Saturday'''<ref>"Visitors' List." ''Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette'' 9 February 1878, Saturday: 3 [of 10], Col. 6c [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001365/18780209/033/0003. Print title: ''Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette, — County Journal'', same p.</ref>''', at least''', visitors at Dagmar Terrace (in Portsmouth?) were Lady Caroline Howard, listed with Capt. the Hon. Cecil Ralph Howard, "late 60th Rifles."<ref>"Visitors' List." ''Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette'' 26 January 1878, Saturday: 6 [of 10], Col. 6c [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001365/18780126/051/0006. Print title: ''Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette, County Journal'', same p.</ref> '''1878 July 20''', Claud John Hamilton and Carolina Chandos-Pole married.<ref name=":5">"Lord Claud John Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p11067.htm#i110662|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> '''1879 January 2, Thursday''', donations from the Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard (£2 2s.), Lady Alice Howard (£1), Lady Caroline Howard (£1) and Lady Louise Howard (£1 1s) to the Church of Ireland Clergy Widows' and Orphans' Society.<ref>"Church of Ireland Clergy Widows' and Orphans' Society." ''Morning Mail'' (Dublin) 7 January 1879, Tuesday: 2 [of 4], 7c [of 9]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0006104/18790107/022/0002. Print title: ''The Morning Mail'', n.p.</ref> '''1879 June 6, Friday''', Lady Caroline Howard and the Hon. C. Howard "left Kingstown for England" (listed in separate paragraphs).<ref>"Fashion and Varieties." ''Freeman's Journal'' 6 June 1879, Friday: 6 [of 8], Col. 2b [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18790606/024/0006. Same print title and p.</ref> '''1879 October 23, Thursday''', Lady Caroline Howard had "arrived from England."<ref>"The Court." ''Dublin Daily Express'' 23 October 1879, Thursday: 5 [of 8], Col. 3b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18791023/061/0005. Print title: ''The Daily Express'', same p.</ref> '''1880 June 2''', Cecil Howard, 6th Earl of Wicklow and Fanny Catherine Wingfield married.<ref name=":18" /> '''1880 December 13, Monday''', Lady Caroline Howard "arrived at Kingstown from London."<ref>"Court." ''Dublin Daily Express'' 13 December 1880, Monday: 5 [of 8], Col. 5b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18801213/089/0005. Print title: ''Daily Express'', same p.</ref> '''1881 July 25, Monday''', the ''Irish Times'' says that Lady Caroline Howard and "the Hon. Mrs. Howard and the Ladies Howard (2) have arrived at Kingstown from England."<ref>"Fashionable Intelligence." ''Irish Times'' 25 July 1881, Monday: 6 [of 8, digital and print], Col. 3a [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001683/18810725/124/0006. Same print title and p.</ref> '''1881 August 10, Wednesday''', the ''Dublin Evening Mail'' says that Lady Caroline Howard "has left Kingstown for England."<ref>"Fashion and Varieties." ''Dublin Evening Mail'' 10 August 1881, Wednesday: 3 [of 4], Col. 9c [of 9]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000433/18810810/046/0003. Same print and digital title, print p. is n.p.</ref> '''1881 October 22, Saturday''', Lady Caroline Howard is listed as one of the visitors staying at the Crown Hotel "during the past week." The visitors listed are the following:<blockquote>Mr. Thomas Barber, Doctor and Mrs. Ayerst, Miss Noyce, Dr. Wilks, Mr. Nightingale, Mr. and Mrs. J. Hill, Lady Caroline Howard, the Hon. Mrs. Ross, Mr. Masters, Mr. Richardson and friend, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Wilson, &c.<ref>"Lyndhurst, Oct. 22." ''Hampshire Advertiser'' 22 October 1881, Saturday: 7 [of 8, both print and digital], Col. 2c [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000495/18811022/049/0007. Print title: ''Hampshire Advertiser County Newspaper''.</ref></blockquote> === Fixing Things === '''1882 January 3, Tuesday''', the Howard women donated to feed poor people at Christmas: <blockquote>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.<p> Mr J R Fowler acknowledges with thanks the following for free breakfasts to the poor in the Christian Union Buildings:— Mrs Barker, £5; Mrs Lovell, by Mrs Aimers, 10s; Mrs Jno Figgis, [illegible, shillings]; collected by Miss Carroll, 10s: Capt Thompson, 5s; Mrs O Stoney, 2s 6d; Mrs E H Smyth, £1; A Friend, per Dr Darley, £1; Mrs Lewers, £1; Mr Holmes, 10s; Mr Duffus, 10s; Mr W O'B Smyth, 10s; Hon Mrs Howard, £1; Lady Caroline Howard, £1; Lady Alice Howard, 10s; Lady Louisa Howard, 10s; T C Ratcliffe, per Mrs Smyly, £5; Mrs Hemphill, per Mr G Atkinson, 2s 6d; collected in box, 9d — Total, [illegible12] 10 s 9d. Number present last Sunday, 1,200.<ref>"Acknowledgments." ''Dublin Daily Express'' 3 January 1882, Tuesday: 5 [of 8], Col. 4c [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18820103/061/0005. Print title: ''The Daily Express'', same p.</ref></blockquote>'''1882 March 16''', Georgiana Susan Hamilton and Edward Turnour married.<ref>"Lady Georgiana Susan Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1180.htm#i11791|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-09}}</ref> '''1882 June 1, Thursday''', the Hon. Sarah Howard and Lady Caroline Howard arrived in Kingstown from England.<ref>"Court and Fashion." ''Evening Irish Times'' 1 June 1882, Thursday: 7 [of 8], Col. 5b [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archives'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003464/18820601/108/0007. Print title ''Irish Times'', same p.</ref> '''1883 May 28, Monday''', the Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard and Lady Caroline Howard "left Kingstown for England," as did the Hon. Bourke.<ref>"Court and Fashion." ''Evening Irish Times'' 28 May 1883, Monday: 6 [of 8], Col. 8b [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archives'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003464/18830528/092/0006. Print title: ''Irish Times'', same p.</ref> '''1883 September 17, Monday''', Lady Caroline Howard had "arrived at Kingstown from England."<ref>"The Court." ''Dublin Daily Express'' 17 September 1883, Monday: 3 [of 8], Col. 2b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18830917/033/0003. Print title: ''The Daily Express'', same p.</ref> '''1883 October 29, Monday''', the Standing Committee of the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary met and accepted a number of donations, including £1 each from the Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard, Lady Alice M, Howard, Lady Caroline L. Howard and Lady Louisa F. Howard.<ref>"Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary." ''Dublin Daily Express'' 31 October 1883, Wednesday: 7 [of 8], Col. 2b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18831031/121/0007. Print title: ''The Daily Express'', same p.</ref> '''1883 November 20''', the marriage between Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton Spencer-Churchill and George Charles Spencer-Churchill was annulled by petition from Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton Spencer-Churchill (married in 1869).<ref name=":8" /> '''1883 December 27, Thursday''', the Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard and Lady Caroline Howard were invited to the ''déjeuner'' after the [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1883#Wedding of William Noble and Grace Elizabeth Lefroy|wedding of Colonel William Noble and Grace Elizabeth Lefroy]]. '''1886 November 25, Thursday''', the Council of the Church of Ireland Clergy Widows' and Orphans' Society met and accepted donations and subsriptions from a number of people, including the Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard (£2 2s), Lady Caroline Howard, Lady Alice Howard and Lady Louisa Howard (each £1).<ref>"Church of Ireland Clergy Widows' and Orphans' Society." ''Dublin Daily Express'' 27 November 1886, Saturday: 5 [of 8], Col. 7c [of 7pm]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18861127/121/0005. Print title: ''The Daily Express'', same p.</ref> '''1887 November 14, Monday''', the Standing Committee of the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary met and accepted a number of donations, including £1 1s each from the Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard, Lady Alice M, Howard, Lady Caroline L. Howard and Lady Louisa F. Howard.<ref>"Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary." ''Dublin Daily Express'' 15 November 1887, Tuesday: 3 [of 8], Col. 2c [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18871115/034/0003. Print title: ''The Daily Express'', same p.</ref> '''1891 June 2''', Ernest William Hamilton and Pamela Campbell married.<ref name=":7">"Pamela Campbell." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p2107.htm#i21063|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> '''1894 April 10''', Fanny Catherine Wingfield Howard, Dowager 6th Countess of Wicklow married her 2nd husband, Marcus Francis Beresford.<ref name=":18" /> '''1894 November 1''', James Albert Edward Hamilton and Rosaline Cecilia Caroline Bingham married at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, in London.<ref name=":14">"Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham." {{Cite web|url=https://www.thepeerage.com/p10104.htm#i101032|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2021-05-15}}</ref> '''1895 July 13 to August 7''', the general election of 1895. Following the election, the brother-in-law of Cecil Howard, 6th Earl of Wicklow's (brother of his first wife Francesca Chamberlayne) was unseated because of allegations of misconduct.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2026-02-27|title=Thomas Chamberlayne (cricketer)|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Chamberlayne_(cricketer)&oldid=1340809770|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> '''1897 June 28, Monday''', according to the ''Morning Post'', James Hamilton, 2nd Duke and Maria, Duchess of Abercorn were invited to the [[Social Victorians/Diamond Jubilee Garden Party|Queen's Garden Party]], the official end of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London, as were James Albert Edward Hamilton, Marquis and Rosaline, Marchioness of Hamilton.<ref>“The Queen’s Garden Party.” ''Morning Post'' 29 June 1897, Tuesday: 4 [of 12], Cols. 1a–7c [of 7] and 5, Col. 1a–c. ''British Newspaper Archive'' ''<nowiki>https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000174/18970629/032/0004</nowiki>'' and ''<nowiki>https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18970629/032/0005</nowiki>''.</ref> '''1897 July 2, Friday''', Alexandra Phyllis Hamilton attended the [[Social Victorians/1897 Fancy Dress Ball | Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball]] at Devonshire House, as did her uncle Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, the Marquess of Hamilton, and a Mr. Ronald Hamilton. Besides these, probably, a Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton also attended. '''1902''', Ralph Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow and Lady Gladys Mary Hamilton married. (She was the daughter of James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn.)<ref name=":18" /> '''1902 January 14''', Gladys Mary Hamilton and Ralph Francis Forward-Howard married.<ref>"Lady Gladys Mary Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p2107.htm#i21066|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-09}}</ref> '''1933 July 11''', Claud Nigel Hamilton and Violet Ruby Ashton married.<ref name=":4">"Captain Lord Sir Claud Nigel Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p2109.htm#i21081|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> == Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball == [[File:Helen-Mary-Theresa-ne-Vane-Tempest-Stewart-Countess-of-Ilchester-when-Lady-Helen-Stewart-as-the-Archduchess-Marie-Christine-of-Austria.jpg|thumb|alt=Black-and-white photograph of a seated woman richly dressed in an historical costume with a white feather plume in her hair and a fan|Lady Helen Stewart as Arch-duchess Marie Christine of Austria. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.]] === Lady Alexandra Hamilton === Lady Alexandra Hamilton was one of the archduchesses — along with with 3 or 4 other young women — in [[Social Victorians/People/Londonderry#The Entourage of Maria Thérèse|the entourage of the Marchioness of Londonderry]], who led the Austrian procession as Marie Thérèse, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.<ref>“The Ball at Devonshire House. Magnificent Spectacle. Description of the Dresses.” London ''Evening Standard'' 3 July 1897 Saturday: 3 [of 12], Cols. 1a–5b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18970703/015/0004.</ref>{{rp|p. 3, Col. 3a}} These young women were present at the ball as the daughters of Marie Thérèse, and the young men dressed as archdukes were present as her sons. Lady Alexandra Hamilton went as "Archduchess Marie-Josepha in the Archduchess Marie-Karoline and Emperor Joseph II section of the Austrian Court of Maria Theresa Quadrille."<ref name=":9">"Fancy Dress Ball at Devonshire House." ''Morning Post'' Saturday 3 July 1897: 7 [of 12], Col. 4a–8 Col. 2b. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18970703/054/0007.</ref>{{rp|p. 7, Col. 6b}} <ref name=":10">"Ball at Devonshire House." The ''Times'' Saturday 3 July 1897: 12, Cols. 1a–4c ''The Times Digital Archive''. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.</ref> The newspapers report that the archduchesses were all dressed alike, but only one photograph exists of any of these young women in costume — that of [[Social Victorians/People/Londonderry#Helen Mary Theresa Vane-Tempest-Stewart|Helen Mary Theresa Vane-Tempest-Stewart]] (which is shown, right). The newspaper descriptions are on her page, with her portrait in costume, but they apply to all the archduchesses. === Lord Frederick Hamilton === [[File:Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton Vanity Fair 1895-02-07.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Colored drawing of a man in a suit, his hands in his pockets, facing to the right|Lord Frederick Hamilton, ''Vanity Fair'', by "Spy," 7 February 1895]] Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton was 6th son and 13th child of the 1st Duke of Abercorn. No photograph of him in costume exists. He is shown (at left) as he looked in 7 February 1895 in a Spy caricature in ''Vanity Fair''. This caricature portrait, by Leslie Ward ("Spy") is called ''The Pall Mall Magazine'' and is Number 647 in Vanity Fair's "Statesmen" series.<ref name=":16">{{Cite journal|date=2024-01-14|title=List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures (1895–1899)|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine)_caricatures_(1895%E2%80%931899)&oldid=1195518024|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> He was editor of the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' 1896–1900.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2023-09-23|title=Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord_Frederick_Spencer_Hamilton&oldid=1176655264|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Frederick_Spencer_Hamilton.</ref> For the ball, Lord Frederick Hamilton was dressed *as a "gentleman of the Court of Queen Elizabeth," wearing "crimson cloth of gold with jewelled belt."<ref name=":15">“The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” The ''Gentlewoman'' 10 July 1897 Saturday: 32–42 [of 76], Cols. 1a–3c [of 3]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970710/155/0032.</ref>{{rp|p. 36, Col. 3b}} *as a "Gentleman of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. Costume of crimson and cloth of g [sic] with jewelled belt."<ref name=":9" />{{rp|p. 8, Col. 1b}} *"in crimson cloth of gold and jeweled belt."<ref>"Duchess of Devonshire's Fancy Ball. A Brilliant Spectacle. Some of the Dresses." London ''Daily News'' Saturday 3 July 1897: 5 [of 10], Col. 6a–6, Col. 1b. ''British Newspaper Archive'' http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000051/18970703/024/0005 and http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000051/18970703/024/0006.</ref>{{rp|p. 5, Col. 7a}} *"as a gentleman of the court of Queen Elizabeth, was dressed in a costume of crimson cloth-of-gold, with a jewelled belt."<ref name=":11">“The Devonshire House Ball. A Brilliant Gathering.” The ''Pall Mall Gazette'' 3 July 1897, Saturday: 7 [of 10], Col. 2a–3a. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000098/18970703/019/0007.</ref> ==== Memoirs ==== * Hamilton, Frederic [sic] Spencer. ''My Yesterdays'' (3 vols.). Hodder and Stoughton, 1920. *# ''The Days Before Yesterday''. The Internet Archive has this: https://archive.org/details/daysbeforeyester00hamiuoft/page/n5/mode/2up. *# ''Vanished Pomps of Yesterday''. The Internet Archive has this: https://archive.org/details/vanishedpompsofy028823mbp. *# ''Here, There and Everywhere''. The Internet Archive has this: https://archive.org/details/herethereeverywh0000hami. [[File:James Hamilton 3rd Duke of Abercorn.png|thumb|alt=Old colored drawing of a man in a 19th-century officer's uniform of the 1st Life Guards with white gloves, a red stripe down the side of his pants and unbuttoned jacket and a hat, holding a white or silver sword under his left arm, facing 1/4 to his right|"He will be the 3rd Duke" (James Hamilton, Marquis of Hamilton), ''Vanity Fair'' 16 February 1899]] === James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton === James Hamilton, Marquis of Hamilton was dressed in a "black velvet tunic; breeches and cloak trimmed jet; large hat, feathers, wig, sword, &c., of the period" of Charles II.<ref name=":15" />{{rp|34, Col. 3a}} No photograph of him in costume exists. A caricature portrait (right) called ''He will be the 3rd Duke'' (James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton) by "Hadge" appeared in the 16 February 1899 issue of ''Vanity Fair'', as Number 739 in its "Men of the Day" series,<ref name=":16" /> giving a sense of what he looked like at about the time of the ball. In 1892 Hamilton joined the 1st Life Guards, so the uniform he is wearing in this portrait is likely that of an officer of the 1st Life Guards.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2024-01-12|title=James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Hamilton,_3rd_Duke_of_Abercorn&oldid=1195216640|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hamilton,_3rd_Duke_of_Abercorn.</ref> James Hamilton's wife Lady Rosalind Hamilton is not reported as having been present at the ball, perhaps because she was pregnant with her second child and gave birth in August, five weeks later, so she was around 8 months pregnant. === Ronald Hamilton === Mr. Ronald Hamilton, possibly Ronald James Hamilton, was dressed as a "Gentleman of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, in black velvet trimmed with jet."<ref name=":9" />{{rp|p. 8, Col. 1c}} == Demographics == === Nationality === *The title Duke of Abercorn is in the peerage of Ireland; the Marquess of Hamilton is in the peerage of the U.K. === Residences === ==== The Hon. Mrs. Sarah Howard and the Earls of Wicklow ==== * Shelton Abbey, Arklow, Co. Wicklow (east coast of Ireland) (until 1951)<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2026-06-30|title=Shelton Abbey Prison|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shelton_Abbey_Prison&oldid=1361924427|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> == Family == *James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn (21 January 1811 – 31 October 1885)<ref name=":0" /> *Louisa Russell Hamilton (– March 1905) #Lady '''Harriet Georgiana Louisa Hamilton''' Anson (6 July 1834 – 23 April 1913) #Lady Beatrix Frances Hamilton Lambton (21 July 1835 – 21 January 1871) #Lady Louisa Jane Hamilton Scott (26 August 1836 – 16 March 1912) #Lord '''James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn''' (24 August 1838 – 3 January 1913) #Lady Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton Edgcumbe (9 January 1840 – 3 September 1874) #Lady Georgiana Susan Hamilton Turnour (7 July 1841 – 23 March 1913) #Lord '''Claud John Hamilton''' (20 February 1843 – 26 January 1925) #Rt. Hon. Lord Sir '''George Francis Hamilton''' (17 December 1845 – 22 September 1927) #Lady Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton Spencer-Churchill (29 July 1847 – 7 January 1932) #Lord Ronald Douglas Hamilton (17 March 1849 – DVP<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2020-07-27|title=James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Hamilton,_2nd_Duke_of_Abercorn&oldid=969822724|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> 6 November 1867) #Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton Petty-Fitzmaurice, the [[Social Victorians/People/Lansdowne | Marchioness of Lansdowne]] (17 December 1850 – 21 October 1932)<ref name=":1" /> #Lord Cosmo Hamilton (16 April 1853 – 16 April 1853) #Lord '''Frederick Spencer Hamilton''' (13 October 1856 – 11 August 1928) #Lord '''Ernest William Hamilton''' (5 September 1858 – 14 December 1939) *Harriet Georgiana Louisa Hamilton Anson (6 July 1834 – 23 April 1913)<ref name=":2" /> *Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (15 August 1825 – 7 January 1892) #Lady Evelyn Anson ( – 2 July 1895) #Thomas Francis Anson, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (31 January 1856 – 29 July 1918) #Hon. Sir George Augustus Anson (22 December 1857 – 25 May 1947) #Major Hon. Henry James Anson (29 December 1858 – 26 February 1904) #Lady Florence Beatrice Anson (1860 – 25 September 1946) #Hon. Frederic William Anson (4 February 1862 – 2 April 1917) #Hon. Claud Anson (11 January 1864 – 25 December 1947) #Lady Beatrice Anson (1865 – 15 December 1919) #Hon. Francis Anson (7 March 1867 – 13 April 1928) #Lady Mary Maud Anson (1869 – 22 September 1961) #Lady Edith Anson (1870 – 8 October 1932) #Hon. William Anson (19 April 1872 – 22 June 1926) #Hon. Alfred Anson (15 April 1876 – 25 March 1944) *James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn (24 August 1838 – 3 January 1913)<ref name=":12" /> *Maria Anna Curzon-Howe Hamilton (23 July 1848 – 10 May 1929)<ref name=":3" /> #James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (30 November 1869 – 12 September 1953) #Claud Penn Alexander Hamilton (18 October 1871 – 18 October 1871) #Charlie Hamilton (10 April 1874 – 10 April 1874) #'''Alexandra Phyllis Hamilton''' (23 January 1876 – 10 October 1918) #Claud Francis Hamilton (25 October 1878 – 25 December 1878) #Gladys Mary Hamilton Forward-Howard (10 December 1880 – 12 March 1917) #Arthur John Hamilton (20 August 1883 – 6 November 1914) #(unnamed son) Hamilton (31 October 1886 – 31 October 1886) #Claud Nigel Hamilton (10 November 1889 – 22 August 1975)<ref name=":4" /> * '''James Albert Edward Hamilton''', Marquess of Hamilton and 3rd Duke of Abercorn (30 November 1869 – 12 September 1953)<ref name=":13" /> * Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham (26 February 1869 – 18 January 1958)<ref name=":14" /> *# Lady Mary Cecilia Rhodesia Hamilton (21 January 1896 – 5 September 1984) *# Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton (16 August 1897 – 4 December 1972) *# Lady Katharine Hamilton (25 February 1900 – 28 April 1985) *# James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn (29 February 1904 – 4 June 1979) *# Captain Lord Claud David Hamilton (13 February 1907 – 15 February 1968) *Claud John Hamilton (20 February 1843 – 26 January 1925)<ref name=":5" /> *Carolina Chandos-Pole Hamilton (19 July 1857 – 21 September 1911)<ref>"Carolina Chandos-Pole." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p11067.htm#i110663|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> #Colonel Gilbert Claud Hamilton (21 April 1879 – 30 March 1943) #Ida Hamilton (23 July 1883 – November 1970) *George Francis Hamilton (17 December 1845 – 22 September 1927)<ref name=":6" /> *Lady Maud Caroline Lascelles Hamilton (1846 – 14 April 1938) #'''Ronald James Hamilton''' (26 September 1872 – 22 January 1958) #Anthony George Hamilton (17 December 1874 – 11 July 1936) #Robert Cecil Hamilton (31 January 1882 – 31 July 1947) *Ernest William Hamilton (5 September 1858 – 14 December 1939)<ref>"Lord Ernest William Hamilton." {{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p2107.htm#i21062|title=Person Page|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2020-10-08}}</ref> *Pamela Campbell Hamilton ( – 11 May 1931)<ref name=":7" /> #Guy Ernest Frederick Hamilton (11 November 1894 – 23 November 1914) #Mary Brenda Hamilton (28 March 1897 – 14 March 1985) #Jean Barbara Hamilton (6 September 1898 – 2 November 1989) #John George Peter Hamilton (15 October 1900 – 17 June 1967) === Earls of Wicklow === * Charles Hamilton (1772 – 29 September 1857)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepeerage.com/p2139.htm#i21387|title=Charles Hamilton. Person Page #2139|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2026-06-19}}</ref> * Marianne '''Caroline Tighe''' ( – 29 July 1861)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepeerage.com/p62375.htm#i623745|title=Marianne Caroline Tighe. Person Page #62375|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2026-06-19}}</ref> *# '''Sarah Hamilton''' (1805<ref name=":17" /> – 13 March 1892) *# Caroline Elizabeth Hamilton ( – 31 May 1909) *# Mary Hamilton *# Charles William Hamilton (1 April 1802 – 16 February 1880) *# William Tighe Hamilton (31 March 1807 – ) *# Frederick John Henry Fownes Hamilton (27 July 1816 – 1893) * Rev. Hon. Francis Howard (12 January 1797 – 16 February 1857)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepeerage.com/p2140.htm#i21391|title=Rev. Hon. Francis Howard. Person Page #2140|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2026-06-19}}</ref> * Frances Beresford ( – 17 November 1833)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepeerage.com/p3227.htm#i32266|title=Frances Beresford. Person Page #3227|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2026-06-19}}</ref> *# William George Howard (25 April 1825 – 12 October 1864) * '''Sarah Hamilton''' (1805<ref name=":17">{{Cite web|url=https://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000572704|title=Tighe, Hamilton and Howard Papers,|date=1737|website=catalogue.nli.ie|language=English|access-date=2026-06-19}}</ref> – 13 March 1892)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepeerage.com/p2141.htm#i21405|title=Sarah Hamilton. Person Page #2141|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2026-06-19}}</ref> *# 4 unnamed daughters [per The Peerage; The NLI has 3 daughters] *# Lady Alice Howard *# Lady Louisa 'Loulie' Howard *# Lady Caroline Howard (1836–1923)<ref name=":17" /> *# Charles Francis Arnold Howard, '''5th Earl of Wicklow''' (5 November 1839 – 20 June 1881) *# Cecil Ralph Howard, '''6th Earl of Wicklow''' (26 April 1842 – 24 July 1891) * Cecil Ralph Howard, '''6th Earl of Wicklow''' (26 April 1842 – 24 July 1891)<ref name=":18" /> * Francesca Maria Chamberlayne ( – 1877) *# Ralph Howard, 7th Earl of Wicklow (24 December 1877 – 11 October 1946)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepeerage.com/p2140.htm#i21394|title=Cecil Ralph Howard, 6th Earl of Wicklow. Person Page 2140.|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2026-06-28}}</ref> * Fanny Catherine Wingfield (c. 1860 – 3 February 1914)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepeerage.com/p2139.htm#i21388|title=Fanny Catherine Wingfield. Person Page 2139.|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2026-06-28}}</ref> *# Hon. Cecil Mervyn Malcolm Howard (18 November 1881 – 16 April 1882) *# Hon. Hugh Melville Howard (28 March 1883 – 17 February 1919) * Marcus Francis Beresford (26 December 1862 – 14 December 1896)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepeerage.com/p3186.htm#i31858|title=Marcus Francis Beresford. Person Page #3186.|website=www.thepeerage.com|access-date=2026-06-28}}</ref> == Memoirs and Archives == # The Abercorn Papers: GB 0255 PRONI/D623 (found via https://iar.ie/archive/abercorn-papers). A descriptive list is available to search online at: http://www.proni.gov.uk/. The collection is arranged as follows: D623/A Correspondence D623/B Title deeds and leases D623/C Rentals, accounts and vouchers D623/D Maps, plans, surveys, inventories and valuations D623/E Photographs, illuminations, addresses and albums D623/F Material still at Baronscourt D623/G Miscellaneous #Alexandra Phyllis Hamilton (#64 on the [[Social Victorians/1897 Fancy Dress Ball#List of People Who Attended|list of people who were present]]) attended the [[Social Victorians/1897 Fancy Dress Ball | Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball]] at Devonshire House, as did her uncle Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (#84), the Marquess of Hamilton (#657), and a Mr. Ronald Hamilton (#105). Besides these, probably, a Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton also attended. == Questions and Notes == #DVP = decessit vita patris, died while the father was still living #Mr. Ronald Hamilton cannot be Frederick Hamilton's brother, who should be Lord Ronald Hamilton rather than Mr. Ronald Hamilton, and he died in 1867. He could be this Ronald Hamilton, who would be a Mr. Hamilton: http://www.thepeerage.com/p2163.htm#i21622. He was Lady Alexandra's cousin and nephew of the 1st Duke of Abercorn. #A Mr. Hamilton is mentioned in the ''Gentlewoman'' article: "Mr. Hamilton (Elizabethan costume), black velvet, trimmed gold."<ref name=":15" />{{rp|34, Col. 1c}} But a later reference in this same article to Mr. Ronald Hamilton matches the description in the ''Morning Post'' article, saying he wore black velvet with jet, rather than gold trim: "'''Mr. Ronald Hamilton''' (gentleman of the Court of Queen Elizabeth), black velvet with jet."<ref name=":15" /> (36, Col. 3b) I believe the other Mr. Hamilton is Mr. [[Social Victorians/People/Cole-Hamilton|Claud Cole-Hamilton]], particularly since Mrs. Hamilton was dressed as Amy Robsart and thus must be Lucy Charlewood Cole-Hamilton because of the description of her costume in the Album of photographs given to the Duchess of Devonshire later. #Claud John Hamilton is probably who attended the social events, because the other Claud, of whatever generation either died too young or was born too late. == Footnotes == {{reflist}} k7zjhtxlvdqcbt2d6s14bph1w4er394 Social Victorians/Timeline/1870s 0 264241 2818326 2818260 2026-07-14T19:05:09Z Scogdill 1331941 2818326 wikitext text/x-wiki ==Time Line== [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1840s|1840s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1850s |1850s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1860s | 1860s]] 1870s [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1880s | 1880s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1890s | 1890s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1900s|1900s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1910s|1910s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1920s-30s|1920s-30s]] ==1870== "Until 1870 all of the money women earned belonged to their husbands, and until 1882 their property did too, even after a divorce or separation."<ref name=":4" /> (698 of 1203) In 1870 Parliament debated and defeated the first bill for women's suffrage, but allowed "women who owned property ... to stand for election to school boards."<ref name=":4" /> (698–699 of 1203) "The bulk of Irish farmers did not own their land, and instead leased it from landlords, the majority of whom lived in England. In 1870, only 3 percent of agricultural holdings were occupied by owners."<ref name=":4" /> (742 of 1203) Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Arthur Sullivan were at the same dinner party in 1870? Another dinner party had as guests Charles Dickens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Tenniel and George Du Maurier. January February March April May June July August September October November December ==1871== Although Queen Victoria had opened Parliament for the first time in February 1866, when people saw her for the first time in years as her open carriage made its way, she was unpopular because it seemed she was not working. Gladstone was Prime Minister.<blockquote>Between 1871 and 1874, eighty-five Republican Clubs were founded in Britain, protesting, among other things, the "expensiveness and uselessness of the monarchy" and Bertie's "immoral example."<ref name=":4">Baird, Julia. ''Victoria the Queen, an Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire''. Random House, 2016. Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/victoria-the-queen/id953835024.</ref> (617 of 1203)</blockquote>"The 1871 Royal Commission on the Contagious Diseases Acts ... declared there was no comparison to be made between prostitutes and their clients: 'With the one sex the offence is committed as a matter of gain, with the other it is an irregular indulgence of a natural impulse.'"<ref name=":4" /> (704 of 1203) === January === Germany is united under King William I of Prussia. Julia Baird says, "At the same time, Italy captured and annexed the Papal States, which had been under the direct rule of the Pope since the 700s and had lost their protector in Napoleon III."<ref name=":4" /> (646 of 1203) ==== 4 January 1871, Wednesday ==== <blockquote>INVITATION BALL. <p>On Wednesday evening last Major Goodman and the Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards gave an invitation ball, which was held in the Drapers’ Hall (kindly placed at their disposal by the Drapers’ Company). The following ladies and gentlemen were amongst those who received invitations The Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford; the Earl and Countess of Aylesford; Lady A. N. Finch, Lord Guernsey, and the Hon. Mr. Finch; Lord and Lady Leigh and Miss Leigh; Lord and Lady Henley and Miss Henley, Miss Elwes, Lord and Lady Wrottealey, Lord and Lady Manners; C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M.P.; Captain, Mrs., and Miss Adams; E. Petre, Esq., and Lady Gwendoline Petre; J. Beech, Esq., Mrs. and Miss Beech, and Mr. Beech, jun.; Mr. and Mrs. Turner; Mr. and Mrs. Fetherstone Dilke, Mrs. and the Misses Fetherstone, Mr. Fetherstone, and Mr. Beaumont Fetherstone; Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Muntz; Captain and Mrs. Boultbee, of Knowle; Mr. C. M. Caldecott, Mrs. Caldecott, and the Misses Caldecott; the Rev. A. Fanshawe and Mrs. Fanshawe; Captain and Mrs. Battine; the Rev. S. C. Spencer Smith; the Rev. R. H. Baynes, M.A., vicar of St. Michael’s; the Rev. H. T. Harris, (Christ Church); General and Mr. Richmond Jones; Colonel F. Chaplin, and the Officers of the 4th Dragoon Guards, stationed at Northampton; Captain Thornelow, and the Officers of the Royal Artillery, at Weedon; the officers of the 4th Royal Regiment at Weedon; Mr. and Mrs. E. Wood; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wood; the Colonel and officers of the First Warwickshire Militia; Mrs. and Miss Alston, and Mr. Alston, jun., of Elmdon; Mr. and Mrs. F. Paget; Mr. and Mrs. Gulson; Captain Thomson; Captain and Mrs. Raleigh King; Mrs. Phillipson; Lord and Lady Mountgarret; the Honourable Miss Butler; Mr. and Mrs. Courtenay Lord; the Hon. Mrs. Twistleton; Mr. and the Misses Conant; Captain and Mrs. J. Marsland; Major and Mrs. Edlman; Mr. and Mrs. Astley; Mr. T. Lant, Mr. R. Lant and Mr. J. Lant, Mrs. and Miss Lant; Mr. W. T. Cavendish; Mr. and Mrs. A. Rotherham; the Marquis of Ormonde, of the first Life Guards; the Earl of Calludon, of the First Life Guards; Mrs. and the Misses Hobson; Mr P. Hobson, and Mrs. Hobson; Mr. and Mrs. Soames; Mr. and Mrs. Adderley, Sir John Rae Reid; Capt. and Mrs. Townshend, of Caldecote Hall; Lieut.-Colonel Swinfen and the Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards stationed at Leeds; Capt. Marsden and the Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards stationed at Birmingham; Colonel, Mrs., and Miss Bourne; Mr. and Mrs. Wyley Lord; Captain and Mrs. Thursby; Mr. and Mrs Morrice; Lieut.-Colonel Wirgman; Mr. and Mrs. J. Rotherham; [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]]; Mr. and Mrs. Rotherham; Mr and Mrs John Sankey and the Misses Sankey; Mrs. and the Misses Murphy; Mr. Bibby (4th Hussars), Captain Gist (7th Hussars), Mr. Gregg (8th Hussars), Mr. Hamilton (7th Dragoon Guards), Colonel Rattray, Mr and Mrs. R. Boyd, &c, &c.</p> <p>The string band of the 5th Dragoon Guards, under the direction of Mr. Sidney Jones, performed the following selection of music:— Quadrille, Barbe Bleue; Valse, Marian; Galop, Bonderbryllup; Lancers, Knight of St. Patrick; Valse, Hydropaten; Galop, Flick and Flock; Quadrille, Princess of Trebizonde; Valse, the Belle of the Ball; Galop, the Fox Hunters; Valse, the Dragoon Guards; Lancers, the Gaiety; Valse, the Beautiful Danube; Valse, Wiener Kinder; Quadrille, the Fest; Galop, the Village Rose; Valse, the Geraldine; Lancers, Merry Tunes; Galop, Barbe Bleue; Valse, Various; Galop, Glorioso.<ref>"Invitation Ball." ''Coventry Standard'' 6 January 1871, Friday: 4 [of 4], Col. 5b [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000683/18710106/100/0004. Same print title, n.p.</ref></p></blockquote> === February === ==== Birmingham Tennis Court Club Ball ==== 1871 February 17, Friday, the "bachelors of the Tennis Court Club" hosted a ball in Birmingham:<blockquote>LEAMINGTON.<p> B<small>ACHELORS'</small> B<small>ALL</small>.<p>— Last night the bachelors of the Tennis Court Club gave a grand ball at the Royal Assembly Rooms, Regent Street. The ball was one of the most brilliant of the season, nearly four hundred of the ''élite'' of the town and neighbourhood having accepted the invitation of the bachelors. The ballroom was specially fitted up for the occasion, and a splendid supper was served in the adjoining rooms, where refreshments were also provided. Coote and Tiney's band was specially engaged for the occasion, and played a selection of the newest and most popular dance music. Amongst the distinguished guests present were — The High Sheriff and Mrs. J. T. Arkwright, Lady Arbuthnott, Lord and Lady Conyers, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Viscount and Viscountess Mountgarret and the Hon. Miss Butler, Sir John and Lady Blois, Sir Thomas Biddulph, the Hon. Miss Somerville, Sir William and Lady Fairfax, the Hon. Charles L. Butler, Rev. Sir John Rae, General and Mrs. Richmond Jones, Major Eldman, Major and Mrs. James Ashton, Major and Mrs. Boothby, Colonel Ruttie, Colonel Duberly, Colonel and Mrs. Machen, Colonel Rattray, Capt. and Mrs. Kennedy, Capt. W. J. Hall, Capt. Hodge, Capt. and Mrs. Morgan, Capt. and Mrs. Pearse, Capt. Roberts, Capt. Story, Mr. and Mrs. Featherstone Dilke (Maxstoke Castle) and Miss Dixie, Mr. C. M., Miss, and Miss M. A. Caldecott (Holbrooke Grange), Mr. and Mrs. J. Dugdale (Wroxhall Abbey), Mr. E. Greaves, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Adderley (Hams Hall), and Capt. and Mrs. Hatherall. Several of the officers from the dragoons and artillery at Coventry and Birmingham were also present. The bachelors who gave the ball were twenty-eight in number.<ref>"Leamington." "District News." ''Birmingham Morning News'' 18 February 1871, Saturday: 7 [of 8, print and digital], Col. 5b [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005826/18710218/114/0007. Print and digital title are the same.</ref></p></blockquote>Another description of this same event, the Bachelors' Ball at the Leamington Spa:<blockquote>The bachelors’ ball at Leamington Spa, which took place on the 17th inst., was a greater success than ever. It was held as usual in the Assembly Rooms, which, by the bye, might be better adapted to such purposes. Theyare not so bad as far as the ball room goes, but to reach the supper room you have to make a pilgrimage up one of the steepest and most uncomfortable staircases ever seen; still, however difficult the journey, a safe arrival will repay one. The room was very prettily decorated, and most sumptuous fare provided. The following is a list of the bachelors who gave the ball: Mr Neville Bagot, Mr Ramsay Clarke, Mr Erasmus Galton, Mr C. H. Gregg (8th Hussars), Mr Ralph C. Gregg, Mr William Gillett, Mr Thomlinson Grant, Col. Hammond, R.A., Capt. Hull, Mr Wm. Harrison, Mr Pulsford Hobson, Mr Sydney Hobson, Mr F. C. Lister Kay, Viscount St. Lawrence, M.P., Capt. Maxwell Lyte (7th Dragoon Guards), Mr Richard Lant, Mr John Lant, Mr Oswald Milne, Mr W. W. Moore, Mr Thomas Norman, Mr Hamilton Osborne, Capt. John Paynter, Capt. Pullin, Mr George Rennie, Mr Alex. G. Stuart, Mr J. H. Sanders, Mr Edmund Vyner, Captain Vandeleur; and nothing that they could do was wanting to make it a most complete success. The frequenters of the subscription balls could scarcely recognise the rendezvous of their fortnightly meetings. A porch had been erected over the entrance in the parade, and the corridors all round the dancing room carpeted with crimson and prettily decorated. Banks of flowers had been arranged in every available corner of the ball room, and a number of mirrors hung against the wall reflected the gay scene. Coote and Tinney’s band played a charming selection, and dancing was kept up with much spirit to a late hour. The company was a large one, the toilettes exceedingly pretty. Among those present were Lord and Lady Conyers, Sir William and Lady Fairfax, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Viscount and Viscountess Mount-Garrett, [[Social Victorians/People/Ormonde|Hon. Miss Butler]], Sir John Rae Reid, Hon. Mary Somerville, &c.<ref>"Fashionable Entertainments." ''The Queen'' 25 February 1871, Saturday: 19 [of 24], Col. 3b [of 3]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002627/18710225/121/0019. Print title: The Queen, ''The Lady's Newspaper'', p. 133.</ref></blockquote>The ''Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser'' has a more detailed account:<blockquote>THE BACHELORS' BALL. This fashionable ''réunion'' of the ''élite'' of the town and neighbourhood took place the Assembly Rooms last evening The large room was beautifully decorated by Mr. Abotta, of Lower Bedford-street, who had the entire management of the preparations. Coote and Tinney's band occupied the orchestra, and played an admirable selection of first-class dance music. Mr. Wheal, of the Lower-parade, supplied the supper. The following gentlemen constituted the committee of management:— Mr. Neville Bagot, Mr. Ramsay Clarke, Mr. Erasmus Gallon, Mr. C. H. Gregg (8th Hussars), Mr. Ralph C. Gregg, Mr. W. Gillett, Mr. Thomlinson Grant, Colonel Hammond, R.A., Captain Hull, Mr. Wm. Harrison, Mr. Pulsford Hob- [Col. 5c–6a] son [Hobson], Mr. Sydney Hobson. Mr. F. C. Lister Kay. Viscount St. Lawrence, M.P., Captain Maxwell Lyte (7th Dragoon Guards), Mr. R. Lant, Mr. J. Mr. Omld w. Moore. Mr. Thos. Normao. Mr. HnmiltoQ Osborne. Uapraiu John Cuptain Pullin. Mr. George Renore. Mr. AlrsindcrO. Stoert. Mr. J. U. Sander*, Mr. Edmund yuer, ■od Captelo Vaodekur. . Tbo following list of the com pan v. •Jp » nminged:—Mf. Mrs. end Mi« And row, Mosoley Major Ashton sod Mf. inure*, 28, Etnsduwrc-pUce. Ellen Andrew, Moseley Lodge} Mr. turd Mrs. J. T. Arkwright, Hatton.House, Hatton; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ashton, Beech* KenilWorth-road ; Mr. end Mr*. AdtJcHcf, Hama Hal I. Warwick; Mr. snd Mia* Alston, Elmdon Hall. Solihull: W. and Mrs. T. Alston. Elmdon Hall, Solihull; Mrs. and Mias Ackers, eAez Mounlgarrctc, 34, Eiosdowno-place; Lady Arbuthoott, Shentoo Hall. Sfuncaton; Mr. Augusta* Arkwright, llattOQ House; Miss Adams, 3. Warwick-placo; J. Aogerelein. PayntcrHcnby Till*; Mr. Astlcy. HamUton-placP; Arihor, George HotelAHugly; Sir Tbeophilue HkJdulph, Birdingbory Hall; and the Miascfi (3) Bnoowes. 29, Dale-street; Captain and Mrs. ittinc, fialhorpo Hall; Captain and Mr*. Charles Blundell. Don Villa; Mr. George and Mis* Brodio, Rowington Vicarage; Sir John and Lady Biol*. 31, Clarendon-snuare; and Mr*. Barlow, Id, Honourable Charles Lennox Butler, Coton House, fltlgoy; Mr. and Mrs. Boult bee. Springfield, Knowle; Mr. William Blundell. Dun Villa; MissK. Browne, r/ifz Beaver Huberts. Thctra Bank; Mr, Mrs., and Mias Beech, Brandon Lodge, Coventry; Mr* Bamc, Clarendon Hotel; Major and Mrs. Clencairo; Mr. and Mr*. K-athfort Boyd, e/u: Viscoonlcsa Mountgairctt; Florence Booth, Huntley Lodge; Major Butter, Majori banks; Mr. and Mrs. 1, Clarence ■crescent; Mr. Philip Bamc. Villa; Captain R. Bedford. Knowle Lodge. Lichfield ; Mr. T. Beech, juo., Brandofl Hell; Miss Boothly, Glencairn; Mr. Mrs, and Mis* Brown Clayton, 3-5. Clarendon Siiifaro; Mr.. Mr*., and Misa Chambers, Eialwo»d Lodge; Captain C. B. Cave. Lanccra, Ivenilwnrih; Mias Carlos, Leam-terrace; Lord and Conyers, Wollusbourno; Mr. Mrs., and Misa A. Caldecott, HolbnaA Grange, Rugby; Mr. and Mr*. Aprico Cobs, Clareqdynequaro; Mr*, and filrroy Campbell. W•llcaboUfn*; Miss Mary Browne Clayton, Clarendun-smiare Captain Stapklon Colton, Kelstooe, Southampton; Dr. Collins, 6, Euatonplace; Mr. Chambcrlayne, Thorpe, Soutbam; Mr S. Corbet, Villa; Mr, J. and Mr. T. Cramplop. Mrs Knightley. Kincton; Captain and Mr*. Chichester, B.H. A. Coventry Barrack* Mr. M. Campbell, 45, CUreodon-squara; Mr. and Mrs. Dopp*, 11, Upper-parade; Mias Dixie, Maxstoke Castlo; Mr. Beauchamp DowoaU, 3, Sherbournc-pUco ; Colonel, Mr* . and Misa Daberley, 19. Clarendoß-sauiirß; Mr. 8. Kevill Davie*. Darls-lcn HaU, Coventry ; Mr. Fauncsfort Danoombe. Viscountesa Mr. and Mr*. Dogdak, Wroxhall Abbey; Mis* Davies, cAe Unett, Castle From*; Major and Mr*. Edenwo, Bentimk House; Miss Edith Featherstoo, High-street, Warwick; Sir Wm. and Lady Fairfax, 90, LansdowiwcrMccnt; Captain Minsbsll horde, eArt Uifelt, Castle From*; Mrs. Fane, Newbold-terrace; Captain W. Pcathorafone, Warwick; Mr. Beaumont Featherston, Warwick; Mr. and Mra. G. Greenway. Binswood i Cot Ugo: Mr. and Mr*. Newberry George, Orosvenor House; j Major, Mr., and Mlat Oresley, Meriden Lodge; Mr., Mrs., | and Miss Oriee, Mrs. and T. Grant, Mr*. Oakfirld*; Mr. and Mrs. Graham, Oakland*, near Birmingham; Mias Grant, Oakfiold, London; Misa Gsmaon, Clarendon-square; Mr. W. Grant, Regiment, eAes Tomlinson Grant, CUrendun-squnrc; Sir. Watson Gooch, Sherboume-placa; Miss Once Granville, eAez Haifa, Harvey Villa; Captain Geergea, Oakficlds; Mr. Edward Greaves, M.P.. Mr. and Mra. Hunt. Kenilworth-Toad j Mr. Yatee Hnnt, Acton Villa; Captain and Mra. Hath era! I. Radford Houeo; Ml** Hoey, Bt. Helen’s; Mias Hope, Milverton Lodge; Mr.and Mrs. Cmton Hcnslmw, Lanadown6 Villa; Mia* Hughes, Mrs. Clement Hoey, St. Helens; Mr*, and the Misses Hobson, Beauchamp-square; Mr. J, T. Hartley, Long Castle, Sbiffnal; Mr. T. Harter, The Cedars; Captain Hobson, (3rd Buffs), Avon Lodge; John Hetberington, Edatonc, Henley; Mr. H. Heathfield, Lady Caroline Howard, Waterloo-placo; Captain Hodge, e/iez Hobson. Bcaucbamp House; Miss Hurst, Hobaon, Beauchamp Hooao; Capt. W. J Hall, Junior United Service Club; Mias Alice Hartley, Tony Caatle, Salop; Mr. and Mias Hodgson, Clopton, Stratford; Mr. Charles Hartley, Tony Caalle, Salon; Mr, Edwin Hobson, Beauchamp Housc-mubto ; Mist Holbech, Hacket, Binswood; Mr. and Sirs. Jeatfrewn. Lanadownt- Csco; General and Mr*. Jonc*. Clorendon-aquare; Mr. Cove, rs. and Miss Junes, Hall, Warwick; Mr. Washington Jackson, eAez Harter, The Ccdare; Mr. James Jameson, Church-street; the Miwws Johnstone, Pigolt, Nowboldterrace; Mra. King Hannan, Ashley Lodge; Mis* Lizzio Holliday, Ashley Lodge; Miss Hetherington. Edston Hall; Mr. A. Hillyard, Souths®; Mr. Edgar Hibbtrt, Whitley Abbey; Major IGlh Regiment, Rugby; Mr. and Mra. Kay, Lansdownc-placo; Mr. italnigh King, Lillington; Captain and Mra. Kennedy, oth Dragoon Guards, Lillington; K*v, Mr. and Mra. Knightly, Combrooko, Mr. Kcrubsw, United Hotel, Charles-street, 6t. James: Mr. Maxwell Lyle, Magdalen College, Oxford; Misa C. Lyon. Bankficld; Mis* Lowes, Clarendon-square; Miss S. Lowndes, Rugby; Mra. Lockwood. St. Helen s; Mr. Webb Lindsay, Birmingham; Mr. and Mrs. Lucy, Charlecotc Hall; Mins Catharine Lyon, ; Mr. R. Lancaster, Bilton Grange; Mr. T. H. Lowe, Oxford; the Misses Ley (2) Clarcndon- Suare; Viscount and Viscountess Mountgarrett. Lansdowneace; Hon. Miss Butler, Lonsdownc-plac*; Mr. and Mra, Majoribauka, Kewbold Fir*; Mr. and Mrs. W, H. Milne, Beaucharap-equare; Mrand Mrs. Male, Euston-place; Mr. Her bert Molyocux, Tennis Court Club; Capt. and Mra, Morgan’ Wcllington-atrect; H. M. McCalmont, Grosvcnor-place, London; Mr. and Miss Moore, KnightcoU House, Milverton; Mr. J. M. Middleton, Clarendon-square; Mr. and Mrs. Mareland, Huntley Lodge; Mr. A. Myers. Coldstream Guards, Lillington Lodge; Mr. J. Middleton, Waltonplace; Mr. McLeon, Binswood; Mr. MacGregor, Clarendonsquaro; Miller, Kenilworth House; Misa Mntendtc, Xewbold-terrace; Mr. and Mra. Mollist, Lanadownecircus; Colonel and Mrs. Machen, Lillington ; Miss Newbie, Beochcroft; Mr. and Mra. Philip Fewroan, Warwick - road Misa Newton, Unett, Castle Froma; Captain Norton, 3rd Dragoon Guards, Beauchamp-square; Dr. and Mrs. O'Callaghan, Clarendon-square; head officers of the 2nd and Dragoon Guards, Leeds, Barracks; ditto, detachment the stb Dragoon Guards, Birmingham Barracks; ditto, ditto, Coventry Barracks ; Misa Osborne, Clareudon-squaro ; Mr. Mrs. Osborne, Clarendon-aqiisre ; Mr. snd Mrs. Oldham, Castle From* ; Miss Oromancy. Warwick-plnco ; Miss Emily Owen, and Miss Owen, Colesbill House; Mr. F. Osborne, Clarendon-square; Mr. and Mrs. Billingsley Parrey, Terrace; Mr. and Mra. Palmer, Cloreudou-square; Mr. Mra. Mis* Payntcr, Dcnby Villa; Mr. Mrs. and Misa Pigott, N'uwbold-terrace; Captain and Mra. Pearce, Marjorlwnka, Mins and Miss L. Pritchard, Upper-parade; Miss Pixrll, South-bank; Mrs. and the Misses Pullin, Watcrloo-place; Miss Louisa Hussy, Bcaucbamp-walk; Misa and Miss Ada Pcnniogtun, Thickthom, Kenilworth; Mr. Mra. and Mia* Perry, Bitbam Unuse, Avon Daasett; Mr. H. K Pullin, Junior, St. James Club; Miss Penny, Warwick-placo; Miss Phillips, CUrcndon-squoro; Mr. Pennington, Thickthurn; Mis* Henrietta Passy, Beau chump-walk ; General and Mra. Potter, Holly-walk; Mr. Mra. and Mira Beaver Roberts, Thorn-bank; Mr. Stewart Roberts, Thorn-bunk; Mr. nnd Mrs. Ruundell, Fulham Villa; Colonel and Mr*. Ruthe, Clarence-terrace; Miss Raymond, Douglas House; Mr. Rowley Robertson, South Lodge; Mr. and Mrs. Roesell, Ncwbold-terraco; Miss Ryland, Unrford Hall; Sir John Reid, Rugby; Mr. and Mr*. Worley Roberts, Oakley House; Mr. Percy Robertson and Mr. D. Robertson, Newboldtcrraco; Neville Rolfo, Dale-street; Colonel Clerk lUtlray, Lansdowne-place ; Mr. Maurice Raymond, Douglass House; Captain Roberts, Binswood; Mr. Andrew Robertson, Banbury; Miss Read, Clarendon-square; Mr. M. Russell, Leek Wootton; Mr. A.*P. Roberts, Brazenose College, Oxford; Mr., Mra.. and Miss Scholcs, Zelam Lodge; Mon. Mary Somerville, Riber House: Mira Stuart, Clarendon-square; Mr. E. Sanders, Omskirk, Lancashire ; Miss Palgrave Simpson, Princes Park, Liverpool; Miss Sroythe, Solihull Rectory; Mr. J. F. Starkey. Stratford ; Mr. and Mrs. George Stratton, Husband’s Bosworth, Rugby; Mr. Hamilton Stuart, Clarendon-square; Miss Sinclair, Dalestreet ; Mr. Sedgwick, Warwick-placa; Mr. Spencer Smith, Clarendon-square; Captain Starry • Miss Stallard, Waraeford Villa; Mr. W. Stanoombe, Magdalen College, Oxford; Mias Seymour, Warwick-read; Misa Saukcy, Bcanchamp-wolk ; Mr. Spooner, Uth Regiment, Clarendon-square; Mr. Strongitharm, Norton House; Mr. and Mrs, Molyneux Sea), Milton House; Mr. W. Sinclair. Dale-street; Mr. J. Smith, Dale-street; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Turner, Milverton Lodge; Mia* Ellen Turner, ditto; Mias Tomkinson, Dalestreet; Miss Thompson, Binswood; Miss Tuite, Warwickplace; Miss Temple, Newbold-terraco; Mr. Dudley Tarleton, tram-terrace; Mia Tucker, Dale-street; Mr. and Mra. O. Unett,Castle Frame; Mr. Gwinett, ditto; Mr. and Miss Unett, Portland-street; Mr. and Mra. White, Beaucharapwslk; Mira Wheler, Bertie-terrace; Mia E. and Mies C. Wise, Shrublands; Mr. and Mia Wollaston, Shanton Hall, Nuneaton; Mr. E. O. Whelcr, Bertie-terrace; Mr. and Mias West. Alscot Park, Stratford; Mr. and Mre. Woodmass, Moscly Lodge; Misa Ward rope, Waterloo-placo; Miss WetberaU, Woodcote; Mia Lilly and Misa Alice Wise, Culbington Orange; Mra. and Miss Wright, Lansdownecrescent; Mr. H. White. Asbfidd House; Mia Wakefield, Castle Froma. Mr. Herbert Wood, Revel; Mr. Young, Whilnosh Rectory. Invitations were also sent to the following but deeliued for family other reasons: —Lord and Lady Leigh aod Mira Lcighs (2); Mra. General Hall, the Misses Collinson, Mr., Mra, and Misa Uobaon, Avon Lodge; Lieul-Culonel and Mrs. Fiennes; Captain and Mre. Gregg; Captain and Mra. Vaughtoa; Mra. Frederick Oubbins, Mr. J. P. and Mra. Gnbbihs; Mr. Stoort; MissMnconcby; the Staunton ; Mira Galton ; Mr. Raleigh King; Sir. Edward Whelcr; Miaa Miller; Mr. Jennings; Dr. and Mra. Jepbson; Dr. end Mr*. Thomson ; Mr. and Mra. Philpot; Mr. H. and the Misses Baker; Mr. R. Read; Sir Robert and Lady Hamilton; Mr. H. C. and Mr. G. Wise; Colonel and Mira Daniel; Mr. and Mra. Bigland; Mr. and Mra. Robertson; Mias Stevenson; Mra. Osborne; Mira Harter; Mr. ond Mrs. Lister Kay; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chance; Mr., Mra. and tbo Misses Bradshaw; Lady Hardly ; Miss Stevenson Captain Torqaand Major Payntcr; Captain Tomkiusoo; Lady Haiupson; Mr. Banio; Mr. Augustus Wise; Mr. and Mra. John Mordaunt; Lady Willoughby Broke; M*. Caldecott; Mr. Hamilton and Mira Story; Mira Mabel Hurst; Mr. and Mrs. Bolton King; Mira Kato Fetberaton; Sir Charles Mordaunt, Lord and Lady Willoughby Broke; Mira Rigby; Mr*, and Mira Wise, Woodcote; Mr. E. Mr., Mrs. and Miss Pennington, Westfield; Mr., Mra. nod Mira Mackenzie; Mira Wilkins; Major Lee. Mr. and Mra. Mark Hammond, Miss P. Hughe*; Lord and Lady James Murray ; Mr. and Mra. Barker, Mr. and Mre. James West, Mira Hackctt, Mr. and Mira Walker, Mra. Harman King, Mr. Clement Hoey, Mr. Herbert Wood. Mr. Thomas Lant, the Earl of Howtb, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Bookeley and Mr. E. Steward. Fordbunt. jockey, has just concluded tbo purchase of two estates Yorkshire. The Ahtillkky.—With a of raising the provinces the additional men required by the augmentation of the army, parties of tfao Royal Artillery are onco to bo stationed various parts of kingdom. One battery left for Northampton Tuesday, and the headquarters of the lltii Brigade will proceed from Woolwich to Sheffield to-day. ExTKAOHDiNAbY Chakge I'halu.—At Marlboroughatreet on Thuraday Mr. R. G. Hopp.-Jobustono and Mr. J. SmaHpage were charged with having conspired obtain from Mr. W. 11. Milbsnkc Bums of £2.600 and A third charge of ateuliup hills of £4.600 was mentioned likely be preferred against the former defendant. Mr. Milbanke young gentleman of large fortune, who canto age December, 9. and the theory of the prosecution wn» that the defendant* had induced him accept certain pieces of paper which were afterwards manufactured into bills. Several of these had been presented for payment, and the prosecutor was sued upon them. The magistrate, after hearing the learned counsel's statement, doubted whether tho graver part of the charges could I© sustained, and the evidence of Mr. Milbanke having been taken, the case was adjourned, the defendants being liberated on their own recognizances. ldioticCut'RLTY.—For sometime back the members the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Animals have been dir'ctfng special attention treatment of cattle. The result has been the exposure of an amount of ignorant brutality quite astonishing. A case in point bns just been tried at the Buckingham Petty Sessions, where Emanuel Hall, of Lons Crendoo, farmer, was charged with cruelly torturing sheep, three boreea, and four pigs, at Long Creadon nod Shabbington. William Sinclair, one of the officer* of the society, stated that wont to the defendant's farm at Long Crendon, the Ist at., and found there in meadow, about quarter of milu from the homestead, fifty-four sheep a wretched and debilitated state. The ground was covered with snow, and there was no idcn of food about. The animals were nothing but akin and bene, and witness coaid lift any one of them with one hand. bad a conversation with the defendant, who told him that four of the sheep bad died—be supposed be said, because they bad not enough to eat. The evidence this witness and others the condition of sheep another put of the farm, tfea «ad tiu, pigs re,e.W vim deplorable state of affairs. The total amount erf the fine impoeod, including costs, was £10,135. DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE. </blockquote> === March === === April === ==== 18 April 1871 ==== <blockquote>Karl Marx “was commissioned by the General Council of the International to write a pamphlet about the Paris [377–378] Commune."<ref name=":3">Smee, Sebastian. ''Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism''. W. W. Norton, 2024.</ref>{{rp|377–378 of 667}}</blockquote> ===May=== ==== 9 May 1871, Tuesday, Queen's Drawing-Room ==== <blockquote>THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM. The Queen held a Drawing-room at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday afternoon. The Priuce of Wales, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice were present. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the other members of the royal family, entered the Throne Room shortly after three o'clock. The Queen wore a black moire antique dress with a train, long white tulle veil with a coronet of diamonds. Her Majesty also wore a necklace of diamonds and amethysts, the Riband and Star of the Order of the Garter, the Orders of Victoria and Albert and Louise of Prussia, and the Saxe Coburg and Gotha Family Order. Princess Beatrice wore a dress of white tulle over a rich white silk petticoat looped up with lilies of the valley and apple blossom; ornaments — pearls and diamonds. The presentations to Her Majesty were about 280 in number, and included the following:— Mrs Atlay, by the Countess Grey; Miss Backhouse, by her mother, Mrs Backhouse; Miss Charlesworth, by her aunt, Frances Lady Hawke; Miss Backhouse Fox, by her aunt, Mrs Backhouse; [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], by her mother, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|the Hon. Mrs Howard]]; the Hon. Gwendoline Fitz-Alan Howard, by the Duchess of Sutherland; [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Alice Howard]], by her mother, Hon. Mrs Howard; [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Louisa Howard]], by her mother, Hon. Mrs Howard; Miss Howard (of Corby), by the Hon. Mrs Philip Stourton; Miss Agnes Howard (of Corby), by the Hon. Mrs Philip Stourton; Sir Henry Ingilby, Bart., by Earl Russell; Mrs Frank Lascelles, by Lady Edward Cavendish; Mrs Gerald Liddell, marriage, by the Countess of Normanby.<ref>"Court and Official News." ''Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer'' 11 May 1871, Thursday: 3 [of 4], Col. 4c [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000686/18710511/074/0003. Same print title and p.n.</ref></blockquote> ==== 24 May 1871, Wednesday: Derby Day ==== Baron Rothschild's Favonius won. The Prince of Wales attended. ==== 25 May 1871, Thursday, Dinner Party Hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Charltons ==== <blockquote>Mr. and Mrs. Charlton, of Hesleyside, entertained at dinner, on Thursday evening, at 47, Princesgate — his Excellency the Spanish Minister, Count de Beaufort Spontin, Lord and Lady Houghton and the Hon. Miss Milnes, Lord and Lady Acton, the Hon. Lady Williamson, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Mrs. and Miss Milner Gibson, Viscount Burke, Lord Beaumont, Lord Campbell, the Master of Herries, Major Fife, &c.<ref>"Fashionable World." ''Morning Post'' 27 May 1871, Saturday: 5 [of 8], Col. 6c [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18710527/019/0005. Same print title and p.</ref></blockquote>June July August September ===October=== '''October 1871'''<blockquote>At Londesborough Lodge near Scarborough, where Lady Londesborough gave a royal house party in October 1871, not only [ 41/42 ] were the bathrooms few but the drains seeped into the drinking water. Several guests, including the Prince [of Wales] and his groom and Lord Chesterfield, contracted typhoid fever. When Chesterfield and the groom died, the doctors abandoned hope for the Prince.<ref name=":1">Leslie, Anita. ''The Marlborough House Set''. New York: Doubleday, 1973. Print.</ref>{{rp|41–42}}</blockquote> The Prince of Wales recovered on 14 December 1871. November December ==1872== January February March April ===May=== '''29 May 1872, Wednesday''': Derby Day June July ===August=== '''August 1872''': The "dance on the cruiser Ariadne" probably occurred in August 1872:<blockquote>When his [the Prince of Wales'] brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, married the attractive Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, her family made a fuss because she was not granted precedence above the Princess of Wales. Albert Edward soothed ruffled feelings by inviting the Tsarevitch and his wife Marie Feodorovna (who was Alexandra's sister) to stay for two months and be entertained at Cowes. ...<p></p> ... At the dance on the cruiser Ariadne which the Prince gave in honour of the Tsarevitch and his Grand Duchess," Lord Randolph Churchill met the 19-year-old "Miss Jennie Jerome of New York."<ref name=":1" />{{rp|42–43}}</blockquote> September October November December ==1873== === January === ==== 13 January 1873, Monday ==== ==== Ball at the Chief Secretary's Lodge ==== On Tuesday, 14 January 1873, the Dublin Evening Telegraph reported that the Marquis of Hartington's ball had taken place the evening before.<blockquote>The Marquis of Hartington gave a ball last evening at the Chief Secretary's Lodge, to their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess Spencer, who were accompanied by the Dowager Countess Spencer, the Ladies Sarah and Victoria Spencer and the Hon Robert Spencer, Lord and Lady Charles Bruce, and Major Stirling, A D C.<p> The following had the honour of receiving invitations to meet their Excellencies — The Duke of Leinster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, the Ladies Fitzgerald, the Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, Lord and Lady Edward Cavendish, the Earl of Charleville, the Lord Chancellor and Lady O'Hagan, Viscount, Viscountess, the Hon Misses, and Hon Henry Monck; the Archbishop of Dublin, the Hon Mrs and the Misses Trench; Lord Talbot de Malahide and the Hon Francis Talbot, Lord and Lady Sandhurst and Captain Bang, A D C; Lady Cloncurry, Hon Emily and Hon Mary Lawless, Viscount, Viscountess, Hon Georgiana, and Hon Beatrice [de?] Vesci; Lord and Lady Kilmaize [?], Hon Gertrude [?] Browze, Lord and Lady Ventry, Hon Norah Westenra, Lord and Lady Athlumney, Lord, Lady, and Hon D Plunket, M P; Viscountess and the Hon. Miss Netterivlle, Capt the Hon Mrs Vesey, Captain and Lady Julia Follett, Sir Arthur and Lady Olive Guiness and the Ladies White, the Hon H W L Corry, Lord and Lady and the Hon Miss O'Neill, Viscount Hawarden, the Hon Florence Maude, the Hon. Clementina Maude, the Hon Jenico and Mrs Preston, the Hon Henry Leeson, Colonel and the Hon Mrs Caulfield, Mr and the Hon Mrs Robert Hobart, Captain, Lady Mary and Miss Lindsay; Mr Ion [?] Trent Hamilton, M P; Mr Bagwell; the Hon Mrs and the Misses Bagwell, and Mr Bagwell; Colonel the Hon L and Mrs Curzon Smyth, Mr, Lady Margaret, and the Misses Stronge [?]; Mr and the Hon Mrs O'Hagan, Hon Charles Bourke, Hon Mrs Alfred and Lady Kathleen Bury, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Hon Mrs, Lady Alice, and Lady Louisa Howard]]; Captain, the Hon Mrs, and Miss Donaldson; Dr and Miss Bans, Mrs Grattan Bellew, Sir Edward and Miss Borough, Mr Arthur Cane, Sir Dominic, Lady, and Miss Corrigan; Mr Corrigan, Mr and Mrs Gustavus Cornwall and Miss Cornwall, Mr D'Arcy, M P, and Mrs D'Arcy; Mr Baron Dowse [?], and Mrs and Miss Dowse, Mr Baron Deasy and Mrs Deasy, Dr, Mrs, and Miss de Ricci; Dr and Miss Hatchell, Sir George and Lady Hudson, Mr, Mrs, and the Misses Huband; Mr Arthur Huband, Miss Caroline Huband, Mr and Mrs Arthur Hume, Dr Hughes, Mr Henry Jephsen and Miss Jephsen, Mr Kearney and the Misses Kearney, Captain Kearney, A D C; Captain Lascelles, A D C; Mr, Mrs, and Miss Kirwan; Mr Justice Lawson and Mrs Lawson, Mr and Mrs W Le Fanu, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Lentaigne; Sir George L'Estrange and the Misses L'Estrange, the Lord and Lady Mayoress, and the Misses Mackey; the Lord Chief Justice Monahan, Mrs and Miss Monahan; Sir J, Lady, and Miss Power; Mr John Talbot Power, M P; Col, Mrs, and Miss Radcliffe; the Master of the Rolls, Mrs and Miss Sullivan; Capt and Mrs Moorsom, A D C; General Sir Thomas and Lady Steel, Captain and Mrs Brownrigg, A D C, Mr Granville Milner, Capt, Mrs and Miss Talbot, Colonel, Mrs, and the Misses White; Sir John Stewart Wood, Lady and the Misses Wood; Mrs and the Misses Williams, Mr Justice Fitzgerald and the Hon Mrs Fitzgerald, Mr Fitzgerald, Mr Justice Barry and Mrs Barry, Mr Sergeant Sherlock, M P, Mrs and Miss Sherlock; Mr Sheriock, the Right Hon W H Conan, M P, and Mrs Cogan; Mr Justice Keogh and Mrs Keogh, Mr Keogh, Capt Keogh, R N; Lord Chief Baron and Miss Pigott, Dr, Mrs, and Miss Nugent; General Wardlaw, Colonel M'Kerlie, Mr Sergeant and Mrs and Miss Armstrong; Col, Mrs, and the Misses Maude; Col, Mrs, and Miss Hillier; Mr Heron, M P; Mr and Mrs Watters, Col and Mrs Wynyard, Dr and the Misses Kennedy, the Attorney General and Mrs Palles, the Solicitor General and Mrs Law, Col, Mrs, and Miss Lake; Lady and the Misses Butler, Mr Butler, Col and Mrs Colthurst Vesey, and Miss Walton; Mr, Lady Fanny and Miss Lambert; Mr E C Guinness, Mr and Mrs MMorer O'Ferrall, Mr and Mrs Leonard Morrogh, Sir Bernard and Lady Burke, Mr G and Mrs G Brooke and Miss Brooke, Mr and Mrs Roe, Mr Vance, M P, Mrs and Miss Vance; Col and Mrs Primrose, Lieut Col Ferdall [?], Col and Mrs Goodlake and Miss Alexander, Mr Alison, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Barton, Mr Justice Flanagan, Mrs and Miss Flanagan, Mer J. N. Lentaigne, Mr Johnson, Captain Harrison, Mr, Mrs, and the Misses Maturin; Mr Justice Morris and Mrs Morris, Mr and Mrs Mazlere [?] Brady, Major, Mrs, and Miss Wilkinson; Mr, Mrs, and Miss Donnelly; Mr and Mrs Cruise, Mrs Power, Mr Braon Fitzgerald and Mrs Fitzgerald, Mr Henry Yates Thompson, Mr Courtenay Boyle, Colonel Forster, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Taylor, Mr Bland and Mrs Godfrey Bland, Mr and Miss Dillon, Mr and Mrs Wallace, Mr M'Kenna, Mr Cullinane, Mr Armstrong, Mr C E [?] Dobbin, Mr J A Blake, Major and Mrs Papillon, Capt and Mrs Keane, Mr E Pretty, Mr, Mrs John L O Ferrall and Miss O'Ferrall, Mrs and Miss Walsh, Mr and Mrs R Howard Brook, Mrs and Miss Brook, Mrs and the Misses Blake, Mr and Mrs J Warren, Sir John Gray, M P, Lady, and Miss Gray; Colonel and Mrs Frank Chaplin, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Hemphill; Sir R, Lady and Miss Kane, Mrs and Miss Courtenay, Mr Arthur Courtenay, Mr G Courtenay, Mr E Hardtop, A D C; Mr Bellew, Dr and Mrs Nedley, Dr and Mrs Newell, Mr and Mrs Freeman, Mr and Mrs Geale, Captain Hutten, A D C; Mr and Mrs Adair and Miss Wadsworth, Captain and Mrs J M Benthall, Sir R, Lady, and the Misses M'Causlend [?]; Mr, Mrs, and the Misses Newell Barron; Mr Hawkins, Colonel Goodlake and the Officers of the Coldstream Guards; Captain Spain, R N, and the Officers (4) of her Majesty's ship Vanguard; Colonel Radcliffe and Officers (4), Royal Artillery; Colonel Spade and Officers (4) 1st King's Dragoon Guards; Colonel Ainslie and Officers (4), 1st Royal Dragoons; Colonel Thompson and Officers (4), 14th Hussars; Colonel Ross and Officers (4), 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade; Colonel Hawkins and Officers (4), Royal Engineers; Colonel Gloster and Officers (4), 97th Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell and Officers (4), 13th Regiment.<ref>"Fashionable." ''Dublin Evening Telegraph'' 14 January 1873, Tuesday: 4 [of 4], Col. 7a–b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002093/18730114/044/0004. Print title ''The Evening Telegraph'', n.p.</ref> </blockquote> ==== 29 January 1873, Wednesday ==== ==== Drawingroom at Dublin Castle ==== The women listed in the 2nd paragraph, about the members of the Household who were present, were listed as accompanying their husband or father, not as working members of the Household.<blockquote>DRWNINGROOM [sic] AT DUBLIN CASTLE. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess Spencer held the first Drawingroom for the season at Dublin Castle on Wednesday evening. Shortly after nine o’clock their Excellencies entered the Throne Room, attended by the following members of the Household:— The under Secretary — Thomas H. Burke, Esq. The Private Secretary — Henry Y. Thompson, Esq; Miss Thompson. The State Steward — Colonel the Hon. Luke White. Comptroller — Lieutenant-Colonel Caulfield; Hon. Mrs. Caulfield. Gentleman Usher — Major the Hon. E. Boyle; Hon. Mrs E. Boyle. Chamberlain — Hon. H. Leeson. Master of the Horse — Lieutenant-Colonel Forster. The Gentleman in Waiting — Lieutenant-Colonel J. M'Donnell and Hon. Mrs. M‘Donnell. The Gentlemen at Large — Lowery Balfour, Esq, Captain Donaldson, and Hon. Mr. Donaldson. Aides-de-Camp — Major Sterling, Lieutenant the Hon. V. Lyttelton, Captain Lascelles, Captain Bridges, Capt. F. Seymour, Captain Kearney, Captain Chaplain, V. C; Lieutenant Hartopp, Lieutenant Wynne Finch, Lieutenant A. Egerton, Captain Hutton, Captain Wood. The Physician in Ordinary — Thomas Nedley, Esq, M.D. The Surgeon in Ordinary — George Hatchell, Esq., M.D., and Miss Hatohell. The Surgeon to the Household — James S. Hughes, Esq. MD. Her Excellency’s Pages of Honour — Hon. J. Somerville, and Mr. Charles White. There was very large company present among them being the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress; [sic] The Lord Chancellor and Lady O’Hagan. The Lord Chief Justice, and Mrs. Whithside. The Lord Chief Baron and Mrs. Pigot, the Attorney-General and Mrs. Palles, the Solicitor-General and Mrs. Law. Major-General Sir Thomas Steele, K.C.B., and Lady Steele (presented.) Captain Brownrigg, A.D.C., and Mrs. Studholm Brownrigg. Colonel Primrose, C.S.I., Deputy Adjutant-General. Colonel the Hon. Leicester Smith, C.B., Deputy Quartermaster-General, and the Hon. Mrs. Leicester Smith. Mr. Porter, Surgeon in Ordinary to the Qneen in Ireland, and Mrs. Porter. Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, Lady Alice Fitzgerald, and Lady Eva Fitzgerald. Marquis of Headfort, Lady Adelaide Taylour, Lady Florence Taylour. Marquis of Drogheda and Marchioness of Drogheda. Earl and Countess of Shannon, Earl of Kenmare, Countess of Charlemont, Anna Countess of Kingston, Dowager Countess Spencer and Lady Victoria Spencer, Viscount and the Viscountess Monck, and the Hon. Frances Monck, Viscountess Gormanstnwn, Viscountess Netterville, Lord Talbot de Malahide and Hon. Frances Talbot, Lord and Lady Lisgar, Lord Crofton, Lord and Lady Plunket, Lady Sandhurst, Lady Athlumney, Lady Hastings, Lady Cloncurry, Lady Colthurst, Lady Louisa Tenison and Lieutenant-Colonel Tenison, Lady Barbara Chetwynd Stapylton, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Louisa Howard]], [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Lady Julia Follett and Captain Follett, Lady Georgina Croker, Lady Catherine Bury, Lady Steward Wood, ['''Col. 3c–4a'''] Miss Stewart Wood, and Miss Elvyn Stewart Wood, The Right Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald and the Hon. Mrs. Fitzgerald, the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Morris, the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Barry, and Mrs. Barry, the Right Hon. Baron Dowse, Mrs. Dowse, and Miss Dowse, Judge Woulfe Flanagan, Mrs. and Miss Woulfe Flanagan. The Provost of Trinity College and Mrs. Lloyd, the Moderator of the General Assembly. Colonfel Frederick Maude, V.C., C.B., Deputy Inspector General of Auxiliary Forces; Mrs. Frederick Maude, and Miss Ada Cecil Maude (presented). Colonel Lake, C. B. Commissioner of Police, and Miss Lake. LADIES’ DRESSES. Her Excellency the Countess Spencer — Train and corsage of rich Lyons peon velvet, lined poult de foie, trimmed bouillones of tulle illusion to match, nœuds of satin and plumes of peacock, and ostrich feathers, same shade; corsage, Raphael, trimmed band of peon velvet, beautifully embroidered in self colours, plumes of ostrich and peon to correspond; petticoat of richest satin antique, with jupes of tulle, beautifully trimmed three broad plisses, with plumes of peacock's tail, headed with shells of velvet all to match train in colour; at sides and backs stoles and broad sashes of peon velvet, beautifully embroidered in self colour; across body of dress was band of velvet, worn like sash; studded with the most magnificent brilliants. Headdress a tiara of diamonds and peon plume; ornaments, diamonds. The Lady Mayoress, Mansion House — Train and corsage of richest black satin raye, lined blue glace, and trimmed plisses of blue poult de soie; corsage, trimmed a draperie of tulle, with fall of very fine Irish point lace; petticoat of rich blue poult de joie, with volants of Irish point lace, and tulle plaitings, headed blue satin. Head-dress, coart plume, Irish point lace; ornaments, diamonds. Hon. Mrs. Caulfield, Dublin Castle — Train and corsage of the richest black gros de Suez, lined black taffeta, tastefully trimmed; bouillones of tulle and silver wheat; corsage, trimmed a draperie of tulle, silver wheat, and silver bullion fringe, with a fall fine Brussels point; petticoat of rich black glace under jupe of chantilly; trimmed tablier tulle and satin shells, tunic to correspond, looped black velvet bows, and bouquets of silver wheat. Headdress, court plume, point lappets and diamonds; ornaments, diamonds. Mrs. Whiteside, Mountjoy-square — Train and corsage of rich pink satin antique, lined with white Florence, beautifully trimmed with bias and nœuds of satin, and a volant of very fine Brussels point; corsage, trimmed draperie of tulle and satin, with fall point lace; petticoat of white satin antique, with jupe of Alencon tulle, tulle plaitings edged with folds of pink satin, and volant fine Brussels point. Headdress. Lady Butler, Ballintemple, county Carlow — Train and corsage of richest white satin, trimmed bouillones, and pouffs of white tulle de chene, festooned with bouquets of pink laburnum, set rosettes of white tulle de chene; petticoat of white Bruxelles net, trimmed with roulleax of white satin, and bouilloned the waist en pompadour. Headdress, court plume, lappets, and feathers; ornaments, diamonds and pearls. Miss Wynn, Wynstay, Roebuck — Train and corsage of rouleaux satin, trimmed with pouffs and bouillones of white tulle de chene, and edged with richest blonde lace; petticoat lavender glace, trimmed with rings and frillings of tulle de chene and rich flounce of blonde lace. Headdress, Court plume and lappets ; ornaments, tiara of diamonds. The Countess of Shannon, Castlemartyr, county Cork — Train of richest white satin, lined marceline, &c., trimmed with white tulle, studded with pearls, and volantes of real Brussels lace; jupe of richest white satin, with tunic of finest real Brussels lace, looped up with chatelaine of pink roses; corsage, a la gracque trimmed en suite. Headdress, plumes of feathers with lappets ; ornaments, diamonds. Mrs. Murphy, Mount Loftus — Train and corsage of rich mauve gros grain, lined with white satin, and trimmed with Carrickmacross lace and bias folds of silk; petticoat of mauve glace, with mauve tulle, jupe, trimmed en tablier with Carrickmacross lace, and flounce and buillons of tulle. Headdress — Lappets, feathers, and tiara of diamonds. Ornaments, pearls and diamonds. Mrs. Maxwell, Cruiserath, Clonsilla — Train and corsage of rich ruby velvet, lined with rich white silk, and trimmed with Brussels lace, centre of train trimmed with bows of moire ribbon, the train looped at the side with an echarpe of wide ribbon; corsage to correspond; of rich gros de Suez silk, trimmed with white Brussels lace, flounces headed with ruche of green tulle illusion, studded with green flowers, front trimmed en tablier. Headdeess [sic] — Court plume, Brussels lace lappets, and diadem of diamonds. Miss Pigot, 15, Merrion-square, East — Train with pouffe of magnificent black silk, lined with white marcelline, beautifully trimmed with broad bias of lavender satin, ruching of lavender net and Spanish blonde; sash of lavender satin, fastening side under pouffe; corsage, Louis Quinze; petticoat of white poult de soie, with overskirt of white Brussels net, trimmed en tablier, with platings of lavender net and satin, fastening at side, with nœuds of lavender satin. Coiffure — Court plume and tulle veil. Ornaments — Diamonds. Miss Jackson, Ahanesk, Midleton, Co. Cork — Presentation train, with pouffe and sash of richest white faye silk, lined with marcelline, tastefully trimmed with fluffed plaiting of white silk and satin; corsage, Pompadour style, trimmed with white satin and tulle; jupon of white poult de soie, with overskirt of white tulle, trimmed with alternate plaitings of tulle and white satin. Coiffure — Court plume and tulle veil. Ornaments — Diamonds and pearls. Mrs. Safford, 97th Regiment — Train and corsage of rich maize satin, lined, richly trimmed with tulle ruche, true-lover’s knots, and nœuds de velour noir, from agrafe; corsage, garnier richment de danlette ancienne; jupe, tulle, maize ruche, richly trimmed to match train. Headdress — Ostrich feather and tulle lappets. Ornaments — Diamonds and pearls. Miss Mackey—Train and corsage of the richest maize poult de soi, lined with Florence silk, and elegantly trimmed with bouffants of tulle, illusion, and guirlands of cherita leaves; corsage trimmed to correspond; jupe of white tarlatane buillonee and wreaths of cherita leaves. Coiffure — Maize feather and long tulle veil. Ornaments — Silver.<ref>"Drawingroom at Dublin Castle." ''Cork Constitution'' 31 January 1873, Friday: 3 [of 4], Col. 3c–4b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001646/18730131/056/0003. Print title: ''The Constitution; Or Cork Advertiser'', n.p.</ref></blockquote>February March April ===May=== '''28 May 1873, Wednesday''': Derby Day === June === ==== 19 June 1873, Thursday, Polo Match Between Officers of the Royal Horse Guards and Officers of the 9th Lancers ==== <blockquote>THE POLO CLUB. Although the weather was dull and gloomy yesterday, there was a large company at the club grounds to witness the match between the officers of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) and the officers of the 9th Lancers. A number of carriages surrounded the enclosure, and many ladies were present, among whom were the Marchioness of Waterford, Viscountess Middelton, Lady Philippa Stanhope, the Countess of Mayo, the Hon. Miss Brodrick, Lady Little, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Louisa Howard]], [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Lady Harriet Duncombe, Miss Duncoinbe and Miss E. Duncombe, the Hon. Mrs. O'Grady and Miss O'Grady, Lady Knollys and Miss Knollys, the Dowager Lady Craven, Lady Grey de Wilton, Lady Fanny Fitzwigram, Lady Petre, Lady M. Egerton, Misses E. and G. Egerton, the Countess of Gleichen, Lady C. Brineman, Lady Campbell, Lady Emily Ormsby Gore, the Countess of Coventry, Lady Maria Ponsonby, and Lady Henry Somerset. Just before 4 o'clock the competitors took up their stations at the goals, the Hon. H. Boscawen and Sir Beach Cunard being the judges. The Guards, having choice of stations, elected to play from the Pavilion goal, although there was a strong wind blowing against them. Play was called for the first "bully," and when the ball was tossed into the centre of the ground the advanced guard of both sides missed their blows; and, this brought the others close up, and after some spirited hitting the Guards got the ball nearly to the bottom goal, where it was knocked out of bounds three or four times. Each time it was returned into play some severe rallies ensued, and the scientific hitting and stopping of the Marquis of Worcester, the Hon. C. W. Fitzwilliam, and Lord Kilmarnock met with loud applause, while the play of the whole of the Lancers was so determined and vigorous that the Guards could not break through their defence, but in a good ''mêlée'' [sic] close to the goal the ball was hit just outside the bottom posts. They then had a rest, and the ponies were attended to and carefully watered, and when the ball was hit off the Lancers, playing well together, drove the ball nearly to the top goal, but just missed getting it through the post. The rain now came down and made the turf heavy and slippery, and the play was rather wild, many well-intended hits being lost by the little "tits" slipping when turning sharply at their best speed. Both sides were doing their utmost to obtain the honours; but, although the ball was sent to all parts of the enclosure, and rally after rally came off, each goal being assaulted in its turn, no goal was made. The Guards now got the ball to the bottom end of the ground, and the Marquis of Worcester made a fine drive for victory; the ball, however, did not quite reach the goal, but his Lordship was well backed up by the Hon. C. Fitzwilliam, who, in the midst of a rattling ''mélée'' [sic] close on the posts, cleverly "pushed" the ball through the goal, and scored the first to the Guards, after playing lh. 20min., being the longest time that as [sic] occurred this season. After a rest and a change of ponies the second "bully" was commenced, but, after a short time, during which some fine play was exhibited by both sides, "time" was called by the judges, and the Guards won the game by one goal. Appended will be found the sides: {| class="wikitable" |+ !The Royal Horse Guards !The Lancers |- |Marquis of Worcester, |Capt. Grissell. |- |Lord C. Somerset. |Lord W. Beresford. |- |Hon. C. W. Fitzwilliam. |Mr. Moore. |- |Mr. Egerton. |Capt. Polaret. |- |Lord Kilmarnock. |Hon. E. Willoughby. |} Sides were then chosen by Viscount amentia and Mr. C. de Murrietta, and after some exciting play a goal was got by each. {| class="wikitable" |+Sides |Lord Valentia. |Mr. C. de Murietta |- |Capt. Middelton. |Marquis of Queensberry. |- |Hon. H. C. Needham. |Sir Beach Cunard. |- |Mr. Green. |Sir W. Gordon Cumming. |- |Hon. R. Neville-Nugent. |Hon. C. W. Fitzwilliam. |- |Mr. A. de Murietta. |Lord Aberdour. |- | |Mr. Powell. |} <ref>"The Polo Club." ''Hour'' 20 June 1873, Friday: 7 [of 8], Col. 6a [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002814/18730620/078/0007. Same print title and p.</ref></blockquote> July August September === October === ==== 18 October 1873, Saturday, Orange Order Events at Govan ==== This festival seems to have included some speeches and the laying of a foundation stone for an Orange Hall. The speeches were extremely anti-Catholic and bigoted.<blockquote>ORANGE FESTIVAL AT GOVAN. The third annual festival of the Govan Orangemen and their friends was held in the Govan Hall on Friday night — Br. H. A. Long [?] in the chair. After a service of tea and sake, The C<small>HAIRMAN</small> delivered an address, in which he stated, after a few preliminary remarks, that Orangeism had to be looked at from two points of view — one political and the other religious. The political one looked at the Pope and grasped the sword, while the other looked at Christ and opened its arms. One of them was for offence — that was fighting against Popery in all its varied forms, while the other was for the adoption and union of the great system of thrice-blessed Christianity. He congratulated them on living in comparatively happy days, and seeing the complete destruction of the Court of Rome and the Pope's temporal power. Not many years ago, he said, diplomatists came from all parts of the world to the Quirinal or the Vatican, but all that had now passed away, and not left a shadow behind. The chairmen then reviewed at some length the events of Italian history since 1846, and the great contrast in the treatment of priests in Rome at that time and at the present day. It must have been a bitter pill, he went on to say, for the Vatican to swallow when they heard the shouts of triumph of 25,000 Romans rejoicing that they had got free from priestly influence. Mr. Long next referred to the late visit of Victor Emmanuel to the Emperors of Austria and Germany, which he is garded as a pledge of defence against the French nation's interference in Italian affairs. The chairman referred to the immense treasures stored in the Vatican, amounting to eight hundred millions of sovereigns, and to the cramping of the power of the priesthood in Germany by Bismarck[.] The Rev. C. A. M'Kenzie, after apologising for not having any text, gave an interesting sketch of the connection of the North of Ireland with the Western Highlands of Scotland, from the middle of the sixth century, when St. Columba crossed over with his twelve followers, till the perversion of the early Culdee Church by the wife of Malcolm Canmore and her son King David. Popery, he asserted, was an invasion of comparatively recent origin, and the Roman Catholics had no right to the ancient abbeys, to which they seemed inclined to lay claim. In conclusion, he urged upon them, as good Orange-men and followers of the famous King William, of glorious memory, who inscribed on his banner "the liberties of England and the Protestant religion," never to forget that noble man; and to beware of Puseyism, which was only Popery in disguise. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. Martin, and the proceedings were enlivened with songs by a number of the brethren and their lady friends. After the soiree an assembly took place, and dowering was kept up till an early hour.— ''Glasgow News''. N<small>EW</small> O<small>RANGE</small> H<small>ALL</small>. — The foundation stone of Staffordstown [?] Orange Hall has been laid by Lady Louisa O'Neill, in presence of Lady O'Neill, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], the Hon. Edward O'Neill, and a large assemblage of Orangemen. After the ceremony, the entire party adjourned to a field adjoining, where a platform had been erected. The lodges present were — Staffordstown L.O.L., 504 [?]; Ballydonnall L.O.L., 306 [?]; Tailorstown True Blues, 544; Grange L.OL., 701; Duneane [?] L.O L., 719; Grange L.O.L., 919; Cranfield L.O.L , 705 [?]; Fenton Invincibles, L.O.L., 1104; and the Fenton Invincibles (juveniles), L.O.L., 1104. Amongst those present on the platform were — Lady O'Neil, the Hon. Edward O'Neill, M.P.; the Hon. Louisa O'Neill, Lady Caroline Howard, William J. Gwynne, Esq.; Richard Lilburn, Esq.; J. J. Carson, Esq., Mrs. Carson, and Miss Carson; Rev. J. B. Greer, Rector of Grange; Rev. J. H. Wright, bector [sic] of Portglenone; Rev. A. Gault, Vicar of Antrim; Rev. William Denham, Presbyterian minister, Duncane; Wm. J. Scully, Esq.; Messrs. John Fulton, John M Kelvey, John Nimmons. W.D.M.; Wm. M'Cullough, Hugh Nicholl, Joshua Hume, James Brooks, Charles Richardson, Robert Chesney, Robert Barton, Wm. Allen, Alexander M'Fadden, Hugh Logan. D. S Beekerstaff, Glenavy District; George French, James M'Manus, John Hume Richardson, Wm. J. Senly. Mr. Gwynne was called to the chair, and the meeting having been opened with prayer, appropriate addresses were afterwards delivered by the chairman, the Hon. Edward O'Neill, the Rev. Mr. Wright, Mr. Lilburn, and the Rev. Mr. Greer. The chairman having made a few concluding remarks, the meeting separated after having given three hearty lowly cheers for Lady O'Neill and party.<ref>"Orange Festival at Govan." ''Belfast Weekly Telegraph'' 18 October 1873, Saturday: 8 [of 8], Col. 3b–c [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003434/18731018/044/0005. Same print title and p.</ref></blockquote>November December ==1874== January February March April ===May=== ==== 1874 May, Early ==== <blockquote>As monarchists’ hopes flared, the Catholic Church, too, enjoyed a conspicuous revival. The National Assembly approved a design for a new basilica for Paris. Intended as an act of collective atonement, Sacré-Coeur was to perch atop Montmartre, immediately above where Nadar’s balloons had been launched and where the radicals’ insurrection had broken out. Excavations began in early May 1874 .... But the focus of the penance the basilica was intended to embody gradually shifted from the moral decline of French society in general to the despicable excesses of the Commune. In 1872 Archbishop Darboy’s successor claimed to have had a vision as he climbed the Butte Montmartre. The clouds dispersed, and he realized that it was there, “where the martyrs” were (he meant the murdered generals Lecomte and Clément-Thomas), that a new church should be built. And when the Assembly voted to proceed with the construction, legislators specified that its purpose was to “expiate the crimes of the Commune.”<ref name=":3" /> (464 of 667)</blockquote> ===June=== '''3 June 1874, Wednesday''': Derby Day June July August September === October === November ===December=== '''8 December 1874, Tuesday''': "CHATSWORTH, Tuesday, December 8th, 1874. — We are come to the last slide of the Chatsworth magic lantern: the Duke of Cambridge and his equerry, a funny little man called Tyrwhitt, of no particular age, in a grey wig; Lord Carlingford and Ly. Waldegrave, the Spencers, Mr. Leveson, Cavendish."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ladylucycavendish.blogspot.com/2010/12/08dec1874-chatsworth-magic-lantern.html|title=Lady Lucy Cavendish: 08Dec1874, The Chatsworth Magic Lantern|last=H|first=Denise|date=2010-12-04|website=Lady Lucy Cavendish|access-date=2025-06-18}}</ref> ==1875== Disraeli's progressive legislation for labor rights:<blockquote>In 1875, he passed a series of enlightened acts protecting labor rights, arguing they were as important as property rights. Two of the laws ensured that workers would have the same recourse as employers when contracts were breached, and made peaceful picketing legal, protecting unions from charges of conspiracy.<ref name=":4" /> (578 of 1203)</blockquote>After women who owned property were allowed by Parliament to stand for local school-board elections in 1870, "Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain — in 1865 — stood and was elected to her local board five years later."<ref name=":4" /> (199 of 1203) The relationship between Swinburne and Lord Houghton:<blockquote>...not all Lord Houghton's children appreciated the catholicity of "Papa's" taste in friends: "Swinburne (in a very excited state) came in in the evening," wrote Florence Milnes to her brother in 1875: "He is madder than ever, to my astonishment he flopped down on one knee in front of me, & announced that my hair had grown darker. This was rather embarrassing, and he is also so deaf now, which does not make it easier to talk to him."<ref name=":2">Pope-Hennessy Lord Crewe.</ref>{{rp|5}}</blockquote> January February March April ===May=== '''26 May 1875, Wednesday''': Derby Day. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended, as did a number of others of the royal family, including Princess Louise and Lorne. June July ===August=== '''August through October 1875''' Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) and son Robert Milnes toured the U.S. and Canada:<blockquote>They set off in the steamer s.s Sarmatian from Liverpool in August 1875, stopping at Ireland to pick up the usual load of emigrants bound for the U.S.A. The most interesting among the passengers was 'Mr. Butler, author of Erewhon, who is very amusing and clever though infidel,' but, although he played whist with Samuel Butler, the young man was far more interested in the Eustace Smiths (parents of his friend W. H. Smith), and in a Canadian family named Macpherson, the youngest of whose two daughters, the dark-eyed Isobel, caught his fancy: he saw them afterwards in Toronto, and when they parted she gave him two larger than carte-de-visite photographs of herself, he gave her a smaller one of himself together with the inevitable volume of his father's verse."<ref name=":2" />{{rp|10}}</blockquote>September October November December ==1876== Disraeli pushed through the Cruelty to Animals Act in order to please Queen Victoria. This act "forced researchers to demonstrate that any experiments with animals involving pain were absolutely necessary, and ensured they would be anesthetized if so."<ref name=":4" /> (679 of 1203) January February March April ===May=== '''11 May 1876''': In the midst of the Aylesford scandal, the Prince of Wales returned from a journey to Egypt and India, etc.:<blockquote>However harassed and exhausted, the Prince and Princess of Wales would put up a good show. Within an hour of their arrival home they set forth to attend a gala performance at Covent Garden Opera House. It was a brave decision to face the public and allow an immediate opportunity for demonstration. The Prince and Princess were rewarded when the audience rose to its feet to give them a standing ovation before the start of every act, as well as at the end, of Verdi's Ballo in Maschera.<ref name=":1" />{{rp|63}}</blockquote> '''27 May 1877''': Lily Langtry:<blockquote>Her big moment on May 27, 1877, when Sir Allen Young, the arctic explorer, invited her to late supper in his house, where it had been arranged that the Prince of Wales should meet her after the opera. The result was all that could have been expected. Mrs. Langtry became the Prince's first openly recognised mistress.<ref name=":1" />{{rp|69}}</blockquote>'''31 May 1877, Wednesday''': Derby Day. The Prince and Princess of Wales did not attend, as he was ill. June July August September October November December ==1877== "In 1877, unemployment was 4.7 percent; by 1879, it had risen to 11.4 percent."<ref name=":4" /> (690 of 1203) January February March April ===May=== '''30 May 1877, Wednesday''': Derby Day. June July August September October November ===December=== '''15 December 1877'''<blockquote>On Dec. 15, 1877, the Queen honoured Lord Beaconsfield, the Premier, with a visit at Hughenden Manor. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and attended by General Ponsonby and the Marchioness of Ely, left Windsor at 12.40 and proceeded by special train to High Wycombe, which was reached at 1.15. The Premier received the Queen at the station. A lofty triumphal arch spanned the entrance to the station-yard, and beneath this the royal party drove into the gaily decorated little town. The reception along the route was of the heartiest, and the drive of two miles to Hughenden was one long triumph. Lord Beaconsfield, who had preceded the party, welcomed the Queen at his own door. Lunch was served, and her Majesty remained about two hours. Before leaving she planted a memorial tree.<ref>"The Queen's Glorious Reign." ''Illustrated London News'' (London, England), Saturday, May 27, 1899; pp. 757–765?; Issue 3136. Queen's Glorious Reign [Supplement]: 762?</ref></blockquote> ==1878== January February March April May ===June=== '''5 June 1878, Wednesday''': Derby Day. July August September October ===November=== '''8 November 1878''': from the journal of George, Duke of Cambridge:<blockquote>''November'' 8. — Gave farewell diner to the Lornes; Louise and Lorne, Augusta, Mary and Francis, Arthur, Leopold, Gleichens, J. Macdonald and self, and played at Nap afterwards. It was a good and nice little dinner."<ref>Sheppard, Edgar, Ed. ''George, Duke of Cambridge: A Memoir of His Private Life, Based on the Journals and Correspondence of His Royal Highness''. Vol. 2, 1871–1904. New York: Longmans, Green, 1906. http://books.google.com/books?id=dFoMAAAAYAAJ.</ref></blockquote>December ==1879== ===January=== '''12 January 1879'''<blockquote>On 12 January 1879 Robert Milnes came of age, an event celebrated at Fryston by a tenants' ball.<ref name=":2" />{{rp|18}}</blockquote> '''28 January 1879''': Brett "Harte kicked off his tour at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham on January 28, 1879."<ref>Nissen, Alex. ''Brett Harte: Prince and Pauper''. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.</ref>{{rp|174}} February March ===April=== '''Early April 1879''' or so, probably, Bret Harte got "an invitation to dine the same evening with Arthur Sullivan and the Prince of Wales" as a dinner in Birmingham where Harte met T. Edgar Pemberton.<ref>Scharnhorst, Gary. ''Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West''. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2000.</ref>{{rp|152}} ===May=== '''28 May 1879, Wednesday''': Derby Day; the Prince and Princess of Wales attended. ===June=== '''June 1879''', Robert Milnes became engaged to "Sibyl Marcia, a daughter of a North-country baronet, Sir Frederick Graham of Netherby."<ref name=":2" />{{rp|18}} Parties must have followed. July August September October November ===December=== '''28 December 1879''': The Tay Bridge Disaster: The Tay Bridge collapsed with a train on it. The weather was very bad, with gale-force winds and rain. The ''Times'' reported that the average high temperature for the week ending December 31, 1879, was 53° F. and the low was 20° F. In his column "What the World Says" in the 21 January 1880 World, Edmund Yates writes the following:<blockquote>How am I to describe better the magnificence of the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn’s ball at Euston Lodge last month, than by calling attention to the fact that M. Carlo, the eminent Knightsbridge coiffeur, arrived early in the day to crimp and powder the lacqueys? My informant adds, however, that the curled darlings were rather the worse for the festivities towards night. Was it not enough to turn their heads in every sense of the word?<ref name=":0">Edmund Yates, "What the World Says," ''The World: A Journal for Men and Women''.</ref>{{rp|21 Jan. 1880, p. 8, col. b.}}</blockquote> '''31 December 1879''': Edmund Yates, editor of The World: A Journal for Men and Women, in his column "What the World Says," describes a private viewing at the Grosvenor Gallery:<blockquote>The private view at the Grosvenor on the last day of the year gave people something to do on a desperately wet afternoon. The artistic dresses were perhaps in greater force than ever; indeed the faces and the hair and the attitudes pursued me to my bed, and gave me many a nightmare. I suppose the plain woman of all time has had the ambition to be looked at: centuries of failure have at last been crowned with a real success. Besides the Cimabue Browns there was an interesting menagerie of real lions, artistic, literary, and clerical. The artists were numerous, and their host and hostess seemed to enjoy themselves very thoroughly. Frequenters of the picture private views have a new sensation this winter. Last season they mobbed beauty: now hideously-attired unkempt dowdiness provokes the stare. The prize for the new style seems generally awarded to a rhubarb coloured flannel Ulster and a cart-wheel beaver hat, which pervaded both the private views last week. [2 private views last week, one at the Grosvenor]<ref name=":0" />{{rp|7 Jan. 1880, p. 9}}</blockquote> The official premiere of ''The Pirates of Penzance'' occurred in New York City on 31 December 1879 at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, to establish international copyright. Gilbert and Sullivan were there with the cast. The performance was a social event: attending were Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Astor. ==Works Cited== {{reflist}} fmqor7s90z0xlxuxdns0t3e645flygm 2818332 2818326 2026-07-14T22:02:46Z Scogdill 1331941 /* February */ 2818332 wikitext text/x-wiki ==Time Line== [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1840s|1840s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1850s |1850s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1860s | 1860s]] 1870s [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1880s | 1880s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1890s | 1890s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1900s|1900s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1910s|1910s]] [[Social Victorians/Timeline/1920s-30s|1920s-30s]] ==1870== "Until 1870 all of the money women earned belonged to their husbands, and until 1882 their property did too, even after a divorce or separation."<ref name=":4" /> (698 of 1203) In 1870 Parliament debated and defeated the first bill for women's suffrage, but allowed "women who owned property ... to stand for election to school boards."<ref name=":4" /> (698–699 of 1203) "The bulk of Irish farmers did not own their land, and instead leased it from landlords, the majority of whom lived in England. In 1870, only 3 percent of agricultural holdings were occupied by owners."<ref name=":4" /> (742 of 1203) Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Arthur Sullivan were at the same dinner party in 1870? Another dinner party had as guests Charles Dickens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Tenniel and George Du Maurier. January February March April May June July August September October November December ==1871== Although Queen Victoria had opened Parliament for the first time in February 1866, when people saw her for the first time in years as her open carriage made its way, she was unpopular because it seemed she was not working. Gladstone was Prime Minister.<blockquote>Between 1871 and 1874, eighty-five Republican Clubs were founded in Britain, protesting, among other things, the "expensiveness and uselessness of the monarchy" and Bertie's "immoral example."<ref name=":4">Baird, Julia. ''Victoria the Queen, an Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire''. Random House, 2016. Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/victoria-the-queen/id953835024.</ref> (617 of 1203)</blockquote>"The 1871 Royal Commission on the Contagious Diseases Acts ... declared there was no comparison to be made between prostitutes and their clients: 'With the one sex the offence is committed as a matter of gain, with the other it is an irregular indulgence of a natural impulse.'"<ref name=":4" /> (704 of 1203) === January === Germany is united under King William I of Prussia. Julia Baird says, "At the same time, Italy captured and annexed the Papal States, which had been under the direct rule of the Pope since the 700s and had lost their protector in Napoleon III."<ref name=":4" /> (646 of 1203) ==== 4 January 1871, Wednesday ==== <blockquote>INVITATION BALL. <p>On Wednesday evening last Major Goodman and the Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards gave an invitation ball, which was held in the Drapers’ Hall (kindly placed at their disposal by the Drapers’ Company). The following ladies and gentlemen were amongst those who received invitations The Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford; the Earl and Countess of Aylesford; Lady A. N. Finch, Lord Guernsey, and the Hon. Mr. Finch; Lord and Lady Leigh and Miss Leigh; Lord and Lady Henley and Miss Henley, Miss Elwes, Lord and Lady Wrottealey, Lord and Lady Manners; C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M.P.; Captain, Mrs., and Miss Adams; E. Petre, Esq., and Lady Gwendoline Petre; J. Beech, Esq., Mrs. and Miss Beech, and Mr. Beech, jun.; Mr. and Mrs. Turner; Mr. and Mrs. Fetherstone Dilke, Mrs. and the Misses Fetherstone, Mr. Fetherstone, and Mr. Beaumont Fetherstone; Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Muntz; Captain and Mrs. Boultbee, of Knowle; Mr. C. M. Caldecott, Mrs. Caldecott, and the Misses Caldecott; the Rev. A. Fanshawe and Mrs. Fanshawe; Captain and Mrs. Battine; the Rev. S. C. Spencer Smith; the Rev. R. H. Baynes, M.A., vicar of St. Michael’s; the Rev. H. T. Harris, (Christ Church); General and Mr. Richmond Jones; Colonel F. Chaplin, and the Officers of the 4th Dragoon Guards, stationed at Northampton; Captain Thornelow, and the Officers of the Royal Artillery, at Weedon; the officers of the 4th Royal Regiment at Weedon; Mr. and Mrs. E. Wood; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wood; the Colonel and officers of the First Warwickshire Militia; Mrs. and Miss Alston, and Mr. Alston, jun., of Elmdon; Mr. and Mrs. F. Paget; Mr. and Mrs. Gulson; Captain Thomson; Captain and Mrs. Raleigh King; Mrs. Phillipson; Lord and Lady Mountgarret; the Honourable Miss Butler; Mr. and Mrs. Courtenay Lord; the Hon. Mrs. Twistleton; Mr. and the Misses Conant; Captain and Mrs. J. Marsland; Major and Mrs. Edlman; Mr. and Mrs. Astley; Mr. T. Lant, Mr. R. Lant and Mr. J. Lant, Mrs. and Miss Lant; Mr. W. T. Cavendish; Mr. and Mrs. A. Rotherham; the Marquis of Ormonde, of the first Life Guards; the Earl of Calludon, of the First Life Guards; Mrs. and the Misses Hobson; Mr P. Hobson, and Mrs. Hobson; Mr. and Mrs. Soames; Mr. and Mrs. Adderley, Sir John Rae Reid; Capt. and Mrs. Townshend, of Caldecote Hall; Lieut.-Colonel Swinfen and the Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards stationed at Leeds; Capt. Marsden and the Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards stationed at Birmingham; Colonel, Mrs., and Miss Bourne; Mr. and Mrs. Wyley Lord; Captain and Mrs. Thursby; Mr. and Mrs Morrice; Lieut.-Colonel Wirgman; Mr. and Mrs. J. Rotherham; [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]]; Mr. and Mrs. Rotherham; Mr and Mrs John Sankey and the Misses Sankey; Mrs. and the Misses Murphy; Mr. Bibby (4th Hussars), Captain Gist (7th Hussars), Mr. Gregg (8th Hussars), Mr. Hamilton (7th Dragoon Guards), Colonel Rattray, Mr and Mrs. R. Boyd, &c, &c.</p> <p>The string band of the 5th Dragoon Guards, under the direction of Mr. Sidney Jones, performed the following selection of music:— Quadrille, Barbe Bleue; Valse, Marian; Galop, Bonderbryllup; Lancers, Knight of St. Patrick; Valse, Hydropaten; Galop, Flick and Flock; Quadrille, Princess of Trebizonde; Valse, the Belle of the Ball; Galop, the Fox Hunters; Valse, the Dragoon Guards; Lancers, the Gaiety; Valse, the Beautiful Danube; Valse, Wiener Kinder; Quadrille, the Fest; Galop, the Village Rose; Valse, the Geraldine; Lancers, Merry Tunes; Galop, Barbe Bleue; Valse, Various; Galop, Glorioso.<ref>"Invitation Ball." ''Coventry Standard'' 6 January 1871, Friday: 4 [of 4], Col. 5b [of 8]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000683/18710106/100/0004. Same print title, n.p.</ref></p></blockquote> === February === ==== Birmingham Tennis Court Club Ball ==== 1871 February 17, Friday, the "bachelors of the Tennis Court Club" hosted a ball in Birmingham:<blockquote>LEAMINGTON.<p> B<small>ACHELORS'</small> B<small>ALL</small>.<p>— Last night the bachelors of the Tennis Court Club gave a grand ball at the Royal Assembly Rooms, Regent Street. The ball was one of the most brilliant of the season, nearly four hundred of the ''élite'' of the town and neighbourhood having accepted the invitation of the bachelors. The ballroom was specially fitted up for the occasion, and a splendid supper was served in the adjoining rooms, where refreshments were also provided. Coote and Tiney's band was specially engaged for the occasion, and played a selection of the newest and most popular dance music. Amongst the distinguished guests present were — The High Sheriff and Mrs. J. T. Arkwright, Lady Arbuthnott, Lord and Lady Conyers, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Viscount and Viscountess Mountgarret and the Hon. Miss Butler, Sir John and Lady Blois, Sir Thomas Biddulph, the Hon. Miss Somerville, Sir William and Lady Fairfax, the Hon. Charles L. Butler, Rev. Sir John Rae, General and Mrs. Richmond Jones, Major Eldman, Major and Mrs. James Ashton, Major and Mrs. Boothby, Colonel Ruttie, Colonel Duberly, Colonel and Mrs. Machen, Colonel Rattray, Capt. and Mrs. Kennedy, Capt. W. J. Hall, Capt. Hodge, Capt. and Mrs. Morgan, Capt. and Mrs. Pearse, Capt. Roberts, Capt. Story, Mr. and Mrs. Featherstone Dilke (Maxstoke Castle) and Miss Dixie, Mr. C. M., Miss, and Miss M. A. Caldecott (Holbrooke Grange), Mr. and Mrs. J. Dugdale (Wroxhall Abbey), Mr. E. Greaves, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Adderley (Hams Hall), and Capt. and Mrs. Hatherall. Several of the officers from the dragoons and artillery at Coventry and Birmingham were also present. The bachelors who gave the ball were twenty-eight in number.<ref>"Leamington." "District News." ''Birmingham Morning News'' 18 February 1871, Saturday: 7 [of 8, print and digital], Col. 5b [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005826/18710218/114/0007. Print and digital title are the same.</ref></p></blockquote>Another description of this same event, the Bachelors' Ball at the Leamington Spa:<blockquote>The bachelors’ ball at Leamington Spa, which took place on the 17th inst., was a greater success than ever. It was held as usual in the Assembly Rooms, which, by the bye, might be better adapted to such purposes. Theyare not so bad as far as the ball room goes, but to reach the supper room you have to make a pilgrimage up one of the steepest and most uncomfortable staircases ever seen; still, however difficult the journey, a safe arrival will repay one. The room was very prettily decorated, and most sumptuous fare provided. The following is a list of the bachelors who gave the ball: Mr Neville Bagot, Mr Ramsay Clarke, Mr Erasmus Galton, Mr C. H. Gregg (8th Hussars), Mr Ralph C. Gregg, Mr William Gillett, Mr Thomlinson Grant, Col. Hammond, R.A., Capt. Hull, Mr Wm. Harrison, Mr Pulsford Hobson, Mr Sydney Hobson, Mr F. C. Lister Kay, Viscount St. Lawrence, M.P., Capt. Maxwell Lyte (7th Dragoon Guards), Mr Richard Lant, Mr John Lant, Mr Oswald Milne, Mr W. W. Moore, Mr Thomas Norman, Mr Hamilton Osborne, Capt. John Paynter, Capt. Pullin, Mr George Rennie, Mr Alex. G. Stuart, Mr J. H. Sanders, Mr Edmund Vyner, Captain Vandeleur; and nothing that they could do was wanting to make it a most complete success. The frequenters of the subscription balls could scarcely recognise the rendezvous of their fortnightly meetings. A porch had been erected over the entrance in the parade, and the corridors all round the dancing room carpeted with crimson and prettily decorated. Banks of flowers had been arranged in every available corner of the ball room, and a number of mirrors hung against the wall reflected the gay scene. Coote and Tinney’s band played a charming selection, and dancing was kept up with much spirit to a late hour. The company was a large one, the toilettes exceedingly pretty. Among those present were Lord and Lady Conyers, Sir William and Lady Fairfax, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Viscount and Viscountess Mount-Garrett, [[Social Victorians/People/Ormonde|Hon. Miss Butler]], Sir John Rae Reid, Hon. Mary Somerville, &c.<ref>"Fashionable Entertainments." ''The Queen'' 25 February 1871, Saturday: 19 [of 24], Col. 3b [of 3]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002627/18710225/121/0019. Print title: The Queen, ''The Lady's Newspaper'', p. 133.</ref></blockquote>The ''Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser'' has a more detailed account:<blockquote>THE BACHELORS' BALL. This fashionable ''réunion'' of the ''élite'' of the town and neighbourhood took place the Assembly Rooms last evening The large room was beautifully decorated by Mr. Abotta, of Lower Bedford-street, who had the entire management of the preparations. Coote and Tinney's band occupied the orchestra, and played an admirable selection of first-class dance music. Mr. Wheal, of the Lower-parade, supplied the supper. The following gentlemen constituted the committee of management:— Mr. Neville Bagot, Mr. Ramsay Clarke, Mr. Erasmus Gallon, Mr. C. H. Gregg (8th Hussars), Mr. Ralph C. Gregg, Mr. W. Gillett, Mr. Thomlinson Grant, Colonel Hammond, R.A., Captain Hull, Mr. Wm. Harrison, Mr. Pulsford Hob- [Col. 5c–6a] son [Hobson], Mr. Sydney Hobson. Mr. F. C. Lister Kay. Viscount St. Lawrence, M.P., Captain Maxwell Lyte (7th Dragoon Guards), Mr. R. Lant, Mr. J. Lant, Mr. Oswald Milne, Mr. W. W. Moore, Mr. Thos. Norman, Mr. Hamilton Osborne, Captain John Paynter, Captain Pullin, Mr. George Rennie, Mr. Alexander G. Stuart, Mr. J. H. Sanders, Mr. Edmund Vyuer, and Captain Vandeleur. The following is a list of the company, alphabetically arranged:— Mr. Mrs. and Miss Andrew, Moseley Lodge; Major Ashton and Mr. James, 28, Lansdowne-place; Miss Ellen Andrew, Moseley Lodge; Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Arkwright, Hatton House, Hatton; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ashton, Beech-croft, Kenilworth-road; Mr. and Mrs. Adderley, Hams HalI, Warwick; Mr. and Miss Alston, Elmdon Hall, Solihull; Mr. W. and Mrs. T. Alston, Elmdon Hall, Solihull; Mrs. and Miss Ackers, ''chez'' Mountgarrett [?], 34, Lansdowne-place; Lady Arbuthnott, Shenton Hall, Nuneston; Mr. Augustus Arkwright, Hatton House; Miss Adams, 3, Warwick-place; Mr. J. Angerstein, ''chez'' Paynter Denby Villa; Mr. Astley, Hamilton-place; Captain Arthur, George Hotel, Rugby; Sir Theophilus Biddulph, Birdingbury Hall; Mrs. and the Misses (3) Bunowes, 29, Dale-street; Captain and Mrs. Battine, Eathorpe Hall; Captain and Mrs. Charles Blundell, Dun Edin Villa; Mr. George and Miss Brodie, Rowington Vicarage; Sir John and Lady Blois, 31, Clarendon-square; Mr. and Mrs. Barlow, 15, South-parade; Honourable Charles Lennox Butler, Coton House, Rugby; Mr. and Mrs. Boultbee, Springfield, Knowle; Mr. William Blundell, Dun Edin Villa; Miss K. Browne, ''chez'' Beaver Roberts, Thorn Bank; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Beech, Brandon Lodge, Coventry; Mrs. Bame, Clarendon Hotel; Major and Mrs. Boothby, Glencairn; Mr. and Mrs. Rochfort Boyd, ''chez'' Viscountess Mountgarrett; Miss Florence Booth, Huntley Lodge; Major Butter, ''chez'' Majoribanks; Mr. and Mrs. Bowyer, 1, Clarence-crescent; Mr. Philip Bame, Denby Villa; Captain R. Bedford, Knowle Lodge, Lichfield; Mr. T. Beech, jun., Brandon Hall; Miss Boothly [sic], Glencairn; Mr. Mrs, and Miss Brown Clayton, 35, Clarendon Square; Mr.. Mrs., and Miss Chambers, Enstwood [?] Lodge; Captain C. B. Cave, 9th Lancers, Kenilworth; Miss Carles, Leam-terrace; Lord and Lady Conyers, Wellesbourne; Mr. Mrs., and Miss M. A. Caldecott, Holbrook Grange, Rugby; Mr. and Mrs. Aprice Colis, Clarendon-square; Mrs. and Fitzroy Campbell, Wellesbourne; Miss Mary Browne Clayton, Clarendon-square; Captain Stapleton Colton, Kelstone, Southampton; Dr. Collins, 6, Euston-place; Mr. Chamberlayne, Stoney Thorpe, Southam; Mr S. Corbet, Jephson Villa; Mr. J. and Mr. T. Crampton, ''chez'' Knightley, Kineton; Captain and Mrs. Chichester, R.H.A. Coventry Barracks; Mr. M. Campbell, 45, Clarendon-square; Mr. and Mrs. Duppa, 11, Upper-parade; Miss Dixie, Maxstoke Castle; Mr. Beauchamp Downall, 3, Sherbourne-place; Colonel, Mrs. and Miss Duberley, 19, Clarendon-square; Mr. S. Kevill Davies, Darlaston [?] Hall, Coventry; Mr. Paunesfort Duncombe, ''chez'' Viscountess Mountgarrett; Mr. and Mrs. Dugdale, Wroxhall Abbey; Miss Davies, ''chez'' Unett, Castle Froma [?]; Major and Mrs. Edeman, Bentinck House; Miss Edith Featherston, High-street, Warwick; Sir Wm. and Lady Fairfax, 20, Lansdowne-crescent; Captain Minabull [?] Forde, ''chez'' Unett, Castle Froma; Mrs. Fane, Newbold-terrace; Captain W. Featherstone, Warwick; Mr. Beaumont Featherston, Warwick; Mr. and Mra. G. Greenway. Binswood i Cot Ugo: Mr. and Mr*. Newberry George, Orosvenor House; j Major, Mr., and Mlat Oresley, Meriden Lodge; Mr., Mrs., | and Miss Oriee, Mrs. and T. Grant, Mr*. Oakfirld*; Mr. and Mrs. Graham, Oakland*, near Birmingham; Mias Grant, Oakfiold, London; Misa Gsmaon, Clarendon-square; Mr. W. Grant, Regiment, eAes Tomlinson Grant, CUrendun-squnrc; Sir. Watson Gooch, Sherboume-placa; Miss Once Granville, eAez Haifa, Harvey Villa; Captain Geergea, Oakficlds; Mr. Edward Greaves, M.P.. Mr. and Mra. Hunt. Kenilworth-Toad j Mr. Yatee Hnnt, Acton Villa; Captain and Mra. Hath era! I. Radford Houeo; Ml** Hoey, Bt. Helen’s; Mias Hope, Milverton Lodge; Mr.and Mrs. Cmton Hcnslmw, Lanadown6 Villa; Mia* Hughes, Mrs. Clement Hoey, St. Helens; Mr*, and the Misses Hobson, Beauchamp-square; Mr. J, T. Hartley, Long Castle, Sbiffnal; Mr. T. Harter, The Cedars; Captain Hobson, (3rd Buffs), Avon Lodge; John Hetberington, Edatonc, Henley; Mr. H. Heathfield, Lady Caroline Howard, Waterloo-placo; Captain Hodge, e/iez Hobson. Bcaucbamp House; Miss Hurst, Hobaon, Beauchamp Hooao; Capt. W. J Hall, Junior United Service Club; Mias Alice Hartley, Tony Caatle, Salop; Mr. and Mias Hodgson, Clopton, Stratford; Mr. Charles Hartley, Tony Caalle, Salon; Mr, Edwin Hobson, Beauchamp Housc-mubto ; Mist Holbech, Hacket, Binswood; Mr. and Sirs. Jeatfrewn. Lanadownt- Csco; General and Mr*. Jonc*. Clorendon-aquare; Mr. Cove, rs. and Miss Junes, Hall, Warwick; Mr. Washington Jackson, eAez Harter, The Ccdare; Mr. James Jameson, Church-street; the Miwws Johnstone, Pigolt, Nowboldterrace; Mra. King Hannan, Ashley Lodge; Mis* Lizzio Holliday, Ashley Lodge; Miss Hetherington. Edston Hall; Mr. A. Hillyard, Souths®; Mr. Edgar Hibbtrt, Whitley Abbey; Major IGlh Regiment, Rugby; Mr. and Mra. Kay, Lansdownc-placo; Mr. italnigh King, Lillington; Captain and Mra. Kennedy, oth Dragoon Guards, Lillington; K*v, Mr. and Mra. Knightly, Combrooko, Mr. Kcrubsw, United Hotel, Charles-street, 6t. James: Mr. Maxwell Lyle, Magdalen College, Oxford; Misa C. Lyon. Bankficld; Mis* Lowes, Clarendon-square; Miss S. Lowndes, Rugby; Mra. Lockwood. St. Helen s; Mr. Webb Lindsay, Birmingham; Mr. and Mrs. Lucy, Charlecotc Hall; Mins Catharine Lyon, ; Mr. R. Lancaster, Bilton Grange; Mr. T. H. Lowe, Oxford; the Misses Ley (2) Clarcndon- Suare; Viscount and Viscountess Mountgarrett. Lansdowneace; Hon. Miss Butler, Lonsdownc-plac*; Mr. and Mra, Majoribauka, Kewbold Fir*; Mr. and Mrs. W, H. Milne, Beaucharap-equare; Mrand Mrs. Male, Euston-place; Mr. Her bert Molyocux, Tennis Court Club; Capt. and Mra, Morgan’ Wcllington-atrect; H. M. McCalmont, Grosvcnor-place, London; Mr. and Miss Moore, KnightcoU House, Milverton; Mr. J. M. Middleton, Clarendon-square; Mr. and Mrs. Mareland, Huntley Lodge; Mr. A. Myers. Coldstream Guards, Lillington Lodge; Mr. J. Middleton, Waltonplace; Mr. McLeon, Binswood; Mr. MacGregor, Clarendonsquaro; Miller, Kenilworth House; Misa Mntendtc, Xewbold-terrace; Mr. and Mra. Mollist, Lanadownecircus; Colonel and Mrs. Machen, Lillington ; Miss Newbie, Beochcroft; Mr. and Mra. Philip Fewroan, Warwick - road Misa Newton, Unett, Castle Froma; Captain Norton, 3rd Dragoon Guards, Beauchamp-square; Dr. and Mrs. O'Callaghan, Clarendon-square; head officers of the 2nd and Dragoon Guards, Leeds, Barracks; ditto, detachment the stb Dragoon Guards, Birmingham Barracks; ditto, ditto, Coventry Barracks ; Misa Osborne, Clareudon-squaro ; Mr. Mrs. Osborne, Clarendon-aqiisre ; Mr. snd Mrs. Oldham, Castle From* ; Miss Oromancy. Warwick-plnco ; Miss Emily Owen, and Miss Owen, Colesbill House; Mr. F. Osborne, Clarendon-square; Mr. and Mrs. Billingsley Parrey, Terrace; Mr. and Mra. Palmer, Cloreudou-square; Mr. Mra. Mis* Payntcr, Dcnby Villa; Mr. Mrs. and Misa Pigott, N'uwbold-terrace; Captain and Mra. Pearce, Marjorlwnka, Mins and Miss L. Pritchard, Upper-parade; Miss Pixrll, South-bank; Mrs. and the Misses Pullin, Watcrloo-place; Miss Louisa Hussy, Bcaucbamp-walk; Misa and Miss Ada Pcnniogtun, Thickthom, Kenilworth; Mr. Mra. and Mia* Perry, Bitbam Unuse, Avon Daasett; Mr. H. K Pullin, Junior, St. James Club; Miss Penny, Warwick-placo; Miss Phillips, CUrcndon-squoro; Mr. Pennington, Thickthurn; Mis* Henrietta Passy, Beau chump-walk ; General and Mra. Potter, Holly-walk; Mr. Mra. and Mira Beaver Roberts, Thorn-bank; Mr. Stewart Roberts, Thorn-bunk; Mr. nnd Mrs. Ruundell, Fulham Villa; Colonel and Mr*. Ruthe, Clarence-terrace; Miss Raymond, Douglas House; Mr. Rowley Robertson, South Lodge; Mr. and Mrs. Roesell, Ncwbold-terraco; Miss Ryland, Unrford Hall; Sir John Reid, Rugby; Mr. and Mr*. Worley Roberts, Oakley House; Mr. Percy Robertson and Mr. D. Robertson, Newboldtcrraco; Neville Rolfo, Dale-street; Colonel Clerk lUtlray, Lansdowne-place ; Mr. Maurice Raymond, Douglass House; Captain Roberts, Binswood; Mr. Andrew Robertson, Banbury; Miss Read, Clarendon-square; Mr. M. Russell, Leek Wootton; Mr. A.*P. Roberts, Brazenose College, Oxford; Mr., Mra.. and Miss Scholcs, Zelam Lodge; Mon. Mary Somerville, Riber House: Mira Stuart, Clarendon-square; Mr. E. Sanders, Omskirk, Lancashire ; Miss Palgrave Simpson, Princes Park, Liverpool; Miss Sroythe, Solihull Rectory; Mr. J. F. Starkey. Stratford ; Mr. and Mrs. George Stratton, Husband’s Bosworth, Rugby; Mr. Hamilton Stuart, Clarendon-square; Miss Sinclair, Dalestreet ; Mr. Sedgwick, Warwick-placa; Mr. Spencer Smith, Clarendon-square; Captain Starry • Miss Stallard, Waraeford Villa; Mr. W. Stanoombe, Magdalen College, Oxford; Mias Seymour, Warwick-read; Misa Saukcy, Bcanchamp-wolk ; Mr. Spooner, Uth Regiment, Clarendon-square; Mr. Strongitharm, Norton House; Mr. and Mrs, Molyneux Sea), Milton House; Mr. W. Sinclair. Dale-street; Mr. J. Smith, Dale-street; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Turner, Milverton Lodge; Mia* Ellen Turner, ditto; Mias Tomkinson, Dalestreet; Miss Thompson, Binswood; Miss Tuite, Warwickplace; Miss Temple, Newbold-terraco; Mr. Dudley Tarleton, tram-terrace; Mia Tucker, Dale-street; Mr. and Mra. O. Unett,Castle Frame; Mr. Gwinett, ditto; Mr. and Miss Unett, Portland-street; Mr. and Mra. White, Beaucharapwslk; Mira Wheler, Bertie-terrace; Mia E. and Mies C. Wise, Shrublands; Mr. and Mia Wollaston, Shanton Hall, Nuneaton; Mr. E. O. Whelcr, Bertie-terrace; Mr. and Mias West. Alscot Park, Stratford; Mr. and Mre. Woodmass, Moscly Lodge; Misa Ward rope, Waterloo-placo; Miss WetberaU, Woodcote; Mia Lilly and Misa Alice Wise, Culbington Orange; Mra. and Miss Wright, Lansdownecrescent; Mr. H. White. Asbfidd House; Mia Wakefield, Castle Froma. Mr. Herbert Wood, Revel; Mr. Young, Whilnosh Rectory. Invitations were also sent to the following but deeliued for family other reasons: —Lord and Lady Leigh aod Mira Lcighs (2); Mra. General Hall, the Misses Collinson, Mr., Mra, and Misa Uobaon, Avon Lodge; Lieul-Culonel and Mrs. Fiennes; Captain and Mre. Gregg; Captain and Mra. Vaughtoa; Mra. Frederick Oubbins, Mr. J. P. and Mra. Gnbbihs; Mr. Stoort; MissMnconcby; the Staunton ; Mira Galton ; Mr. Raleigh King; Sir. Edward Whelcr; Miaa Miller; Mr. Jennings; Dr. and Mra. Jepbson; Dr. end Mr*. Thomson ; Mr. and Mra. Philpot; Mr. H. and the Misses Baker; Mr. R. Read; Sir Robert and Lady Hamilton; Mr. H. C. and Mr. G. Wise; Colonel and Mira Daniel; Mr. and Mra. Bigland; Mr. and Mra. Robertson; Mias Stevenson; Mra. Osborne; Mira Harter; Mr. ond Mrs. Lister Kay; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chance; Mr., Mra. and tbo Misses Bradshaw; Lady Hardly ; Miss Stevenson Captain Torqaand Major Payntcr; Captain Tomkiusoo; Lady Haiupson; Mr. Banio; Mr. Augustus Wise; Mr. and Mra. John Mordaunt; Lady Willoughby Broke; M*. Caldecott; Mr. Hamilton and Mira Story; Mira Mabel Hurst; Mr. and Mrs. Bolton King; Mira Kato Fetberaton; Sir Charles Mordaunt, Lord and Lady Willoughby Broke; Mira Rigby; Mr*, and Mira Wise, Woodcote; Mr. E. Mr., Mrs. and Miss Pennington, Westfield; Mr., Mra. nod Mira Mackenzie; Mira Wilkins; Major Lee. Mr. and Mra. Mark Hammond, Miss P. Hughe*; Lord and Lady James Murray ; Mr. and Mra. Barker, Mr. and Mre. James West, Mira Hackctt, Mr. and Mira Walker, Mra. Harman King, Mr. Clement Hoey, Mr. Herbert Wood. Mr. Thomas Lant, the Earl of Howtb, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Bookeley and Mr. E. Steward. Fordbunt. jockey, has just concluded tbo purchase of two estates Yorkshire. The Ahtillkky.—With a of raising the provinces the additional men required by the augmentation of the army, parties of tfao Royal Artillery are onco to bo stationed various parts of kingdom. One battery left for Northampton Tuesday, and the headquarters of the lltii Brigade will proceed from Woolwich to Sheffield to-day. ExTKAOHDiNAbY Chakge I'halu.—At Marlboroughatreet on Thuraday Mr. R. G. Hopp.-Jobustono and Mr. J. SmaHpage were charged with having conspired obtain from Mr. W. 11. Milbsnkc Bums of £2.600 and A third charge of ateuliup hills of £4.600 was mentioned likely be preferred against the former defendant. Mr. Milbanke young gentleman of large fortune, who canto age December, 9. and the theory of the prosecution wn» that the defendant* had induced him accept certain pieces of paper which were afterwards manufactured into bills. Several of these had been presented for payment, and the prosecutor was sued upon them. The magistrate, after hearing the learned counsel's statement, doubted whether tho graver part of the charges could I© sustained, and the evidence of Mr. Milbanke having been taken, the case was adjourned, the defendants being liberated on their own recognizances. ldioticCut'RLTY.—For sometime back the members the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Animals have been dir'ctfng special attention treatment of cattle. The result has been the exposure of an amount of ignorant brutality quite astonishing. A case in point bns just been tried at the Buckingham Petty Sessions, where Emanuel Hall, of Lons Crendoo, farmer, was charged with cruelly torturing sheep, three boreea, and four pigs, at Long Creadon nod Shabbington. William Sinclair, one of the officer* of the society, stated that wont to the defendant's farm at Long Crendon, the Ist at., and found there in meadow, about quarter of milu from the homestead, fifty-four sheep a wretched and debilitated state. The ground was covered with snow, and there was no idcn of food about. The animals were nothing but akin and bene, and witness coaid lift any one of them with one hand. bad a conversation with the defendant, who told him that four of the sheep bad died—be supposed be said, because they bad not enough to eat. The evidence this witness and others the condition of sheep another put of the farm, tfea «ad tiu, pigs re,e.W vim deplorable state of affairs. The total amount erf the fine impoeod, including costs, was £10,135. DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE.<ref>"The Bachelors' Ball." ''Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser'' 18 February 1871, Saturday: 2 [of 6], Cols. 5c–6c [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001670/18710218/051/0002. Print title: ''Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser and Leamington Gazette'', n.p.</ref> </blockquote> === March === === April === ==== 18 April 1871 ==== <blockquote>Karl Marx “was commissioned by the General Council of the International to write a pamphlet about the Paris [377–378] Commune."<ref name=":3">Smee, Sebastian. ''Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism''. W. W. Norton, 2024.</ref>{{rp|377–378 of 667}}</blockquote> ===May=== ==== 9 May 1871, Tuesday, Queen's Drawing-Room ==== <blockquote>THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM. The Queen held a Drawing-room at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday afternoon. The Priuce of Wales, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice were present. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the other members of the royal family, entered the Throne Room shortly after three o'clock. The Queen wore a black moire antique dress with a train, long white tulle veil with a coronet of diamonds. Her Majesty also wore a necklace of diamonds and amethysts, the Riband and Star of the Order of the Garter, the Orders of Victoria and Albert and Louise of Prussia, and the Saxe Coburg and Gotha Family Order. Princess Beatrice wore a dress of white tulle over a rich white silk petticoat looped up with lilies of the valley and apple blossom; ornaments — pearls and diamonds. The presentations to Her Majesty were about 280 in number, and included the following:— Mrs Atlay, by the Countess Grey; Miss Backhouse, by her mother, Mrs Backhouse; Miss Charlesworth, by her aunt, Frances Lady Hawke; Miss Backhouse Fox, by her aunt, Mrs Backhouse; [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], by her mother, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|the Hon. Mrs Howard]]; the Hon. Gwendoline Fitz-Alan Howard, by the Duchess of Sutherland; [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Alice Howard]], by her mother, Hon. Mrs Howard; [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Louisa Howard]], by her mother, Hon. Mrs Howard; Miss Howard (of Corby), by the Hon. Mrs Philip Stourton; Miss Agnes Howard (of Corby), by the Hon. Mrs Philip Stourton; Sir Henry Ingilby, Bart., by Earl Russell; Mrs Frank Lascelles, by Lady Edward Cavendish; Mrs Gerald Liddell, marriage, by the Countess of Normanby.<ref>"Court and Official News." ''Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer'' 11 May 1871, Thursday: 3 [of 4], Col. 4c [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000686/18710511/074/0003. Same print title and p.n.</ref></blockquote> ==== 24 May 1871, Wednesday: Derby Day ==== Baron Rothschild's Favonius won. The Prince of Wales attended. ==== 25 May 1871, Thursday, Dinner Party Hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Charltons ==== <blockquote>Mr. and Mrs. Charlton, of Hesleyside, entertained at dinner, on Thursday evening, at 47, Princesgate — his Excellency the Spanish Minister, Count de Beaufort Spontin, Lord and Lady Houghton and the Hon. Miss Milnes, Lord and Lady Acton, the Hon. Lady Williamson, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Mrs. and Miss Milner Gibson, Viscount Burke, Lord Beaumont, Lord Campbell, the Master of Herries, Major Fife, &c.<ref>"Fashionable World." ''Morning Post'' 27 May 1871, Saturday: 5 [of 8], Col. 6c [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18710527/019/0005. Same print title and p.</ref></blockquote>June July August September ===October=== '''October 1871'''<blockquote>At Londesborough Lodge near Scarborough, where Lady Londesborough gave a royal house party in October 1871, not only [ 41/42 ] were the bathrooms few but the drains seeped into the drinking water. Several guests, including the Prince [of Wales] and his groom and Lord Chesterfield, contracted typhoid fever. When Chesterfield and the groom died, the doctors abandoned hope for the Prince.<ref name=":1">Leslie, Anita. ''The Marlborough House Set''. New York: Doubleday, 1973. Print.</ref>{{rp|41–42}}</blockquote> The Prince of Wales recovered on 14 December 1871. November December ==1872== January February March April ===May=== '''29 May 1872, Wednesday''': Derby Day June July ===August=== '''August 1872''': The "dance on the cruiser Ariadne" probably occurred in August 1872:<blockquote>When his [the Prince of Wales'] brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, married the attractive Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, her family made a fuss because she was not granted precedence above the Princess of Wales. Albert Edward soothed ruffled feelings by inviting the Tsarevitch and his wife Marie Feodorovna (who was Alexandra's sister) to stay for two months and be entertained at Cowes. ...<p></p> ... At the dance on the cruiser Ariadne which the Prince gave in honour of the Tsarevitch and his Grand Duchess," Lord Randolph Churchill met the 19-year-old "Miss Jennie Jerome of New York."<ref name=":1" />{{rp|42–43}}</blockquote> September October November December ==1873== === January === ==== 13 January 1873, Monday ==== ==== Ball at the Chief Secretary's Lodge ==== On Tuesday, 14 January 1873, the Dublin Evening Telegraph reported that the Marquis of Hartington's ball had taken place the evening before.<blockquote>The Marquis of Hartington gave a ball last evening at the Chief Secretary's Lodge, to their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess Spencer, who were accompanied by the Dowager Countess Spencer, the Ladies Sarah and Victoria Spencer and the Hon Robert Spencer, Lord and Lady Charles Bruce, and Major Stirling, A D C.<p> The following had the honour of receiving invitations to meet their Excellencies — The Duke of Leinster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, the Ladies Fitzgerald, the Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, Lord and Lady Edward Cavendish, the Earl of Charleville, the Lord Chancellor and Lady O'Hagan, Viscount, Viscountess, the Hon Misses, and Hon Henry Monck; the Archbishop of Dublin, the Hon Mrs and the Misses Trench; Lord Talbot de Malahide and the Hon Francis Talbot, Lord and Lady Sandhurst and Captain Bang, A D C; Lady Cloncurry, Hon Emily and Hon Mary Lawless, Viscount, Viscountess, Hon Georgiana, and Hon Beatrice [de?] Vesci; Lord and Lady Kilmaize [?], Hon Gertrude [?] Browze, Lord and Lady Ventry, Hon Norah Westenra, Lord and Lady Athlumney, Lord, Lady, and Hon D Plunket, M P; Viscountess and the Hon. Miss Netterivlle, Capt the Hon Mrs Vesey, Captain and Lady Julia Follett, Sir Arthur and Lady Olive Guiness and the Ladies White, the Hon H W L Corry, Lord and Lady and the Hon Miss O'Neill, Viscount Hawarden, the Hon Florence Maude, the Hon. Clementina Maude, the Hon Jenico and Mrs Preston, the Hon Henry Leeson, Colonel and the Hon Mrs Caulfield, Mr and the Hon Mrs Robert Hobart, Captain, Lady Mary and Miss Lindsay; Mr Ion [?] Trent Hamilton, M P; Mr Bagwell; the Hon Mrs and the Misses Bagwell, and Mr Bagwell; Colonel the Hon L and Mrs Curzon Smyth, Mr, Lady Margaret, and the Misses Stronge [?]; Mr and the Hon Mrs O'Hagan, Hon Charles Bourke, Hon Mrs Alfred and Lady Kathleen Bury, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Hon Mrs, Lady Alice, and Lady Louisa Howard]]; Captain, the Hon Mrs, and Miss Donaldson; Dr and Miss Bans, Mrs Grattan Bellew, Sir Edward and Miss Borough, Mr Arthur Cane, Sir Dominic, Lady, and Miss Corrigan; Mr Corrigan, Mr and Mrs Gustavus Cornwall and Miss Cornwall, Mr D'Arcy, M P, and Mrs D'Arcy; Mr Baron Dowse [?], and Mrs and Miss Dowse, Mr Baron Deasy and Mrs Deasy, Dr, Mrs, and Miss de Ricci; Dr and Miss Hatchell, Sir George and Lady Hudson, Mr, Mrs, and the Misses Huband; Mr Arthur Huband, Miss Caroline Huband, Mr and Mrs Arthur Hume, Dr Hughes, Mr Henry Jephsen and Miss Jephsen, Mr Kearney and the Misses Kearney, Captain Kearney, A D C; Captain Lascelles, A D C; Mr, Mrs, and Miss Kirwan; Mr Justice Lawson and Mrs Lawson, Mr and Mrs W Le Fanu, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Lentaigne; Sir George L'Estrange and the Misses L'Estrange, the Lord and Lady Mayoress, and the Misses Mackey; the Lord Chief Justice Monahan, Mrs and Miss Monahan; Sir J, Lady, and Miss Power; Mr John Talbot Power, M P; Col, Mrs, and Miss Radcliffe; the Master of the Rolls, Mrs and Miss Sullivan; Capt and Mrs Moorsom, A D C; General Sir Thomas and Lady Steel, Captain and Mrs Brownrigg, A D C, Mr Granville Milner, Capt, Mrs and Miss Talbot, Colonel, Mrs, and the Misses White; Sir John Stewart Wood, Lady and the Misses Wood; Mrs and the Misses Williams, Mr Justice Fitzgerald and the Hon Mrs Fitzgerald, Mr Fitzgerald, Mr Justice Barry and Mrs Barry, Mr Sergeant Sherlock, M P, Mrs and Miss Sherlock; Mr Sheriock, the Right Hon W H Conan, M P, and Mrs Cogan; Mr Justice Keogh and Mrs Keogh, Mr Keogh, Capt Keogh, R N; Lord Chief Baron and Miss Pigott, Dr, Mrs, and Miss Nugent; General Wardlaw, Colonel M'Kerlie, Mr Sergeant and Mrs and Miss Armstrong; Col, Mrs, and the Misses Maude; Col, Mrs, and Miss Hillier; Mr Heron, M P; Mr and Mrs Watters, Col and Mrs Wynyard, Dr and the Misses Kennedy, the Attorney General and Mrs Palles, the Solicitor General and Mrs Law, Col, Mrs, and Miss Lake; Lady and the Misses Butler, Mr Butler, Col and Mrs Colthurst Vesey, and Miss Walton; Mr, Lady Fanny and Miss Lambert; Mr E C Guinness, Mr and Mrs MMorer O'Ferrall, Mr and Mrs Leonard Morrogh, Sir Bernard and Lady Burke, Mr G and Mrs G Brooke and Miss Brooke, Mr and Mrs Roe, Mr Vance, M P, Mrs and Miss Vance; Col and Mrs Primrose, Lieut Col Ferdall [?], Col and Mrs Goodlake and Miss Alexander, Mr Alison, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Barton, Mr Justice Flanagan, Mrs and Miss Flanagan, Mer J. N. Lentaigne, Mr Johnson, Captain Harrison, Mr, Mrs, and the Misses Maturin; Mr Justice Morris and Mrs Morris, Mr and Mrs Mazlere [?] Brady, Major, Mrs, and Miss Wilkinson; Mr, Mrs, and Miss Donnelly; Mr and Mrs Cruise, Mrs Power, Mr Braon Fitzgerald and Mrs Fitzgerald, Mr Henry Yates Thompson, Mr Courtenay Boyle, Colonel Forster, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Taylor, Mr Bland and Mrs Godfrey Bland, Mr and Miss Dillon, Mr and Mrs Wallace, Mr M'Kenna, Mr Cullinane, Mr Armstrong, Mr C E [?] Dobbin, Mr J A Blake, Major and Mrs Papillon, Capt and Mrs Keane, Mr E Pretty, Mr, Mrs John L O Ferrall and Miss O'Ferrall, Mrs and Miss Walsh, Mr and Mrs R Howard Brook, Mrs and Miss Brook, Mrs and the Misses Blake, Mr and Mrs J Warren, Sir John Gray, M P, Lady, and Miss Gray; Colonel and Mrs Frank Chaplin, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Hemphill; Sir R, Lady and Miss Kane, Mrs and Miss Courtenay, Mr Arthur Courtenay, Mr G Courtenay, Mr E Hardtop, A D C; Mr Bellew, Dr and Mrs Nedley, Dr and Mrs Newell, Mr and Mrs Freeman, Mr and Mrs Geale, Captain Hutten, A D C; Mr and Mrs Adair and Miss Wadsworth, Captain and Mrs J M Benthall, Sir R, Lady, and the Misses M'Causlend [?]; Mr, Mrs, and the Misses Newell Barron; Mr Hawkins, Colonel Goodlake and the Officers of the Coldstream Guards; Captain Spain, R N, and the Officers (4) of her Majesty's ship Vanguard; Colonel Radcliffe and Officers (4), Royal Artillery; Colonel Spade and Officers (4) 1st King's Dragoon Guards; Colonel Ainslie and Officers (4), 1st Royal Dragoons; Colonel Thompson and Officers (4), 14th Hussars; Colonel Ross and Officers (4), 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade; Colonel Hawkins and Officers (4), Royal Engineers; Colonel Gloster and Officers (4), 97th Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell and Officers (4), 13th Regiment.<ref>"Fashionable." ''Dublin Evening Telegraph'' 14 January 1873, Tuesday: 4 [of 4], Col. 7a–b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002093/18730114/044/0004. Print title ''The Evening Telegraph'', n.p.</ref> </blockquote> ==== 29 January 1873, Wednesday ==== ==== Drawingroom at Dublin Castle ==== The women listed in the 2nd paragraph, about the members of the Household who were present, were listed as accompanying their husband or father, not as working members of the Household.<blockquote>DRWNINGROOM [sic] AT DUBLIN CASTLE. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess Spencer held the first Drawingroom for the season at Dublin Castle on Wednesday evening. Shortly after nine o’clock their Excellencies entered the Throne Room, attended by the following members of the Household:— The under Secretary — Thomas H. Burke, Esq. The Private Secretary — Henry Y. Thompson, Esq; Miss Thompson. The State Steward — Colonel the Hon. Luke White. Comptroller — Lieutenant-Colonel Caulfield; Hon. Mrs. Caulfield. Gentleman Usher — Major the Hon. E. Boyle; Hon. Mrs E. Boyle. Chamberlain — Hon. H. Leeson. Master of the Horse — Lieutenant-Colonel Forster. The Gentleman in Waiting — Lieutenant-Colonel J. M'Donnell and Hon. Mrs. M‘Donnell. The Gentlemen at Large — Lowery Balfour, Esq, Captain Donaldson, and Hon. Mr. Donaldson. Aides-de-Camp — Major Sterling, Lieutenant the Hon. V. Lyttelton, Captain Lascelles, Captain Bridges, Capt. F. Seymour, Captain Kearney, Captain Chaplain, V. C; Lieutenant Hartopp, Lieutenant Wynne Finch, Lieutenant A. Egerton, Captain Hutton, Captain Wood. The Physician in Ordinary — Thomas Nedley, Esq, M.D. The Surgeon in Ordinary — George Hatchell, Esq., M.D., and Miss Hatohell. The Surgeon to the Household — James S. Hughes, Esq. MD. Her Excellency’s Pages of Honour — Hon. J. Somerville, and Mr. Charles White. There was very large company present among them being the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress; [sic] The Lord Chancellor and Lady O’Hagan. The Lord Chief Justice, and Mrs. Whithside. The Lord Chief Baron and Mrs. Pigot, the Attorney-General and Mrs. Palles, the Solicitor-General and Mrs. Law. Major-General Sir Thomas Steele, K.C.B., and Lady Steele (presented.) Captain Brownrigg, A.D.C., and Mrs. Studholm Brownrigg. Colonel Primrose, C.S.I., Deputy Adjutant-General. Colonel the Hon. Leicester Smith, C.B., Deputy Quartermaster-General, and the Hon. Mrs. Leicester Smith. Mr. Porter, Surgeon in Ordinary to the Qneen in Ireland, and Mrs. Porter. Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, Lady Alice Fitzgerald, and Lady Eva Fitzgerald. Marquis of Headfort, Lady Adelaide Taylour, Lady Florence Taylour. Marquis of Drogheda and Marchioness of Drogheda. Earl and Countess of Shannon, Earl of Kenmare, Countess of Charlemont, Anna Countess of Kingston, Dowager Countess Spencer and Lady Victoria Spencer, Viscount and the Viscountess Monck, and the Hon. Frances Monck, Viscountess Gormanstnwn, Viscountess Netterville, Lord Talbot de Malahide and Hon. Frances Talbot, Lord and Lady Lisgar, Lord Crofton, Lord and Lady Plunket, Lady Sandhurst, Lady Athlumney, Lady Hastings, Lady Cloncurry, Lady Colthurst, Lady Louisa Tenison and Lieutenant-Colonel Tenison, Lady Barbara Chetwynd Stapylton, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Louisa Howard]], [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Lady Julia Follett and Captain Follett, Lady Georgina Croker, Lady Catherine Bury, Lady Steward Wood, ['''Col. 3c–4a'''] Miss Stewart Wood, and Miss Elvyn Stewart Wood, The Right Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald and the Hon. Mrs. Fitzgerald, the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Morris, the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Barry, and Mrs. Barry, the Right Hon. Baron Dowse, Mrs. Dowse, and Miss Dowse, Judge Woulfe Flanagan, Mrs. and Miss Woulfe Flanagan. The Provost of Trinity College and Mrs. Lloyd, the Moderator of the General Assembly. Colonfel Frederick Maude, V.C., C.B., Deputy Inspector General of Auxiliary Forces; Mrs. Frederick Maude, and Miss Ada Cecil Maude (presented). Colonel Lake, C. B. Commissioner of Police, and Miss Lake. LADIES’ DRESSES. Her Excellency the Countess Spencer — Train and corsage of rich Lyons peon velvet, lined poult de foie, trimmed bouillones of tulle illusion to match, nœuds of satin and plumes of peacock, and ostrich feathers, same shade; corsage, Raphael, trimmed band of peon velvet, beautifully embroidered in self colours, plumes of ostrich and peon to correspond; petticoat of richest satin antique, with jupes of tulle, beautifully trimmed three broad plisses, with plumes of peacock's tail, headed with shells of velvet all to match train in colour; at sides and backs stoles and broad sashes of peon velvet, beautifully embroidered in self colour; across body of dress was band of velvet, worn like sash; studded with the most magnificent brilliants. Headdress a tiara of diamonds and peon plume; ornaments, diamonds. The Lady Mayoress, Mansion House — Train and corsage of richest black satin raye, lined blue glace, and trimmed plisses of blue poult de soie; corsage, trimmed a draperie of tulle, with fall of very fine Irish point lace; petticoat of rich blue poult de joie, with volants of Irish point lace, and tulle plaitings, headed blue satin. Head-dress, coart plume, Irish point lace; ornaments, diamonds. Hon. Mrs. Caulfield, Dublin Castle — Train and corsage of the richest black gros de Suez, lined black taffeta, tastefully trimmed; bouillones of tulle and silver wheat; corsage, trimmed a draperie of tulle, silver wheat, and silver bullion fringe, with a fall fine Brussels point; petticoat of rich black glace under jupe of chantilly; trimmed tablier tulle and satin shells, tunic to correspond, looped black velvet bows, and bouquets of silver wheat. Headdress, court plume, point lappets and diamonds; ornaments, diamonds. Mrs. Whiteside, Mountjoy-square — Train and corsage of rich pink satin antique, lined with white Florence, beautifully trimmed with bias and nœuds of satin, and a volant of very fine Brussels point; corsage, trimmed draperie of tulle and satin, with fall point lace; petticoat of white satin antique, with jupe of Alencon tulle, tulle plaitings edged with folds of pink satin, and volant fine Brussels point. Headdress. Lady Butler, Ballintemple, county Carlow — Train and corsage of richest white satin, trimmed bouillones, and pouffs of white tulle de chene, festooned with bouquets of pink laburnum, set rosettes of white tulle de chene; petticoat of white Bruxelles net, trimmed with roulleax of white satin, and bouilloned the waist en pompadour. Headdress, court plume, lappets, and feathers; ornaments, diamonds and pearls. Miss Wynn, Wynstay, Roebuck — Train and corsage of rouleaux satin, trimmed with pouffs and bouillones of white tulle de chene, and edged with richest blonde lace; petticoat lavender glace, trimmed with rings and frillings of tulle de chene and rich flounce of blonde lace. Headdress, Court plume and lappets ; ornaments, tiara of diamonds. The Countess of Shannon, Castlemartyr, county Cork — Train of richest white satin, lined marceline, &c., trimmed with white tulle, studded with pearls, and volantes of real Brussels lace; jupe of richest white satin, with tunic of finest real Brussels lace, looped up with chatelaine of pink roses; corsage, a la gracque trimmed en suite. Headdress, plumes of feathers with lappets ; ornaments, diamonds. Mrs. Murphy, Mount Loftus — Train and corsage of rich mauve gros grain, lined with white satin, and trimmed with Carrickmacross lace and bias folds of silk; petticoat of mauve glace, with mauve tulle, jupe, trimmed en tablier with Carrickmacross lace, and flounce and buillons of tulle. Headdress — Lappets, feathers, and tiara of diamonds. Ornaments, pearls and diamonds. Mrs. Maxwell, Cruiserath, Clonsilla — Train and corsage of rich ruby velvet, lined with rich white silk, and trimmed with Brussels lace, centre of train trimmed with bows of moire ribbon, the train looped at the side with an echarpe of wide ribbon; corsage to correspond; of rich gros de Suez silk, trimmed with white Brussels lace, flounces headed with ruche of green tulle illusion, studded with green flowers, front trimmed en tablier. Headdeess [sic] — Court plume, Brussels lace lappets, and diadem of diamonds. Miss Pigot, 15, Merrion-square, East — Train with pouffe of magnificent black silk, lined with white marcelline, beautifully trimmed with broad bias of lavender satin, ruching of lavender net and Spanish blonde; sash of lavender satin, fastening side under pouffe; corsage, Louis Quinze; petticoat of white poult de soie, with overskirt of white Brussels net, trimmed en tablier, with platings of lavender net and satin, fastening at side, with nœuds of lavender satin. Coiffure — Court plume and tulle veil. Ornaments — Diamonds. Miss Jackson, Ahanesk, Midleton, Co. Cork — Presentation train, with pouffe and sash of richest white faye silk, lined with marcelline, tastefully trimmed with fluffed plaiting of white silk and satin; corsage, Pompadour style, trimmed with white satin and tulle; jupon of white poult de soie, with overskirt of white tulle, trimmed with alternate plaitings of tulle and white satin. Coiffure — Court plume and tulle veil. Ornaments — Diamonds and pearls. Mrs. Safford, 97th Regiment — Train and corsage of rich maize satin, lined, richly trimmed with tulle ruche, true-lover’s knots, and nœuds de velour noir, from agrafe; corsage, garnier richment de danlette ancienne; jupe, tulle, maize ruche, richly trimmed to match train. Headdress — Ostrich feather and tulle lappets. Ornaments — Diamonds and pearls. Miss Mackey—Train and corsage of the richest maize poult de soi, lined with Florence silk, and elegantly trimmed with bouffants of tulle, illusion, and guirlands of cherita leaves; corsage trimmed to correspond; jupe of white tarlatane buillonee and wreaths of cherita leaves. Coiffure — Maize feather and long tulle veil. Ornaments — Silver.<ref>"Drawingroom at Dublin Castle." ''Cork Constitution'' 31 January 1873, Friday: 3 [of 4], Col. 3c–4b [of 7]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001646/18730131/056/0003. Print title: ''The Constitution; Or Cork Advertiser'', n.p.</ref></blockquote>February March April ===May=== '''28 May 1873, Wednesday''': Derby Day === June === ==== 19 June 1873, Thursday, Polo Match Between Officers of the Royal Horse Guards and Officers of the 9th Lancers ==== <blockquote>THE POLO CLUB. Although the weather was dull and gloomy yesterday, there was a large company at the club grounds to witness the match between the officers of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) and the officers of the 9th Lancers. A number of carriages surrounded the enclosure, and many ladies were present, among whom were the Marchioness of Waterford, Viscountess Middelton, Lady Philippa Stanhope, the Countess of Mayo, the Hon. Miss Brodrick, Lady Little, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Louisa Howard]], [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], Lady Harriet Duncombe, Miss Duncoinbe and Miss E. Duncombe, the Hon. Mrs. O'Grady and Miss O'Grady, Lady Knollys and Miss Knollys, the Dowager Lady Craven, Lady Grey de Wilton, Lady Fanny Fitzwigram, Lady Petre, Lady M. Egerton, Misses E. and G. Egerton, the Countess of Gleichen, Lady C. Brineman, Lady Campbell, Lady Emily Ormsby Gore, the Countess of Coventry, Lady Maria Ponsonby, and Lady Henry Somerset. Just before 4 o'clock the competitors took up their stations at the goals, the Hon. H. Boscawen and Sir Beach Cunard being the judges. The Guards, having choice of stations, elected to play from the Pavilion goal, although there was a strong wind blowing against them. Play was called for the first "bully," and when the ball was tossed into the centre of the ground the advanced guard of both sides missed their blows; and, this brought the others close up, and after some spirited hitting the Guards got the ball nearly to the bottom goal, where it was knocked out of bounds three or four times. Each time it was returned into play some severe rallies ensued, and the scientific hitting and stopping of the Marquis of Worcester, the Hon. C. W. Fitzwilliam, and Lord Kilmarnock met with loud applause, while the play of the whole of the Lancers was so determined and vigorous that the Guards could not break through their defence, but in a good ''mêlée'' [sic] close to the goal the ball was hit just outside the bottom posts. They then had a rest, and the ponies were attended to and carefully watered, and when the ball was hit off the Lancers, playing well together, drove the ball nearly to the top goal, but just missed getting it through the post. The rain now came down and made the turf heavy and slippery, and the play was rather wild, many well-intended hits being lost by the little "tits" slipping when turning sharply at their best speed. Both sides were doing their utmost to obtain the honours; but, although the ball was sent to all parts of the enclosure, and rally after rally came off, each goal being assaulted in its turn, no goal was made. The Guards now got the ball to the bottom end of the ground, and the Marquis of Worcester made a fine drive for victory; the ball, however, did not quite reach the goal, but his Lordship was well backed up by the Hon. C. Fitzwilliam, who, in the midst of a rattling ''mélée'' [sic] close on the posts, cleverly "pushed" the ball through the goal, and scored the first to the Guards, after playing lh. 20min., being the longest time that as [sic] occurred this season. After a rest and a change of ponies the second "bully" was commenced, but, after a short time, during which some fine play was exhibited by both sides, "time" was called by the judges, and the Guards won the game by one goal. Appended will be found the sides: {| class="wikitable" |+ !The Royal Horse Guards !The Lancers |- |Marquis of Worcester, |Capt. Grissell. |- |Lord C. Somerset. |Lord W. Beresford. |- |Hon. C. W. Fitzwilliam. |Mr. Moore. |- |Mr. Egerton. |Capt. Polaret. |- |Lord Kilmarnock. |Hon. E. Willoughby. |} Sides were then chosen by Viscount amentia and Mr. C. de Murrietta, and after some exciting play a goal was got by each. {| class="wikitable" |+Sides |Lord Valentia. |Mr. C. de Murietta |- |Capt. Middelton. |Marquis of Queensberry. |- |Hon. H. C. Needham. |Sir Beach Cunard. |- |Mr. Green. |Sir W. Gordon Cumming. |- |Hon. R. Neville-Nugent. |Hon. C. W. Fitzwilliam. |- |Mr. A. de Murietta. |Lord Aberdour. |- | |Mr. Powell. |} <ref>"The Polo Club." ''Hour'' 20 June 1873, Friday: 7 [of 8], Col. 6a [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002814/18730620/078/0007. Same print title and p.</ref></blockquote> July August September === October === ==== 18 October 1873, Saturday, Orange Order Events at Govan ==== This festival seems to have included some speeches and the laying of a foundation stone for an Orange Hall. The speeches were extremely anti-Catholic and bigoted.<blockquote>ORANGE FESTIVAL AT GOVAN. The third annual festival of the Govan Orangemen and their friends was held in the Govan Hall on Friday night — Br. H. A. Long [?] in the chair. After a service of tea and sake, The C<small>HAIRMAN</small> delivered an address, in which he stated, after a few preliminary remarks, that Orangeism had to be looked at from two points of view — one political and the other religious. The political one looked at the Pope and grasped the sword, while the other looked at Christ and opened its arms. One of them was for offence — that was fighting against Popery in all its varied forms, while the other was for the adoption and union of the great system of thrice-blessed Christianity. He congratulated them on living in comparatively happy days, and seeing the complete destruction of the Court of Rome and the Pope's temporal power. Not many years ago, he said, diplomatists came from all parts of the world to the Quirinal or the Vatican, but all that had now passed away, and not left a shadow behind. The chairmen then reviewed at some length the events of Italian history since 1846, and the great contrast in the treatment of priests in Rome at that time and at the present day. It must have been a bitter pill, he went on to say, for the Vatican to swallow when they heard the shouts of triumph of 25,000 Romans rejoicing that they had got free from priestly influence. Mr. Long next referred to the late visit of Victor Emmanuel to the Emperors of Austria and Germany, which he is garded as a pledge of defence against the French nation's interference in Italian affairs. The chairman referred to the immense treasures stored in the Vatican, amounting to eight hundred millions of sovereigns, and to the cramping of the power of the priesthood in Germany by Bismarck[.] The Rev. C. A. M'Kenzie, after apologising for not having any text, gave an interesting sketch of the connection of the North of Ireland with the Western Highlands of Scotland, from the middle of the sixth century, when St. Columba crossed over with his twelve followers, till the perversion of the early Culdee Church by the wife of Malcolm Canmore and her son King David. Popery, he asserted, was an invasion of comparatively recent origin, and the Roman Catholics had no right to the ancient abbeys, to which they seemed inclined to lay claim. In conclusion, he urged upon them, as good Orange-men and followers of the famous King William, of glorious memory, who inscribed on his banner "the liberties of England and the Protestant religion," never to forget that noble man; and to beware of Puseyism, which was only Popery in disguise. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. Martin, and the proceedings were enlivened with songs by a number of the brethren and their lady friends. After the soiree an assembly took place, and dowering was kept up till an early hour.— ''Glasgow News''. N<small>EW</small> O<small>RANGE</small> H<small>ALL</small>. — The foundation stone of Staffordstown [?] Orange Hall has been laid by Lady Louisa O'Neill, in presence of Lady O'Neill, [[Social Victorians/People/Abercorn|Lady Caroline Howard]], the Hon. Edward O'Neill, and a large assemblage of Orangemen. After the ceremony, the entire party adjourned to a field adjoining, where a platform had been erected. The lodges present were — Staffordstown L.O.L., 504 [?]; Ballydonnall L.O.L., 306 [?]; Tailorstown True Blues, 544; Grange L.OL., 701; Duneane [?] L.O L., 719; Grange L.O.L., 919; Cranfield L.O.L , 705 [?]; Fenton Invincibles, L.O.L., 1104; and the Fenton Invincibles (juveniles), L.O.L., 1104. Amongst those present on the platform were — Lady O'Neil, the Hon. Edward O'Neill, M.P.; the Hon. Louisa O'Neill, Lady Caroline Howard, William J. Gwynne, Esq.; Richard Lilburn, Esq.; J. J. Carson, Esq., Mrs. Carson, and Miss Carson; Rev. J. B. Greer, Rector of Grange; Rev. J. H. Wright, bector [sic] of Portglenone; Rev. A. Gault, Vicar of Antrim; Rev. William Denham, Presbyterian minister, Duncane; Wm. J. Scully, Esq.; Messrs. John Fulton, John M Kelvey, John Nimmons. W.D.M.; Wm. M'Cullough, Hugh Nicholl, Joshua Hume, James Brooks, Charles Richardson, Robert Chesney, Robert Barton, Wm. Allen, Alexander M'Fadden, Hugh Logan. D. S Beekerstaff, Glenavy District; George French, James M'Manus, John Hume Richardson, Wm. J. Senly. Mr. Gwynne was called to the chair, and the meeting having been opened with prayer, appropriate addresses were afterwards delivered by the chairman, the Hon. Edward O'Neill, the Rev. Mr. Wright, Mr. Lilburn, and the Rev. Mr. Greer. The chairman having made a few concluding remarks, the meeting separated after having given three hearty lowly cheers for Lady O'Neill and party.<ref>"Orange Festival at Govan." ''Belfast Weekly Telegraph'' 18 October 1873, Saturday: 8 [of 8], Col. 3b–c [of 6]. ''British Newspaper Archive'' https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003434/18731018/044/0005. Same print title and p.</ref></blockquote>November December ==1874== January February March April ===May=== ==== 1874 May, Early ==== <blockquote>As monarchists’ hopes flared, the Catholic Church, too, enjoyed a conspicuous revival. The National Assembly approved a design for a new basilica for Paris. Intended as an act of collective atonement, Sacré-Coeur was to perch atop Montmartre, immediately above where Nadar’s balloons had been launched and where the radicals’ insurrection had broken out. Excavations began in early May 1874 .... But the focus of the penance the basilica was intended to embody gradually shifted from the moral decline of French society in general to the despicable excesses of the Commune. In 1872 Archbishop Darboy’s successor claimed to have had a vision as he climbed the Butte Montmartre. The clouds dispersed, and he realized that it was there, “where the martyrs” were (he meant the murdered generals Lecomte and Clément-Thomas), that a new church should be built. And when the Assembly voted to proceed with the construction, legislators specified that its purpose was to “expiate the crimes of the Commune.”<ref name=":3" /> (464 of 667)</blockquote> ===June=== '''3 June 1874, Wednesday''': Derby Day June July August September === October === November ===December=== '''8 December 1874, Tuesday''': "CHATSWORTH, Tuesday, December 8th, 1874. — We are come to the last slide of the Chatsworth magic lantern: the Duke of Cambridge and his equerry, a funny little man called Tyrwhitt, of no particular age, in a grey wig; Lord Carlingford and Ly. Waldegrave, the Spencers, Mr. Leveson, Cavendish."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ladylucycavendish.blogspot.com/2010/12/08dec1874-chatsworth-magic-lantern.html|title=Lady Lucy Cavendish: 08Dec1874, The Chatsworth Magic Lantern|last=H|first=Denise|date=2010-12-04|website=Lady Lucy Cavendish|access-date=2025-06-18}}</ref> ==1875== Disraeli's progressive legislation for labor rights:<blockquote>In 1875, he passed a series of enlightened acts protecting labor rights, arguing they were as important as property rights. Two of the laws ensured that workers would have the same recourse as employers when contracts were breached, and made peaceful picketing legal, protecting unions from charges of conspiracy.<ref name=":4" /> (578 of 1203)</blockquote>After women who owned property were allowed by Parliament to stand for local school-board elections in 1870, "Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain — in 1865 — stood and was elected to her local board five years later."<ref name=":4" /> (199 of 1203) The relationship between Swinburne and Lord Houghton:<blockquote>...not all Lord Houghton's children appreciated the catholicity of "Papa's" taste in friends: "Swinburne (in a very excited state) came in in the evening," wrote Florence Milnes to her brother in 1875: "He is madder than ever, to my astonishment he flopped down on one knee in front of me, & announced that my hair had grown darker. This was rather embarrassing, and he is also so deaf now, which does not make it easier to talk to him."<ref name=":2">Pope-Hennessy Lord Crewe.</ref>{{rp|5}}</blockquote> January February March April ===May=== '''26 May 1875, Wednesday''': Derby Day. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended, as did a number of others of the royal family, including Princess Louise and Lorne. June July ===August=== '''August through October 1875''' Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) and son Robert Milnes toured the U.S. and Canada:<blockquote>They set off in the steamer s.s Sarmatian from Liverpool in August 1875, stopping at Ireland to pick up the usual load of emigrants bound for the U.S.A. The most interesting among the passengers was 'Mr. Butler, author of Erewhon, who is very amusing and clever though infidel,' but, although he played whist with Samuel Butler, the young man was far more interested in the Eustace Smiths (parents of his friend W. H. Smith), and in a Canadian family named Macpherson, the youngest of whose two daughters, the dark-eyed Isobel, caught his fancy: he saw them afterwards in Toronto, and when they parted she gave him two larger than carte-de-visite photographs of herself, he gave her a smaller one of himself together with the inevitable volume of his father's verse."<ref name=":2" />{{rp|10}}</blockquote>September October November December ==1876== Disraeli pushed through the Cruelty to Animals Act in order to please Queen Victoria. This act "forced researchers to demonstrate that any experiments with animals involving pain were absolutely necessary, and ensured they would be anesthetized if so."<ref name=":4" /> (679 of 1203) January February March April ===May=== '''11 May 1876''': In the midst of the Aylesford scandal, the Prince of Wales returned from a journey to Egypt and India, etc.:<blockquote>However harassed and exhausted, the Prince and Princess of Wales would put up a good show. Within an hour of their arrival home they set forth to attend a gala performance at Covent Garden Opera House. It was a brave decision to face the public and allow an immediate opportunity for demonstration. The Prince and Princess were rewarded when the audience rose to its feet to give them a standing ovation before the start of every act, as well as at the end, of Verdi's Ballo in Maschera.<ref name=":1" />{{rp|63}}</blockquote> '''27 May 1877''': Lily Langtry:<blockquote>Her big moment on May 27, 1877, when Sir Allen Young, the arctic explorer, invited her to late supper in his house, where it had been arranged that the Prince of Wales should meet her after the opera. The result was all that could have been expected. Mrs. Langtry became the Prince's first openly recognised mistress.<ref name=":1" />{{rp|69}}</blockquote>'''31 May 1877, Wednesday''': Derby Day. The Prince and Princess of Wales did not attend, as he was ill. June July August September October November December ==1877== "In 1877, unemployment was 4.7 percent; by 1879, it had risen to 11.4 percent."<ref name=":4" /> (690 of 1203) January February March April ===May=== '''30 May 1877, Wednesday''': Derby Day. June July August September October November ===December=== '''15 December 1877'''<blockquote>On Dec. 15, 1877, the Queen honoured Lord Beaconsfield, the Premier, with a visit at Hughenden Manor. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and attended by General Ponsonby and the Marchioness of Ely, left Windsor at 12.40 and proceeded by special train to High Wycombe, which was reached at 1.15. The Premier received the Queen at the station. A lofty triumphal arch spanned the entrance to the station-yard, and beneath this the royal party drove into the gaily decorated little town. The reception along the route was of the heartiest, and the drive of two miles to Hughenden was one long triumph. Lord Beaconsfield, who had preceded the party, welcomed the Queen at his own door. Lunch was served, and her Majesty remained about two hours. Before leaving she planted a memorial tree.<ref>"The Queen's Glorious Reign." ''Illustrated London News'' (London, England), Saturday, May 27, 1899; pp. 757–765?; Issue 3136. Queen's Glorious Reign [Supplement]: 762?</ref></blockquote> ==1878== January February March April May ===June=== '''5 June 1878, Wednesday''': Derby Day. July August September October ===November=== '''8 November 1878''': from the journal of George, Duke of Cambridge:<blockquote>''November'' 8. — Gave farewell diner to the Lornes; Louise and Lorne, Augusta, Mary and Francis, Arthur, Leopold, Gleichens, J. Macdonald and self, and played at Nap afterwards. It was a good and nice little dinner."<ref>Sheppard, Edgar, Ed. ''George, Duke of Cambridge: A Memoir of His Private Life, Based on the Journals and Correspondence of His Royal Highness''. Vol. 2, 1871–1904. New York: Longmans, Green, 1906. http://books.google.com/books?id=dFoMAAAAYAAJ.</ref></blockquote>December ==1879== ===January=== '''12 January 1879'''<blockquote>On 12 January 1879 Robert Milnes came of age, an event celebrated at Fryston by a tenants' ball.<ref name=":2" />{{rp|18}}</blockquote> '''28 January 1879''': Brett "Harte kicked off his tour at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham on January 28, 1879."<ref>Nissen, Alex. ''Brett Harte: Prince and Pauper''. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.</ref>{{rp|174}} February March ===April=== '''Early April 1879''' or so, probably, Bret Harte got "an invitation to dine the same evening with Arthur Sullivan and the Prince of Wales" as a dinner in Birmingham where Harte met T. Edgar Pemberton.<ref>Scharnhorst, Gary. ''Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West''. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2000.</ref>{{rp|152}} ===May=== '''28 May 1879, Wednesday''': Derby Day; the Prince and Princess of Wales attended. ===June=== '''June 1879''', Robert Milnes became engaged to "Sibyl Marcia, a daughter of a North-country baronet, Sir Frederick Graham of Netherby."<ref name=":2" />{{rp|18}} Parties must have followed. July August September October November ===December=== '''28 December 1879''': The Tay Bridge Disaster: The Tay Bridge collapsed with a train on it. The weather was very bad, with gale-force winds and rain. The ''Times'' reported that the average high temperature for the week ending December 31, 1879, was 53° F. and the low was 20° F. In his column "What the World Says" in the 21 January 1880 World, Edmund Yates writes the following:<blockquote>How am I to describe better the magnificence of the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn’s ball at Euston Lodge last month, than by calling attention to the fact that M. Carlo, the eminent Knightsbridge coiffeur, arrived early in the day to crimp and powder the lacqueys? My informant adds, however, that the curled darlings were rather the worse for the festivities towards night. Was it not enough to turn their heads in every sense of the word?<ref name=":0">Edmund Yates, "What the World Says," ''The World: A Journal for Men and Women''.</ref>{{rp|21 Jan. 1880, p. 8, col. b.}}</blockquote> '''31 December 1879''': Edmund Yates, editor of The World: A Journal for Men and Women, in his column "What the World Says," describes a private viewing at the Grosvenor Gallery:<blockquote>The private view at the Grosvenor on the last day of the year gave people something to do on a desperately wet afternoon. The artistic dresses were perhaps in greater force than ever; indeed the faces and the hair and the attitudes pursued me to my bed, and gave me many a nightmare. I suppose the plain woman of all time has had the ambition to be looked at: centuries of failure have at last been crowned with a real success. Besides the Cimabue Browns there was an interesting menagerie of real lions, artistic, literary, and clerical. The artists were numerous, and their host and hostess seemed to enjoy themselves very thoroughly. Frequenters of the picture private views have a new sensation this winter. Last season they mobbed beauty: now hideously-attired unkempt dowdiness provokes the stare. The prize for the new style seems generally awarded to a rhubarb coloured flannel Ulster and a cart-wheel beaver hat, which pervaded both the private views last week. [2 private views last week, one at the Grosvenor]<ref name=":0" />{{rp|7 Jan. 1880, p. 9}}</blockquote> The official premiere of ''The Pirates of Penzance'' occurred in New York City on 31 December 1879 at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, to establish international copyright. Gilbert and Sullivan were there with the cast. The performance was a social event: attending were Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Astor. ==Works Cited== {{reflist}} gsd0w84p5c5tfu1set4jvkd39va9ayh C language in plain view 0 285380 2818309 2818234 2026-07-14T13:51:25Z Young1lim 21186 /* Applications */ 2818309 wikitext text/x-wiki === Introduction === * Overview ([[Media:C01.Intro1.Overview.1.A.20170925.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C01.Intro1.Overview.1.B.20170901.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:C01.Intro1.Overview.1.C.20170904.pdf |C.pdf]]) * Number System ([[Media:C01.Intro2.Number.1.A.20171023.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C01.Intro2.Number.1.B.20170909.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:C01.Intro2.Number.1.C.20170914.pdf |C.pdf]]) * Memory System ([[Media:C01.Intro2.Memory.1.A.20170907.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C01.Intro3.Memory.1.B.20170909.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:C01.Intro3.Memory.1.C.20170914.pdf |C.pdf]]) === Handling Repetition === * Control ([[Media:C02.Repeat1.Control.1.A.20170925.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C02.Repeat1.Control.1.B.20170918.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:C02.Repeat1.Control.1.C.20170926.pdf |C.pdf]]) * Loop ([[Media:C02.Repeat2.Loop.1.A.20170925.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C02.Repeat2.Loop.1.B.20170918.pdf |B.pdf]]) === Handling a Big Work === * Function Overview ([[Media:C03.Func1.Overview.1.A.20171030.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C03.Func1.Oerview.1.B.20161022.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Functions & Variables ([[Media:C03.Func2.Variable.1.A.20161222.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C03.Func2.Variable.1.B.20161222.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Functions & Pointers ([[Media:C03.Func3.Pointer.1.A.20161122.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C03.Func3.Pointer.1.B.20161122.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Functions & Recursions ([[Media:C03.Func4.Recursion.1.A.20161214.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C03.Func4.Recursion.1.B.20161214.pdf |B.pdf]]) === Handling Series of Data === ==== Background ==== * Background ([[Media:C04.Series0.Background.1.A.20180727.pdf |A.pdf]]) ==== Basics ==== * Pointers ([[Media:C04.S1.Pointer.1A.20240524.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C04.Series2.Pointer.1.B.20161115.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Arrays ([[Media:C04.S2.Array.1A.20240514.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C04.Series1.Array.1.B.20161115.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Array Pointers ([[Media:C04.S3.ArrayPointer.1A.20240208.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C04.Series3.ArrayPointer.1.B.20181203.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Multi-dimensional Arrays ([[Media:C04.Series4.MultiDim.1.A.20221130.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C04.Series4.MultiDim.1.B.1111.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Array Access Methods ([[Media:C04.Series4.ArrayAccess.1.A.20190511.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C04.Series3.ArrayPointer.1.B.20181203.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Structures ([[Media:C04.Series3.Structure.1.A.20171204.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C04.Series2.Structure.1.B.20161130.pdf |B.pdf]]) ==== Examples ==== * Spreadsheet Example Programs :: Example 1 ([[Media:C04.Series7.Example.1.A.20171213.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C04.Series7.Example.1.C.20171213.pdf |C.pdf]]) :: Example 2 ([[Media:C04.Series7.Example.2.A.20171213.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C04.Series7.Example.2.C.20171213.pdf |C.pdf]]) :: Example 3 ([[Media:C04.Series7.Example.3.A.20171213.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C04.Series7.Example.3.C.20171213.pdf |C.pdf]]) :: Bubble Sort ([[Media:C04.Series7.BubbleSort.1.A.20171211.pdf |A.pdf]]) ==== Applications ==== * Address-of and de-reference operators ([[Media:C04.SA0.PtrOperator.1A.20260714.pdf |A.pdf]]) * Applications of Pointers ([[Media:C04.SA1.AppPointer.1A.20241121.pdf |A.pdf]]) * Applications of Arrays ([[Media:C04.SA2.AppArray.1A.20240715.pdf |A.pdf]]) * Applications of Array Pointers ([[Media:C04.SA3.AppArrayPointer.1A.20240210.pdf |A.pdf]]) * Applications of Multi-dimensional Arrays ([[Media:C04.Series4App.MultiDim.1.A.20210719.pdf |A.pdf]]) * Applications of Array Access Methods ([[Media:C04.Series9.AppArrAcess.1.A.20190511.pdf |A.pdf]]) * Applications of Structures ([[Media:C04.Series6.AppStruct.1.A.20190423.pdf |A.pdf]]) === Handling Various Kinds of Data === * Types ([[Media:C05.Data1.Type.1.A.20180217.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C05.Data1.Type.1.B.20161212.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Typecasts ([[Media:C05.Data2.TypeCast.1.A.20180217.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C05.Data2.TypeCast.1.B.20161216.pdf |A.pdf]]) * Operators ([[Media:C05.Data3.Operators.1.A.20161219.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C05.Data3.Operators.1.B.20161216.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Files ([[Media:C05.Data4.File.1.A.20161124.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:C05.Data4.File.1.B.20161212.pdf |B.pdf]]) === Handling Low Level Operations === * Bitwise Operations ([[Media:BitOp.1.B.20161214.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:BitOp.1.B.20161203.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Bit Field ([[Media:BitField.1.A.20161214.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:BitField.1.B.20161202.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Union ([[Media:Union.1.A.20161221.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Union.1.B.20161111.pdf |B.pdf]]) * Accessing IO Registers ([[Media:IO.1.A.20141215.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:IO.1.B.20161217.pdf |B.pdf]]) === Declarations === * Type Specifiers and Qualifiers ([[Media:C07.Spec1.Type.1.A.20171004.pdf |pdf]]) * Storage Class Specifiers ([[Media:C07.Spec2.Storage.1.A.20171009.pdf |pdf]]) * Scope === Class Notes === * TOC ([[Media:TOC.20171007.pdf |TOC.pdf]]) * Day01 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Introduction (1) Standard Library * Day02 ([[Media:Day02.A.20171007.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day02.B.20171209.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day02.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Introduction (2) Basic Elements * Day03 ([[Media:Day03.A.20171007.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day03.B.20170908.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day03.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Introduction (3) Numbers * Day04 ([[Media:Day04.A.20171007.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day04.B.20170915.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day04.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Structured Programming (1) Flowcharts * Day05 ([[Media:Day05.A.20171007.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day05.B.20170915.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day05.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Structured Programming (2) Conditions and Loops * Day06 ([[Media:Day06.A.20171007.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day06.B.20170923.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day06.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Program Control * Day07 ([[Media:Day07.A.20171007.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day07.B.20170926.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day07.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Function (1) Definitions * Day08 ([[Media:Day08.A.20171028.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day08.B.20171016.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day08.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Function (2) Storage Class and Scope * Day09 ([[Media:Day09.A.20171007.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day09.B.20171017.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day09.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Function (3) Recursion * Day10 ([[Media:Day10.A.20171209.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day10.B.20171017.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day10.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Arrays (1) Definitions * Day11 ([[Media:Day11.A.20171024.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day11.B.20171017.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day11.C.20171212.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Arrays (2) Applications * Day12 ([[Media:Day12.A.20171024.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day12.B.20171020.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day12.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Pointers (1) Definitions * Day13 ([[Media:Day13.A.20171025.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day13.B.20171024.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day13.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Pointers (2) Applications * Day14 ([[Media:Day14.A.20171226.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day14.B.20171101.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day14.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... C String (1) * Day15 ([[Media:Day15.A.20171209.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day15.B.20171124.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day15.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... C String (2) * Day16 ([[Media:Day16.A.20171208.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day16.B.20171114.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day16.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... C Formatted IO * Day17 ([[Media:Day17.A.20171031.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day17.B.20171111.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day17.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Structure (1) Definitions * Day18 ([[Media:Day18.A.20171206.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day18.B.20171128.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day18.C.20171212.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Structure (2) Applications * Day19 ([[Media:Day19.A.20171205.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day19.B.20171121.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day19.C.20171209.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Union, Bitwise Operators, Enum * Day20 ([[Media:Day20.A.20171205.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day20.B.20171201.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day20.C.20171212.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Linked List * Day21 ([[Media:Day21.A.20171206.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day21.B.20171208.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day21.C.20171212.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... File Processing * Day22 ([[Media:Day22.A.20171212.pdf |A.pdf]], [[Media:Day22.B.20171213.pdf |B.pdf]], [[Media:Day22.C.20171212.pdf |C.pdf]]) ...... Preprocessing <!----------------------------------------------------------------------> </br> See also https://cprogramex.wordpress.com/ == '''Old Materials '''== until 201201 * Intro.Overview.1.A ([[Media:C.Intro.Overview.1.A.20120107.pdf |pdf]]) * Intro.Memory.1.A ([[Media:C.Intro.Memory.1.A.20120107.pdf |pdf]]) * Intro.Number.1.A ([[Media:C.Intro.Number.1.A.20120107.pdf |pdf]]) * Repeat.Control.1.A ([[Media:C.Repeat.Control.1.A.20120109.pdf |pdf]]) * Repeat.Loop.1.A ([[Media:C.Repeat.Loop.1.A.20120113.pdf |pdf]]) * Work.Function.1.A ([[Media:C.Work.Function.1.A.20120117.pdf |pdf]]) * Work.Scope.1.A ([[Media:C.Work.Scope.1.A.20120117.pdf |pdf]]) * Series.Array.1.A ([[Media:Series.Array.1.A.20110718.pdf |pdf]]) * Series.Pointer.1.A ([[Media:Series.Pointer.1.A.20110719.pdf |pdf]]) * Series.Structure.1.A ([[Media:Series.Structure.1.A.20110805.pdf |pdf]]) * Data.Type.1.A ([[Media:C05.Data2.TypeCast.1.A.20130813.pdf |pdf]]) * Data.TypeCast.1.A ([[Media:Data.TypeCast.1.A.pdf |pdf]]) * Data.Operators.1.A ([[Media:Data.Operators.1.A.20110712.pdf |pdf]]) <br> until 201107 * Intro.1.A ([[Media:Intro.1.A.pdf |pdf]]) * Control.1.A ([[Media:Control.1.A.20110706.pdf |pdf]]) * Iteration.1.A ([[Media:Iteration.1.A.pdf |pdf]]) * Function.1.A ([[Media:Function.1.A.20110705.pdf |pdf]]) * Variable.1.A ([[Media:Variable.1.A.20110708.pdf |pdf]]) * Operators.1.A ([[Media:Operators.1.A.20110712.pdf |pdf]]) * Pointer.1.A ([[Media:Pointer.1.A.pdf |pdf]]) * Pointer.2.A ([[Media:Pointer.2.A.pdf |pdf]]) * Array.1.A ([[Media:Array.1.A.pdf |pdf]]) * Type.1.A ([[Media:Type.1.A.pdf |pdf]]) * Structure.1.A ([[Media:Structure.1.A.pdf |pdf]]) go to [ [[C programming in plain view]] ] [[Category:C programming language]] </br> 13tbn7q7c2id2svs9edeznp5ismny3e WikiJournal Preprints/Mental health in Sri Lanka 0 321771 2818320 2818255 2026-07-14T16:02:27Z Atcovi 276019 minor edit(s) 2818320 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Article info | journal = WikiJournal of Medicine <!-- WikiJournal of Medicine, Science, or Humanities --> | last1 = Azeez | orcid1 = 0009-0007-9202-4614 | first1 = Aaqib | last2 = | first2 = | last3 = | first3 = | last4 = | first4 = <!-- up to 9 authors can be added in this above format --> | et_al = <!-- if there are >9 authors, hyperlink to the list here --> | affiliation1 = Old Dominion University | correspondence1 = aaqib.azeez@yahoo.com | affiliations = institutes / affiliations | correspondence = email@address.com | keywords = <!-- up to 6 keywords --> | license = <!-- default is CC-BY --> | abstract = Mental health issues continue to be a significant problem in Sri Lanka, with 2022 suicide rates in the country reporting 15 suicides per 100,000 people, above the global average of 10.5 suicides per 100,000 people. The barriers to mental healthcare on the island are multi-faceted and are best understood with historical context. This narrative review covers the historical developments of mental healthcare, mental health impacts of historical events within the last 100 years, current challenges affecting mental health outcomes, the role of the island's major religions in mental health and mental healthcare, and recommendations for improving future mental healthcare. The author uses peer-reviewed journal articles, relevant books, historical documents, and governmental/non-governmental reports to support clinical and historical claims, though non-peer-reviewed sources were used to contextualize historical and non-clinical claims. The narrative review concludes that outdated legislation, impacts from recent conflicts or disasters, stigma surrounding mental health, and economic vulnerability contribute to mental health issues and the inefficiency of mental healthcare services. The author recommends updating legal frameworks, expanding services, and raising awareness to mitigate social stigma. }} == Introduction == Mental health continues to be a critically relevant topic as the island nation has experienced decades of [[w:Black_July|violent ethnic conflict]], terrorist attacks, alleged war crimes, and economic disruptions. Sri Lanka continues to recover from a [[w:Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis_(2019–2024)|severe economic crisis (2019 - 2024)]], a [[w:Sri_Lankan_civil_war|nearly 30-year civil war ending in 2009]], a [[w:2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings|2019 terrorist attack]], and the [[w:2004_Boxing_Day_tsunami|2004 Boxing Day tsunami]]. The exact effect these major events have had on mental health in the country is "unknown", but the statistics remain concerning despite a declining trend in the overall suicide rate. Suicide rates in the country during the mid-1990s were the second-highest in the world, with ingesting toxic products being the main suicide method. Despite the decline in suicide numbers since then—possibly attributed to Sri Lanka's ban on toxic products—evidence from a 2023 study reports an upward trend in suicide through hanging from 2016 to 2021—independent of the [[w:COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sri_Lanka|COVID-19 pandemic]]. Several risk factors for suicide, such as poverty and economic instability, are still prevalent and even increasing in the country<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rajapakse|first=Thilini|last2=Silva|first2=Tharuka|last3=Hettiarachchi|first3=Nirosha Madhuwanthi|last4=Gunnell|first4=David|last5=Metcalfe|first5=Chris|last6=Spittal|first6=Matthew J.|last7=Knipe|first7=Duleeka|date=2023-01-19|title=The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdowns on Self-Poisoning and Suicide in Sri Lanka: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9914278/|journal=International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health|volume=20|issue=3|pages=1833|doi=10.3390/ijerph20031833|issn=1660-4601|pmc=9914278|pmid=36767200}}</ref>. == Methods == A narrative review was conducted on mental health in Sri Lanka. Sources used included peer-reviewed journal articles, relevant books, historical documents, and governmental/non-governmental reports. These sources were found on Google Scholar, PubMed/PMC, Sri Lankan journals, and official Sri Lankan governmental websites showing relevant statistics/reports. Keywords used to conduct searches included, but were not limited to: "Sri Lanka mental health", "Sri Lanka civil war trauma", "Sri Lanka suicide", "Sri Lanka mental health ordinances", "Sri Lanka religion and mental health", "Sri Lanka public mental healthcare", and "Sri Lanka poverty/economic crisis mental health impact." Studies that were included were relevant to the topic (Sri Lanka, South Asian mental health law, suicide, public mental health, conflict/disaster trauma, or cultural/religious practice), had full text available, and were in the English language. Non-peer-reviewed sources were primarily used to explain historical claims or contextualize non-clinical claims. ==Historical Development of Mental Health Services== Records attest to the care of the mentally ill through established hospitals in the island since the 4th century.<ref name=":17" /> Prior to the incarceration of the mentally ill by the European colonizing forces, the mentally ill were regarded as ''Pissowetitch'', or people who had "the spirit of the Gods within him" and "whatsoever he pronounceth, is looked upon as spoken by God himself, and the people will speak to him, as if it were the very person of God"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14346/14346-h/14346-h.htm|title=An Historical Relation Of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies: Together, With an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and divers other Englishmen now Living there, and of the Author’s Miraculous Escape.|last=Knox|first=Robert|website=www.gutenberg.org|language=en-us|access-date=2026-06-29}}</ref>. With this religious understanding, Lucien de Alwis reasoned that the mentally ill in Sri Lanka were "placed... at a higher social status than the mentally ill in the Western world", with this understanding correlating with the unsurprising absence of evidence of any "large scale segregation[s] of [the] mentally ill from society"<ref name=":17" />. In the 1800s, established care for mental health began shifting primarily from indigenous practices, mainly derived from [[w:Ayurveda|Ayurveda medicine]], [[w:Siddha_medicine|Siddha medicine]], and [[w:Unani_medicine|Unani medicine]], to a Western model by the British<ref name=":17" /><ref name=":0">Gambheera, H. (2011). [https://www.saarcpsychiatry.com/viewText?chapter=c6 The evolution of psychiatric services in Sri Lanka]. South Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2(1), 25–27.</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite book|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-8078-8_7|title=Social Psychiatry in Sri Lanka|last=Baminiwatta|first=Anuradha|last2=Williams|first2=Shehan|date=2025|publisher=Springer Nature|isbn=978-981-96-8078-8|editor-last=Arafat|editor-first=S. M. Yasir|location=Singapore|pages=141–158|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-981-96-8078-8_7|editor-last2=Singh|editor-first2=Amit|editor-last3=Kar|editor-first3=Sujita Kumar}}</ref>. === Adoption of a Western-based mental healthcare model and ordinances === In 1839, [[w:James_Alexander_Stewart-Mackenzie|James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie]], the 7th Governor of British Ceylon, released the Lunacy Ordinance, authorizing municipal authorities to create lunatic asylums for the mentally ill<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://mentalhealth.health.gov.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=125&lang=en|title=History - Directorate of Mental Health|website=mentalhealth.health.gov.lk|access-date=2025-05-10}}</ref>. The ordinance was concerned with the legal frameworks of detaining individuals considered dangerous to others or individuals falsely presenting themselves as mentally ill, and not on medical treatments to alleviate the conditions of detained individuals. UK psychiatrist [[w:Edward_Mapother|Edward Mapother]] critiqued the ordinance during his 1937 inspection of British Ceylon's mental health institutions in a series of reports titled ''A Disgrace to a Civilised Community'', remarking that the ordinance "[did] not seem to have contemplated treatment as a contingency to be considered"<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Permeable walls: historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting|date=2009|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-420-2599-8|editor-last=Mooney|editor-first=Graham|series=Clio medica|location=Amsterdam New York, NY|editor-last2=Reinarz|editor-first2=Jonathan}}</ref>. The 1839 Ordinance was repealed and replaced by the 1840 Ordinance, which removed two requirements from the previous Ordinance: the requirement for official medical diagnoses of the mentally ill and the mandate to maintain adequate staff-to-patient ratios within lunatic asylums<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Alwis|first=L. A. P. de|last2=Seneviratne|first2=V. L.|last3=Mendis|first3=T. S. S.|last4=Abhayanayaka|first4=C.|date=2024-12-31|title=The development of laws related to the disposal of forensic patients in Sri Lanka: A historical review|url=https://sljpsyc.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/sljpsyc.v15i2.8569|journal=Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry|language=en-US|volume=15|issue=2|doi=10.4038/sljpsyc.v15i2.8569|issn=2012-6883}}</ref>. In 1873, a third Ordinance was released. It included linguistic changes, where the term, "insane", was replaced with "of unsound mind". The Ordinance also gave more power to medical professionals in determining insanity diagnoses, and more power to detainees in appealing their commitment to the mental asylum. Despite the increased granted authority, the legal frameworks behind the detainment of the criminally insane were left identical to previous ordinances<ref name=":3" />. === Development of mental asylums === At the time the 1839 ordinance was released, mentally ill patients were placed either in prisons throughout the country or leprosy hospitals, such as the [[w:Hendala_Leprosy_Hospital|Hendala Leprosy Hospital]] in the Gampaha district<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />. After the creation of the first mental asylum in Borella in 1846, patients from the Hendala Leprosy Hospital were transferred to Borella. Overcrowding soon became an issue, which led to patients being sent to prisons. [[File:Edward Mapother.jpg|thumb|A portrait taken of Edward Mapother during his time working at [[w:Maudsley_Hospital|Maudsley Hospital]] in London. ]] As medical institutions were being made to house the mentally ill, another mental asylum was created in the [[w:Cinnamon_Gardens|Cinnamon Gardens]] area of Colombo in 1884, though this mental asylum faced overcrowding issues in just one year<ref name=":0" />. Treatment in these asylums was limited to occupational and protection therapy, failing to provide treatment for the root causes. In 1926, the Angoda Mental Hospital was established, marginally alleviating the severe overcrowding issues that were plaguing the preceding mental asylums. Despite the addition of 1,700 beds to the facility, treatment was still vastly limited and the patients were left in significantly poor conditions. === Edward Mapother and his 1937 inspection of British Ceylon === Edward Mapother was born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 12, 1881 and moved to London when he was 7 years old<ref>{{Cite book|title=Madness to mental illness: a history of the Royal College of Psychiatrists|last=Bewley|first=Thomas|date=2008|publisher=RCPsych Publications ; Distributed in North America by Balogh International|isbn=978-1-904671-35-0|location=London : [S.l.]}}</ref>. Mapother attained his M.D. in 1908. While Mapother was the Medical Superintendent of Maudsley Hospital in London, England, he was invited to inspect British Ceylon's mental health institutions by Dr S. T. Gunasekara, the first Medical Director of British Ceylon<ref name=":1" />. In Mapother's visit, he commented that the Angoda Mental Hospital had the atmosphere of "a prison that is neglected and dilapidated"<ref name=":1" />. Overcrowding was still a major issue, with the institute hosting 3,000 patients—more than double the intended capacity. Patients were sleeping on mats and were clearly out of reach of adequate treatment. Mapother also noted that only 4% of public health expenditure in the country was being set for hospitals, drawing a stark comparison to London's 25%<ref name=":1" />. Mapother offered a vivid and grim account of the hospital in his reports: <blockquote> The floor, roof and walls of each cell consist alike of drab cement without any attempt at colouring or decoration. High up in one wall is a small window with stout iron bars. In the floor is a large hole into which the patient may pass his motion and urine. These cells are incompletely divided from one another by a partition which does not reach the roof so that the noise and stink from any one cell may reach at least all the others of the same row. Into these empty cells I was informed that the most noisy and troublesome patients in the hospital; were turned at night completely naked. The doors of the cell contain no observation window, and considering the violent character of many of these patients there is every ground for believing that the doors are rarely opened in the night by the solitary attendant on duty. It needs little imagination to picture the suffering of any patient in an early stage of bodily illness passing a night under such conditions, a situation which must frequently arise. I am told that the noise proceeding from this building is like that on a bad night in a menagerie<ref name=":0" />.</blockquote>Mapother proposed a series of reinforcements to the legal, institutional, and medical frameworks of mental health care in British Ceylon. This included the decentralization of the psychiatric services, a reworking of the Lunacy Ordinance to incorporate treatment into the legal framework, and the establishment of a separate service of medical professionals dedicated to psychiatry. Mapother's recommendations led to several of the best local medical professionals to be sent to London for extensive training in psychiatry, while nurses from England were sent to British Ceylon to supervise hospital operations and train local staff<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />. On August 25, 1938, the Executive Committee of Health approved the strategies proposed by Mapother, though the Government was unable to fully implement all of Mapother's interventions due to the 'heavy cost'. In fact, the Government decided to forego one of his proposals at the beheast of the "Visiting Committee", a committee that was tasked to "meet at the hospital, carry out inspections, and make recommendations" to the Executive Committee of Health<ref name=":1" />. The Government believed that deficiencies in their mental healthcare system could prove to be "costly" for their reputation, which enraged Maptoher. Mapother intended to contact the Secretary of State regarding the "distortion" of his plans, but was interrupted by events preceding [[w:World_War_II|World War II]]<ref name=":1" />. Mapother passed away on March 20, 1940, without materializing his follow-up plans. === Post-Mapother developments and further innovations === [[File:Sri Lanka districts Colombo.svg|thumb|A map of Sri Lanka highlighting the Colombo District, where the capital is located. |right|250px]]Mapother's insights on the mental healthcare structure in British Ceylon proved to be the catalyst of significant renovations. In 1939, the first outpatient clinic was established in the [[w:National_Hospital_of_Sri_Lanka|National Hospital of Sri Lanka]] in Colombo. The first trained Ceylonese psychiatrists began practice in the 1940s, leading to the establishment of the first neuropsychiatric clinic in Colombo in 1943. Treatments for the mentally ill improved dramatically, as [[w:insulin_shock_therapy|insulin shock therapy]] and [[w:Electroconvulsive_therapy|cardiazol convulsive therapy]] were utilized<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Kathriarachchi|first=Samudra T.|last2=Seneviratne|first2=V. Lakmi|last3=Amarakoon|first3=Luckshika|date=2019-06|title=Development of Mental Health Care in Sri Lanka: Lessons Learned|url=https://journals.lww.com/tpsy/fulltext/2019/33020/development_of_mental_health_care_in_sri_lanka_.1.aspx|journal=Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry|language=en-US|volume=33|issue=2|pages=55|doi=10.4103/TPSY.TPSY_15_19|issn=1028-3684}}</ref>. Mapother's advocation for the decentralization of services were further honored through the 1947 establishment of a first child guidance clinic in Colombo General Hospital<ref name=":0" />. In 1948, British Ceylon was granted independence after the [[w:Sri_Lankan_independence_movement|Sri Lankan independence movement]]. Changes in the mental healthcare structure were not immediate following independence, but rapid expansions of mental healthcare services were continuing to actualize. The following decades saw positive institutional developments, such as the creation of a second hospital in [[w:Mulleriyawa|Mulleriyawa]] in 1957, and the creation of a psychiatric inpatient unit in Colombo General Hospital in 1967—effectively granting the city of Colombo the luxury of hosting the top psychiatric care in the country<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4899-7999-5_4|title=Mental Health System Development in Sri Lanka|last=Minas|first=Harry|last2=Mendis|first2=Jayan|last3=Hall|first3=Teresa|date=2017|publisher=Springer US|isbn=978-1-4899-7997-1|editor-last=Minas|editor-first=Harry|location=Boston, MA|pages=59–77|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-1-4899-7999-5_4|editor-last2=Lewis|editor-first2=Milton}}</ref>. The 1950s was also the start of psychopharmacological innovations, with the introduction of [[w:Lithium_(medication)|lithium]] and long-acting injectable antipsychotics ([[w:Depot_injection|depot]] [[w:Antipsychotic|neuroleptics]]) in the succeeding years<ref name=":4" />. Additionally, the number of public psychiatrist positions increased by 400% from 1953 to 1967<ref name=":5" />. After 1960, mental health services were expanded from beyond the capital to other cities in the country<ref name=":2" />. In 1980, the [[w:Postgraduate_Institute_of_Medicine|Postgraduate Institute of Medicine]] initiated a program where students would enroll in a 5-year medical course and attain an MD in psychiatry, curbing the need for Sri Lankan medical students to be sent abroad to complete their training. Many of the medical students sent abroad for training never returned to Sri Lanka to practice, resulting in a "1:500,000 to 1000,000" ratio of psychiatrists to patients on "most occasions"<ref name=":0" />. === Mental Disease Ordinance of 1956 === In 1956, the 1873 Ordinance was revised a second time. The Mental Disease Ordinance of 1956 featured another linguistic development, as "lunacy" was replaced with "mental disease"<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite journal|last=Hapangama|first=Aruni|last2=Mendis|first2=Jayan|last3=Kuruppuarachchi|first3=K. a. L. A.|date=2023-02|title=Why are we still living in the past? Sri Lanka needs urgent and timely reforms of its archaic mental health laws|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-international/article/why-are-we-still-living-in-the-past-sri-lanka-needs-urgent-and-timely-reforms-of-its-archaic-mental-health-laws/B18B03DC962CC6F09BC6D7877E390EE4|journal=BJPsych International|language=en|volume=20|issue=1|pages=4–6|doi=10.1192/bji.2022.26|issn=2056-4740|pmc=9909436|pmid=36812028}}</ref>. The Ordinance paved way for community-based services to be delivered to patients closer to their residences, rather than strictly allocating services to just hospitals. This led to the creation of a [[w:WHO|WHO]]-backed community clinic near the [[w:University_of_Colombo|University of Colombo]] in the 1970s, where the focus was to eventually ease patients in the Angoda Mental Hospital back into the general population<ref name=":5" />. === Developments from the 1990s === The 1990s and onwards saw further positive developments in framing the mental healthcare system, including the establishment of the [https://mentalhealth.health.gov.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=101&lang=en Directorate of Mental Health] in 1998. The Directorate of Mental Health is a part of the [[w:Ministry_of_Health_(Sri_Lanka)|Ministry of Health]] and is responsible for the monitoring and implementation of mental health programs across the country<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mentalhealth.health.gov.lk/index.php?lang=en|title=Home - Directorate of Mental Health|website=mentalhealth.health.gov.lk|access-date=2025-05-12}}</ref>. As of 2025, the current director of the Directorate of Mental Health is Dr. Chithramalee de Silva<ref name=":2" />. On November 11, 2005, the Mental Health Policy was approved by the Government of Sri Lanka, advocating for establishments of more de-centralized, community-based mental health services across the country. The policy aimed to concisely define the rigorous standards needed to be met for each respected medical professional, including psychiatrists and clinical psychologists<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rajapakshe|first=Onali Bimalka Wickramaseckara|last2=Mohan|first2=Mohapradeep|last3=Singh|first3=Swaran Preet|date=2023-05|title=Development of adolescent mental health services in Sri Lanka|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10895478/|journal=BJPsych international|volume=20|issue=2|pages=41–43|doi=10.1192/bji.2022.32|issn=2056-4740|pmc=10895478|pmid=38414998}}</ref>. The policy also included a new position, the "Medical Officer of Mental Health", tasked with overseeing and assisting in creating community-based mental health services<ref name=":0" />. In the same year, the Sri Lankan government began implementing psychological services in state institutions, such as the military<ref name=":8" />. In 2007, the National Mental Health Advisory Council (NMHAC) was created to serve as an 'advisory' board for the Ministry of Health<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://mentalhealth.health.gov.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=220&lang=en|title=Introduction - Directorate of Mental Health|website=mentalhealth.health.gov.lk|access-date=2025-05-12}}</ref>. In 2008, the Angoda Mental Hospital was restructured and renamed as the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)<ref name=":7" />. === Modern-day Sri Lanka === [[File:Feeding Children in Sri Lanka.jpg|left|thumb|Despite the noteworthy improvements in mental healthcare services in recent decades, mental health remains a significant issue due to rising poverty. ]] As of 2025, the Mental Health Act (mental health legislation) has been undergoing development since 2005 and is currently awaiting to be considered for the final stage of approval. This is expected to replace the 1956 Mental Health Ordinance<ref name=":7" />. Currently, there are 7 tertiary care hospitals, 61 adult patient units, 3 child inpatient units, and 1 forensic unit with over 100 psychiatrists all throughout the 22 districts<ref name=":4" />. The [[w:Lady_Ridgeway_Hospital_for_Children|Lady Ridgeway Hospital]] in Colombo and the Sirimavo Bandaranayke Specialized Children Hospital in Kandy are specialized in treating children with [[w:Learning_disability|SLD]], [[w:ADHD|ADHD]], [[w:Autism_Spectrum_Disorder|ASD]], and provides family support for patients. As of 2017, 22 rehabilitation centers exist through the country, including 7 alcohol rehab centers<ref name=":7" />. Despite the impressive advancements in mental healthcare in the last couple of decades, Sri Lanka still suffers significant mental health issues due to increasing poverty levels in the country. The [[w:World_Bank|World Bank]] reported that [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/08/eesc-a08.html the poverty levels in Sri Lanka increased from 11% in 2019 to 26% in 2024], with 60% of Sri Lankan households facing "decreased incomes"<ref>Lakhtakia, Shruti, Atapattu Mudiyanselage, Udahiruni Shashadari Atapat, Walker, Richard Ancrum. ''Sri Lanka Development Update - Bridge to Recovery (English).'' Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. <nowiki>http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099634104012434919</nowiki></ref>. This was exacerbated by Sri Lanka's excessive foreign debt, economic troubles stemming from [[w:Gotabaya_Rajapaksa|Gotabaya Rajapaksa]]'s presidential term, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the [[w:Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine|ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia (2022)]]. According to [[w:NYU|New York University]] graduate student [https://gc-cuny.academia.edu/NadiaAugustyniak Nadia Augustyniak] in her 2025 overview of Sri Lanka's public mental healthcare system, poverty-induced financial precarity remains a major obstacle to receiving access to mental healthcare services. Even though trauma from adverse weather and conflict is deleterious to mental health, issues originating from every-day struggles, especially struggles related to poverty, could arguably play a more significant role<ref name=":8">{{Cite journal|last=Augustyniak|first=Nadia|date=2025-06-01|title=Public mental healthcare and economic vulnerability in Sri Lanka|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2666560324000926|journal=SSM - Mental Health|volume=7|pages=100387|doi=10.1016/j.ssmmh.2024.100387|issn=2666-5603}}</ref>. == Impact of Conflicts, Terrorism, Political Instability & Natural Disasters == === Sri Lankan Civil War === The '''Sri Lankan Civil War''' was a domestic conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (abbreviated as the ''LTTE),'' a militant group formed in the 1970s as a byproduct of rising tensions between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil population. The group is considered a terrorist organization<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.start.umd.edu/baad/database/liberation-tigers-tamil-eelam-ltte-1998.html|title=BAAD - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) - 1998 {{!}} START.umd.edu|website=www.start.umd.edu|access-date=2025-06-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/liberation-tigers-tamil-eelam-aka-tamil-tigers-sri-lanka-separatists|title=Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (aka Tamil Tigers) (Sri Lanka, separatists) {{!}} Council on Foreign Relations|last=Bhattacharji|first=Preeti|website=www.cfr.org|language=en|access-date=2025-06-09}}</ref>. The LTTE conducted decades of massacres, assassinations of political figures, and suicide bombings to achieve ''[[w:Tamil_Eelam|Tamil Eelam]],'' leading to civilian displacement, infrastructure collapse, and the reduction of mental health services available in the northern region.[[File:DFID-funded, UNHCR emergency shelter tents, in the IDP camp at Menik Farm, Sri Lanka (3694081492).jpg|thumb|350x350px|An IDP camp in Menik Farm, Sri Lanka in 2009 ([https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-19703826 now closed]). Suicide rates in IDP camps were three times the general population.]]The civil war mainly affected the northeastern portion of the country, including the [[w:Vanni_(Sri_Lanka)|Vanni region]]. The conflict caused mass destruction to local mental healthcare facilities. Local residents described the conflict as ''varthayal varnicca mudiyathavai'', roughly translating into English as 'beyond description by words'<ref name=":9">{{Cite journal|last=Somasundaram|first=Daya|date=2010-07-28|title=Collective trauma in the Vanni- a qualitative inquiry into the mental health of the internally displaced due to the civil war in Sri Lanka|url=https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-4-22|journal=International Journal of Mental Health Systems|language=en|volume=4|issue=1|pages=22|doi=10.1186/1752-4458-4-22|issn=1752-4458|pmc=2923106|pmid=20667090}}</ref>. In 2003, only two psychiatrists were found in the region, operating on extremely limited resources. This furthered long-term trauma and mental health deterioration in the population<ref name=":5" />. In 2002, the humanitarian organization [https://www.msf.org/ Médecins Sans Frontières] (MSF) conducted an investigation on mental health needs in the [[w:Vavuniya|Vavuniya]] area, the site of intense conflict during the civil war (including the [[w:1985_Vavuniya_massacre|1985 Vavuniya massacre]]), and found that many of the residents suffered from high suicide rates, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, grief, and a "sense of ‘learnt helplessness’"<ref name=":5" />. A team from the University of Konstanz in Germany found that 92% of grade school children in the region were exposed to "combat, shelling, and witnessing the death of loved ones"<ref name=":9" />. [[File:Tractors. Jan 2009 displacement in the Vanni.jpg|left|thumb|350x350px|Displaced civilians evacuating from the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu Districts due to military campaigns initiated by the Sri Lankan military (January 2009).]] Additionally, accusations of war crimes have been made against [[w:War_crimes_during_the_final_stages_of_the_Sri_Lankan_civil_war|the Sri Lankan government]]<ref>See also [[w:Sexual violence in the Sri Lankan civil war]].</ref>. A 2009 HRW report alleged that the Sri Lankan government considered the native Tamil population residing in war zones to be "siding with the LTTE and [therefore, were] treated as combatants", and that the government conducted numerous shellings of "areas crowded with civilians"<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2009-02-19|title=War on the Displaced|url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/02/19/war-displaced/sri-lankan-army-and-ltte-abuses-against-civilians-vanni|journal=Human Rights Watch|language=en}}</ref>. Furthermore, the LTTE conducted recruitment campaigns on the Vanni population where recruited men, women, and even children with minimal training, were recruited for war efforts. Over 200,000 Tamil civilians were moved into [[w:Internally_displaced_persons_in_Sri_Lanka|designated displacement camps during the war]], where conditions were poor<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dissanayake|first=Lasith|last2=Jabir|first2=Sameeha|last3=Shepherd|first3=Thomas|last4=Helliwell|first4=Toby|last5=Selvaratnam|first5=Lavan|last6=Jayaweera|first6=Kaushalya|last7=Abeysinghe|first7=Nihal|last8=Mallen|first8=Christian|last9=Sumathipala|first9=Athula|date=2023-08-31|title=The aftermath of war; mental health, substance use and their correlates with social support and resilience among adolescents in a post-conflict region of Sri Lanka|url=https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-023-00648-1|journal=Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health|language=en|volume=17|issue=1|pages=101|doi=10.1186/s13034-023-00648-1|issn=1753-2000}}</ref>. The suicide rate in these displacement camps was three times the community-level (2002), with a ratio of 103.5 suicides per 10,000 persons, compared to the general population's rate of 37.5 suicides per 10,000 persons. Almost all suicide attempts involved poisonous substances. Other forms of violence included domestic violence and child abuse. Local health officials in Vavuniya admitted that mental health concerns were a major problem, but were unable to address these concerns due to a lack of resources and support from the government. During the [[wikipedia:Sri_Lankan_civil_war#2002_peace_process_(2002%E2%80%932006)|brief 2002 ceasefire]], the MSF implemented a "community-based programme" which included "increasing awareness, community strengthening, reinforcing coping-strategies for long-term war-affected communities, and counselling". The MSF also advocated for restrictions of poisonous substances due its means for suicide attempts, and stressed that "much more [than resettlement]" would need to be done to help alleviate the psychological pain the northern population had faced due to the war<ref>{{Cite journal|last=de Jong|first=Kaz|last2=Mulhern|first2=Maureen|last3=Ford|first3=Nathan|last4=Simpson|first4=Isabel|last5=Swan|first5=Alison|last6=van der Kam|first6=Saskia|date=2002-04|title=Psychological trauma of the civil war in Sri Lanka|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673602084209|journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=359|issue=9316|pages=1517–1518|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08420-9}}</ref>. The ceasefire ended in 2006 and led to the [[w:Eelam_War_IV|final phase of the civil war]], eventually ending in 2009 with the [[w:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velupillai_Prabhakaran#Sri_Lankan_Army_Northern_offensive_and_death|death of the LTTE's leader]]. '''Post-war''' [[File:Puttalam district.svg|left|thumb|Puttalam District, unlike its northern counterparts, was largely spared from the intense conflict, possibly explaining the lower rates of common mental disorders (CMDs).]] The first district-wide cross-sectional multistage cluster sample survey was conducted in the [[w:Jaffna_District|Jaffna District]] shortly after the war ended in 2009. The study's sample included 1517 households and 2 internally displaced peoples camps. With a response rate of 92%, the study found that symptoms for PTSD were found in 7% of participants, symptoms of anxiety were found in 32.6% of participants, and symptoms of depression were found in 22.2% of participants. 2% of respondents were being placed in internally displaced peoples camps at the time of the study, 29.5% were freshly resettled from the internally displaced peoples camps, and the rest of the participants (68.5%) were never placed into camps. In comparison to residents who were never placed into camps, participants that were actively held in camps generally reported more symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, and depression. The researchers also found that women were especially vulnerable to deteriorating mental health conditions. This was explained by two factors: women having to assume the roles of both the father and the mother in the family setting after the, either voluntary or forced, departure of their husband to war, and sexist violence<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Husain|first=Farah|last2=Anderson|first2=Mark|last3=Lopes Cardozo|first3=Barbara|last4=Becknell|first4=Kristin|last5=Blanton|first5=Curtis|last6=Araki|first6=Diane|last7=Kottegoda Vithana|first7=Eeshara|date=2011-08-03|title=Prevalence of War-Related Mental Health Conditions and Association With Displacement Status in Postwar Jaffna District, Sri Lanka|url=https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1052|journal=JAMA|volume=306|issue=5|pages=522–531|doi=10.1001/jama.2011.1052|issn=0098-7484}}</ref>. A 2013 study on adult patients in [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232631/ primary care settings] (divisional hospitals, primary medical care units) found major depression to be significantly higher in females (5.1%) than males (3.6%), bolstering the findings from the 2009 study<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Senarath|first=Upul|last2=Wickramage|first2=Kolitha|last3=Peiris|first3=Sharika Lasanthi|date=2014-03-24|title=Prevalence of depression and its associated factors among patients attending primary care settings in the post-conflict Northern Province in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study|url=https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-14-85|journal=BMC Psychiatry|language=en|volume=14|issue=1|pages=85|doi=10.1186/1471-244X-14-85|issn=1471-244X|pmc=3987835|pmid=24661436}}</ref>. Muslims in Northern Sri Lanka also faced violence and discrimination during the conflict. Most notable incidents include [[w:Expulsion_of_Muslims_from_the_Northern_Province_of_Sri_Lanka|the October 1990 expulsion of Muslims from the North to the Puttalam District or Jaffna]] and the [[w:Kattankudy_mosque_massacre|1990 Kattankudy mosque massacre]]. The only study testing the displaced Muslim population post-civil war was completed in 2011, where a cross-sectional survey of 450 internally displaced people or people born into displacement (ages 18 - 65) revealed 18.8% of the sample suffering from common mental health disorders (CMD), including [[w:Somatoform_disorder|somatoform disorder]] (14%), "other depressive syndromes" (7.3%), major depression (5.1%), and anxiety disorder (2.8%). The percentages found in this study for somatoform disorder and major depression were "considerably higher" than the national percentages, though the researchers noted that the prevalence of CMD was lower in comparison to other countries marred with conflict, including Palestine (40.3%) and Ethiopia (27.8%). The researchers explained that the lower rate of CMD may be attributed to the [[w:Puttalam_District|serenity of the post-settlement destination]], as conflict was mainly centered in the North and East. In contrast to earlier findings, this study did not observe a higher prevalence of CMDs among women, although increased rates of somatoform disorders were noted (though the researchers did not reveal the data behind this)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Siriwardhana|first=Chesmal|last2=Adikari|first2=Anushka|last3=Pannala|first3=Gayani|last4=Siribaddana|first4=Sisira|last5=Abas|first5=Melanie|last6=Sumathipala|first6=Athula|last7=Stewart|first7=Robert|date=2013-05-22|title=Prolonged Internal Displacement and Common Mental Disorders in Sri Lanka: The COMRAID Study|url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0064742|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=8|issue=5|pages=e64742|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0064742|issn=1932-6203|pmc=3661540|pmid=23717656}}</ref>. Research on the mental state of combatants has been limited, but a post-war 2009 study done between soldiers of the [[w:Sri_Lanka_Army_Special_Forces_Regiment|Special Forces]] and regular soldiers showed higher levels of exposure to traumatic events for units of the Special Forces, yet the former exhibited significantly less symptoms of CMDs compared to the latter. The authors of this study, [https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=cVKEBdwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Raveen Hanwella] and [https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ZRj74qMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra Varuni de Silva], offered the camaraderie of the military unit as an explanation for the discrepancy<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hanwella|first=Raveen|last2=de Silva|first2=Varuni|date=2012-08|title=Mental health of Special Forces personnel deployed in battle|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22038567|journal=Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology|volume=47|issue=8|pages=1343–1351|doi=10.1007/s00127-011-0442-0|issn=1433-9285|pmid=22038567}}</ref>. A follow-up study was completed by the pair (with the addition of former Director-General of the Health Services of the Sri Lanka Navy [[w:Nicholas_Jayasekera|Nicholas Jayasekera]]), where the findings were similar, though the statistically significant bridge between the two cohorts in the previous study evaporated in the follow-up study. This may be due to the significant decline in mental health problems observed in the regular unit forces, potentially reflecting resilience in the aftermath of the conflict<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hanwella|first=Raveen|last2=Jayasekera|first2=Nicholas E. L. W.|last3=Silva|first3=Varuni A. de|date=2014-09-25|title=Mental Health Status of Sri Lanka Navy Personnel Three Years after End of Combat Operations: A Follow Up Study|url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0108113|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=9|issue=9|pages=e108113|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0108113|issn=1932-6203|pmc=4177866|pmid=25254557}}</ref>. Amputees or soldiers with spinal injuries exhibited drastically different numbers, with approximately 40% of nearly 100 male-veterans in a post-war 2009 study displaying PTSD-like symptoms<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Abeyasinghe|first=N. L.|last2=de Zoysa|first2=P.|last3=Bandara|first3=K.M.K.C.|last4=Bartholameuz|first4=N. A.|last5=Bandara|first5=J. M.U.J.|date=2012-05-01|title=The prevalence of symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among soldiers with amputation of a limb or spinal injury: A report from a rehabilitation centre in Sri Lanka|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2011.608805|journal=Psychology, Health & Medicine|volume=17|issue=3|pages=376–381|doi=10.1080/13548506.2011.608805|issn=1354-8506|pmid=21942815}}</ref>. About a decade after the conflict ceased, a few notable studies have emerged to help guide understanding on the longer-term mental health effects on victims of the civil war. From July 2019 to October 2020, a study conducted on 585 local adolescents (ages 12-19) in the Vavuniya district revealed that despite 15.6% of the statistic having faced one or more war-related events, only 3.9% of the participants had moderate to severe depression. In addition to considerably low depression rates, only 5.7% of participants age 17+ were found to have moderate to severe hopelessness<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dissanayake|first=Lasith|last2=Jabir|first2=Sameeha|last3=Shepherd|first3=Thomas|last4=Helliwell|first4=Toby|last5=Selvaratnam|first5=Lavan|last6=Jayaweera|first6=Kaushalya|last7=Abeysinghe|first7=Nihal|last8=Mallen|first8=Christian|last9=Sumathipala|first9=Athula|date=2023-08-31|title=The aftermath of war; mental health, substance use and their correlates with social support and resilience among adolescents in a post-conflict region of Sri Lanka|url=https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-023-00648-1|journal=Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health|language=en|volume=17|issue=1|pages=101|doi=10.1186/s13034-023-00648-1|issn=1753-2000|pmc=10472617|pmid=37653394}}</ref>. The authors referenced a 2010 observation by psychiatrist [https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/daya-somasundaram Daya Somasundaram], who noted that many Tamil IDPs presented "remarkable resilience and post-traumatic growth" after the civil war—an outcome he attributed to the close-knit, family-centered nature of Tamil communities<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Somasundaram|first=Daya|date=2010-07-28|title=Collective trauma in the Vanni- a qualitative inquiry into the mental health of the internally displaced due to the civil war in Sri Lanka|url=https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-4-22|journal=International Journal of Mental Health Systems|volume=4|issue=1|pages=22|doi=10.1186/1752-4458-4-22|issn=1752-4458|pmc=2923106|pmid=20667090}}</ref>. However, findings originating from a 2019 study, undertook by several faculty members from the University of Kelaniya, the University of Jaffna, the [[w:Gampaha_Wickramarachchi_University_of_Indigenous_Medicine|Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine]], and the [https://onur.gov.lk/ Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR)] in Jaffna, found contrasting results. Out of 336 participants from districts which faced significant ramifications of the conflict (Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaithivu, Vavuniya, and Mannar districts), 50.5% had extreme anxiety symptoms and 36.5% exhibited "extremely severe" symptoms of depression. 92.5% of families in the sample experienced suicidal ideation, with an observed negative correlation between trauma exposure and life satisfaction with families. Drug abuse (86.2%) and alcohol abuse (84.5%) were the two highest problematic behaviors recorded on a community-level, suggesting that the negative consequences of the civil war still persist, possibly on a substantial scale than previously recognized, in Tamil communities residing in the North<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thamotharampillai|first=Umaharan|last2=Perera|first2=Ruwanthi|last3=Wickremasinghe|first3=Rajitha|last4=Williams|first4=Shehan|last5=Vijayasangar|first5=Thedsanamoorthy|last6=Sivatharsan|first6=Balasubramaniam|last7=Hilbert|first7=Vanceline|last8=Somasundaram|first8=Daya|date=2025-05-06|title=Collective Trauma- Psychosocial consequences of war in northern Sri Lanka 10 years on, a mixed methods study|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560325000696|journal=SSM - Mental Health|pages=100457|doi=10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100457|issn=2666-5603}}</ref>. Further research should be conducted on Northern Tamil populations to assess the extent of mental health issues stemming from the conflict. In 2019, [https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/R-M-M-Monaragala-2087692299 Dr. R. M. M. Monaragala] conducted a study on 1,845 soldiers with combat experience, finding that 3.9% of the sample suffered from PTSD. Dr. Monaragala noted that "probable depression, fatigue, aggression, and family history of mental disorder" were correlative of PTSD presence. He suggested that "screening and psychosocial intervention[s]" could alleviate CMDs of former combatants<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Monaragala|first=R. M. M.|date=2024-04-19|title=Exploring the effects of the past civil war in terms of the prevalence and associating factors of PTSD|url=https://sljpsyc.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/sljpsyc.v14i2.8465|journal=Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry|language=en-US|volume=14|issue=2|doi=10.4038/sljpsyc.v14i2.8465|issn=2012-6883}}</ref>. === 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami === The '''2004 Boxing Day Tsunami''' was a natural disaster where a tsunami spawned off a 9.2–9.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Aceh in Indonesia on December 26. The tsunami greatly affected the coastlines of the country, with the death toll reaching to around 35,000 deaths. In addition, 90,000 houses were destroyed and 516,000 people were forced to migrate due to severe infrastructural damage<ref name=":5" />. It stands as the [http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/tsunami_relief/119821.htm worst natural disaster to have ever hit Sri Lanka]. [[File:Tsunami relief 2004 02.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Volunteers from [[w:Royal_College,_Colombo|Royal College in Colombo]] assisting in tsunami relief efforts (Sarvodaya Headquaters, Moratuwa).]] A survey conducted on schoolchildren (ages 8-14) in Manadkadu (a Tamil-majority village in the northern coast), [[w:Kosgoda|Kosgoda]] (western coast), and [[w:Galle|Galle]] (southern coast), just a few weeks after the tsunami hit Sri Lanka, revealed that 33.8%, 13.9%, and 38.8% of children interviewed exhibited signs of PTSD (according to the DSM-IV's criteria), respectively (minus the time criteria, as the DSM-IV does not permit diagnosis of PTSD within 4 weeks of a traumatic incident). The loss of family members and exposure to previously traumatic incidents appeared to be highly correlate with PTSD development<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Neuner|first=Frank|last2=Schauer|first2=Elisabeth|last3=Catani|first3=Claudia|last4=Ruf|first4=Martina|last5=Elbert|first5=Thomas|date=2006|title=Post-tsunami stress: A study of posttraumatic stress disorder in children living in three severely affected regions in Sri Lanka|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jts.20121|journal=Journal of Traumatic Stress|language=en|volume=19|issue=3|pages=339–347|doi=10.1002/jts.20121|issn=1573-6598}}</ref>. Many victims in the Jaffna area suffered with "[https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/prolonged-grief-disorder pathological grief], phobias, depression and PTSD" post-tsunami. Schizophrenia in the Jaffna Tamil community, which had already suffered elevated prevalence of PTSD prior to the tsunami, had worsened—highlighting the need for specialized care in response to cumulative exposures to chronic and acute traumas. In a study published in ''International Psychiatry'' (2006), Jaffna-based researchers noted that, contrary to their initial inclinations, there was not a "large[r] (than expected) rise in [the] number of people" seeking mental health support 3 months after the tsunami. However, 10 months after the disaster, the researchers anticipated that "more psychiatric disorders" would emerge due to "very little rebuilding [efforts]" and an apparent "unfairness in the aid system".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Somasundaram|first=D. J.|last2=Yoganathan|first2=S.|last3=Ganesvaran|first3=T.|date=1993-09|title=Schizophrenia in northern Sri Lanka|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7828234|journal=The Ceylon Medical Journal..|volume=38|issue=3|pages=131–135|issn=0009-0875|pmid=7828234}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Danvers|first=K.|last2=Sivayokan|first2=S.|last3=Somasundaram|first3=D. J.|last4=Sivashankar|first4=R.|date=2006-07|title=Ten months on: qualitative assessment of psychosocial issues in northern Sri Lanka following the tsunami|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6734678/|journal=International Psychiatry: Bulletin of the Board of International Affairs of the Royal College of Psychiatrists|volume=3|issue=3|pages=5–8|issn=1749-3676|pmc=6734678|pmid=31507850}}</ref> At the February 2005 ''After the Tsunami: Mental Health Challenges to the Community for Today and Tomorrow'' conference in Thailand, [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chandanie-Hewage Dr. Chandanie Hewage] of the [[w:University_of_Ruhuna|University of Ruhuna]] commentated that measures taken to assist the affected were "not coordinated" due to poor "communication systems and road [conditions]." Regardless, efforts were continued by the government and health professionals to alleviate the struggles the victims were facing, including the psychological ramifications of the disaster. Several issues in the delivery of these services were highlighted by Dr. Hewage, including poor maintenance of health records, lack of awareness on drug consumption by the patients themselves, and shortages of health professionals. Dr. Hewage points out that personnel had "little" mental health training prior to the disaster, suggesting increased "research" and adequate "provision[ing] and training of staff" for the long-term<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Davidson|first=Jonathan R. T.|date=2006|title=Foreword. After the tsunami: mental health challenges to the community for today and tomorrow|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16602809|journal=The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry|volume=67 Suppl 2|pages=3–8|issn=0160-6689|pmid=16602809}}</ref>. With inadequate documentation, no systematic procedures in place, and insufficient personnel, tsunami victims with mental health concerns may not receive the services they need, further compacting neuropsychological ailments. In 2008 (about 3-4 years after the tsunami), researchers in the hard-hit village of [[w:Peraliya|Peraliya]] (Galle District) found that from a sample of approximately 90 adults, 25% suffered from moderate–severe PTSD, with women scoring "above the cut-off for anxiety" and reporting more "somatic symptoms", though researchers inferred that the PTSD rate found in the study may be influenced by other factors, including war or economic hardship<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hollifield|first=Michael|last2=Hewage|first2=Chandanie|last3=Gunawardena|first3=Charlotte N.|last4=Kodituwakku|first4=Piyadasa|last5=Bopagoda|first5=Kalum|last6=Weerarathnege|first6=Krishantha|last7=Group|first7=International Post-Tsunami Study|date=2008-01|title=Symptoms and coping in Sri Lanka 20–21 months after the 2004 tsunami|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/symptoms-and-coping-in-sri-lanka-2021-months-after-the-2004-tsunami/CB33752239AF362A0BFD55B3668D60B0|journal=The British Journal of Psychiatry|language=en|volume=192|issue=1|pages=39–44|doi=10.1192/bjp.bp.107.038422|issn=0007-1250}}</ref>. === 2019 Easter Bombings === The '''2019 Easter Bombings''' were a series of coordinated attacks perpetrated by the Islamic extremist group, [[w:National_Thowheeth_Jama'ath|National Thowheeth Jama'ath]], on April 21, 2019. The attack targeted three churches and three hotels in the Colombo area, killing nearly 300 people and injuring over 500. The attacks were also attributed to the incompetency of the Sri Lankan government, who ignored [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48044636 multiple warnings preceding the attacks]. The attacks negatively affected the Sri Lankan Catholic community and further weakened relations between the major religious groups<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jayawickreme|first=Nuwan|last2=Jayawickreme|first2=Eranda|last3=McCaffrey|first3=Amy Z.|last4=Thiruvarangan|first4=Mahendran|date=2025-06-01|title=Mental health futures in post-war Sri Lanka: Resilience, relational pluralism, and implementation pathways|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560325000775|journal=SSM - Mental Health|volume=7|pages=100465|doi=10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100465|issn=2666-5603}}</ref>. In the aftermath of the attacks, professionals in the [[w:Gampaha_District|Gampaha District]] resorted to "low-cost methodologies" for children and adolescents affected by the attack, as a "severe shortage" of children and adolescent mental health experts were exposed<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Chandradasa|first=Miyuru|last2=Rathnayake|first2=Layani C|last3=Rowel|first3=Madushi|last4=Fernando|first4=Lalin|date=2020-06-01|title=Early phase child and adolescent psychiatry response after mass trauma: Lessons learned from the Easter Sunday attack in Sri Lanka|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764020913314|journal=International Journal of Social Psychiatry|language=EN|volume=66|issue=4|pages=331–334|doi=10.1177/0020764020913314|issn=0020-7640}}</ref>. In a qualitative study of 8 survivors of the attacks receiving grief counseling, [[w:University_of_Ruhuna|University of Ruhuna]] assistant professor [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Virasha-Godakanda Virasha Godakanda] observed that 70% of the sample size expressed a lack of confidence in adequate mental health interventions from the government, reducing the quality of such services. Professor Godakanda strongly endorsed for "culturally-sensitive" programs, a diversity in therapeutic approaches (including nature-based therapy), and "prolonged investigations" to track developments in mental health resources and impacts of implemented interventions<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Godakanda|first=Virasha|date=2025-01-29|title=A GRIEF COUNSELING INTERVENTION AFTER THE MASS TRAUMA: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE VICTIMS OF THE EASTER SUNDAY ATTACK IN SRI LANKA|url=https://kjmr.com.pk/kjmr/article/view/216|journal=Kashf Journal of Multidisciplinary Research|language=en|volume=2|issue=01|pages=13–32|doi=10.71146/kjmr216|issn=3007-200X}}</ref>. A few weeks following the attacks, Muslims in Sri Lanka were subjected to [[w:2019_anti-Muslim_riots_in_Sri_Lanka|violent, coordinated riots]] masterminded by Sinhalese national forces<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mujahidin|first=Muhammad Saekul|date=2023-07-03|title=Extremism and Islamophobia Against the Muslim Minority in Sri Lanka|url=https://www.ajis.org/|journal=American Journal of Islam and Society|language=en|volume=40|issue=1-2|pages=213–241|doi=10.35632/ajis.v40i1-2.3135|issn=2690-3741}}</ref>. Riots were mainly centered in the [[w:Kurunegala_District|Kurunegala]], Gampaha, and [[w:Kandy_District|Kandy]] Districts. At least [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/5/21/in-sri-lanka-muslims-say-sinhala-neighbours-turned-against-them one confirmed death was reported]. Calls for vague ''niqab'' and ''burqa'' bans were increasingly prominent, eventually leading to the 2021 burqa ban by the Sri Lankan government. Pakistani and Afghani refugees fleeing religious persecution in Negombo were forced to be "made refugees again" after local protests were orchestrated against their settlement. Anti-Muslim sentiment was "unleashed online, in the law, and on the street"<ref>{{Cite book|title=CARTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY OF RACE, GENDER AND POWER: global identity|date=2021|publisher=CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLIS|isbn=978-1-5275-6965-2|location=S.l.}}</ref>. Albeit its relevancy to the attacks, no in-depth mental health studies have took place on the minority Muslim population following the Easter bombings. Further research is imperative in exploring the sustained psychological effects of Islamophobia and its effect on the Muslim minority community in the aftermath of the 2019 Easter attacks. Literature on the impact of the 2019 Easter Bombings on mental health is limited and further research should be conducted. === 2019-2024 Economic Crisis === The '''2019-2024 Economic Crisis''' refers to a 5 year period where the Sri Lankan economy experienced significant inflation and an abrupt hike in prices on basic, everyday items. It is the worse economic crisis the country has faced since the Sri Lankans were granted independence in 1948. Schools in Sri Lanka were forced to postpone examinations due to paper shortages. Gas shortages led to long lines at gas stations, some lasting for days, throughout the island. Shortages in electricity, cooking gas, and aviation feul were additional consequences of the economic crisis. Healthcare workers faced a barrage of impediments in their line of work during the crisis, including a lopsided work-life balance due to unprecedented demand, increased stress and mental fatigue from a lack of resources and personnel, unhealthy coping mechanisms, job dissatisfaction, and a reduction in work quality. Such effects perpetuated a self-enforcing cycle of psychologically distressed mental healthcare workers providing subpar services, affecting patients and amplifying mental health issues experienced by both the workforce and their patients<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dilogini|first=S.|last2=Grace|first2=H. H.|last3=Thasika|first3=T.|date=2024|title=Exploring The Mental Health and Well-Being of Public Healthcare Workers (HCWs) Amid Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka|url=http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/11092|language=en|publisher=Chartered Institute of Personnel Management}}</ref>. Medical students from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Colombo reported that the economic crisis forced abrupt changes in dietary consumption, increased hopelessness in the future, increased stress and anxiety, and a decrease in interest in pursuing a "clinical post-graduate career"<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Adikaranayake|first=Pesala Randika|last2=Perera|first2=Anusha Nimrod|last3=Nilaweera|first3=Akhila Imantha|last4=Fernando|first4=Desha Rajni|last5=Wijayaratne|first5=Dilushi Rowena|date=2025-07-01|title=Effects of Sri Lankan economic crisis on health, lifestyle and education of medical students in Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo – an online survey|url=https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-07506-y|journal=BMC Medical Education|language=en|volume=25|issue=1|pages=938|doi=10.1186/s12909-025-07506-y|issn=1472-6920|pmc=12211748}}</ref>. 283 government-school teachers completed a web-based cross-sectional survey in April 2024, with majority of the participants reporting a severe reduction in monthly income & 1/3 of participants exhibiting "clinical levels of psychological distress"<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Senevirathne|first=C. P.|last2=Senarathne|first2=D. L. P.|last3=Fernando|first3=M. S.|last4=Senevirathne|first4=S. P.|date=2025-05-28|title=Examining the economic burden and mental health distress among government school teachers in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study|url=https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02921-8|journal=BMC Psychology|language=en|volume=13|issue=1|pages=572|doi=10.1186/s40359-025-02921-8|issn=2050-7283}}</ref>. A study published in that same year reported that out of 261 nurses working in teaching hospitals, 91.6% were forced to allocate their finances to strictly "general needs", while more than 50% looked into international opportunities for employment. Notably, the study reported an overall near "twofold greater" rate of depression, anxiety, and stress compared to previous studies on nurses in Sri Lanka<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Senevirathne|first=C.P|last2=Senarathne|first2=L.|last3=Fernando|first3=M.|date=2024-04-01|title=Exploring the Association Between Behavioural Modification in Response to the Prevailing Economic Crisis and Mental Health Outcomes of Nurses from Teaching Hospitals, Sri Lanka|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/23779608241272679|journal=SAGE Open Nursing|language=EN|volume=10|pages=23779608241272679|doi=10.1177/23779608241272679|issn=2377-9608|pmc=11311183}}</ref>. The detrimental effects the crisis has had on the mental health sector reveal a concerning area of underappreciation and under compensation towards a critical sector for the well-being of the country. Adequate staffing, increased funding, and an improved work-life balance should be emphasized for the workers of health sector of the country. == Present-Day Challenges == === Ethnic tension === Despite the end of the Sri Lankan civil war and the introduction of pluralist policies, such as the [https://srilankaembassy.fr/sites/default/files/files/media/pdf/NationalPolicy-English.pdf 2017 National Policy on Reconciliation and Coexistence] under the Sirisena administration, tensions amongst members of the ethnic groups still persist in the country. Evidence of these tensions was found through a 2022 study conducted in the Ratnapura district, where religious leaders expressed skepticisms, through semi-structured interviews, for "conflict transformation". A Tamil citizen of the Ratnapura community recounted that they were forced to "hide in jungles" and consume "dirty water in drainage[s]" due to scarcity of food and drinkable water as a result of the conflict. In certain personal accounts, ethnic conflicts appear to affect the social behavior and identity of the majority ethnic group. One Sinhala participant recounted his objection to the war-time retaliatory destruction of a shop run by a Tamil shopkeeper was met with interrogative questions about "whether [he was] Sinhalese or not". Both accounts convey interethnic tensions stemming from decade-long conflicts<ref>Jayathilaka, Aruna & Gamage, Sayuri. (2024). Role of Buddhist and Hindu Religious Leaders Role of Buddhist and Hindu Religious Leaders in the Post-War Conflict Transformation Process: A Study Based on Rathnapura District in Srilanka. ''Retrieved from'' https://gandhimargjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Volume-46-Issue-1-April-June-2024.pdf#page=66</ref>. Beyond individual accounts and the official end of the civil war, the minority groups in the country continue to feel ostracized. The Sri Lankan Tamil population remains dissatisfied with the Sri Lankan government and their accountability of perpetrators of war crimes and information on the whereabouts of [[w:Enforced_disappearances_in_Sri_Lanka|thousands of enforced disappearances]] that took place from the 1980s. Additionally, rising anti-Muslim sentiment in recent years contribute to increased ethnic tensions, a stark contrast to the previous centuries of peaceful co-existence between the groups. [[File:Bodu Bala Sena symbol.svg|thumb|The symbol for Bodu Bala Sena, a nationalistic Sinhala Buddhist group criticized for catalyzing ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka.]] Laws passed by the Sri Lankan government, such as the [[w:Prevention_of_Terrorism_Act_(Sri_Lanka)|Prevention of Terrorism Act]] and [[wikipedia:Anti-conversion_law#Sri_Lanka|anti-conversion laws]], have forced the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom to label Sri Lanka as a nation that "[engages] or [tolerates] severe violations of religious freedom" in their 2024 report. The government has been criticized by human rights organizations for "disproportionately targeting religious minorities"<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jayawickreme|first=Nuwan|last2=Jayawickreme|first2=Eranda|last3=McCaffrey|first3=Amy Z.|last4=Thiruvarangan|first4=Mahendran|date=2025-06-01|title=Mental health futures in post-war Sri Lanka: Resilience, relational pluralism, and implementation pathways|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560325000775|journal=SSM - Mental Health|volume=7|pages=100465|doi=10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100465|issn=2666-5603}}</ref>. Additionally, the implementation of the three dominant languages, English, Sinhala, and Tamil, across formal education and government services have been lackadaisical, narrowing opportunities of foundational social interactions between the groups. Persistent discrimination and prejudice towards minority groups can lead to an array of complex and self-deprecating mental health issues. Effort to mitigate ethnic tensions include strategies like [[w:Community-based_participatory_research|community-based participatory research]] (CBPR), task-sharing, and securing online mental health services in order to expand mental health services. However, the implementation of evidence-based plans has been met with difficulty due to inaccessibility, high costs, and shortages of adequately-trained personnel. Movements aiming for improved intra group and inter group coexistences, such as the Jaffna People’s Forum for Coexistence developed in the wake of the 2019 Easter bombings, should be emphasized on a systematic and multi-level basis, including but not limited to education, public sectors, and within communities. Pluralistic values are encouraged to be emphasized across both private and public schools to foster cultural sensitivity and tolerance. Measures should be taken against groups criticized for promoting sectarian hostility, such as the [[w:Bodu_Bala_Sena|Bodu Bala Sena]]. === Poverty === It has been proven that poverty significantly increases the chances of developing mental illnesses. This is further amplified by possible discrimination<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Knifton|first=Lee|last2=Inglis|first2=Greig|date=2020-10|title=Poverty and mental health: policy, practice and research implications|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7525587/|journal=BJPsych bulletin|volume=44|issue=5|pages=193–196|doi=10.1192/bjb.2020.78|issn=2056-4694|pmc=7525587|pmid=32744210}}</ref>. Poverty also affects the ability for individuals with mental health concerns to receive the treatment they need. Due to the repercussions of the economic crisis, clients in Sri Lanka could not attend further counseling sessions<ref name=":8" />. Poverty from 2021 to 2022 [https://databankfiles.worldbank.org/public/ddpext_download/poverty/987B9C90-CB9F-4D93-AE8C-750588BF00QA/current/Global_POVEQ_LKA.pdf reportedly doubled], with future forecasts predicting the poverty line to "remain above 25 percent". Suicide has been empirically linked to economic hardships in previous studies<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kithulagoda|first=A. S.|last2=Gunasinghe|first2=U. C. M.|last3=Senevirathna|first3=J. M. M. S.|last4=Nufail|first4=A. L. M.|last5=Alahakoon|first5=A. M. S. S.|date=2025-07-16|title=An Analysis of Attempted Suicide Cases Registered at Teaching Hospital Batticaloa, Sri Lanka|url=https://bmj.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/bmj.v19i1.67|journal=Batticaloa Medical Journal|language=en-US|volume=19|issue=1|doi=10.4038/bmj.v19i1.67|issn=1800-4903}}</ref>. A 2013 study done on suicidal patients in [[w:Batticaloa_Teaching_Hospital|Batticaloa Teaching Hospital]] revealed 76% of patients who attempted suicide were from rural areas while 15% were from urban areas<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1457|title=The influence of common risk factors for the patient with attempted suicide hospitalized at the teaching hospital, Batticaloa|last=Kisokanth|first=G.|last2=Najeem|first2=M. M.|last3=Karunakaran|first3=K. E.|date=2014-08-02|publisher=South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka|isbn=978-955-627-053-2|language=en-US}}</ref>. The Sri Lankan government should consider the economical impacts that poverty has on mental health and implement ways to aid poverty-stricken individuals with mental health concerns. === Stigmas === Stigma consists of the "combined effect of prejudice, ignorance and discrimination."<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|url=http://www.researchgate.net/publication/233990797_The_Stigma_of_Mental_Illness_in_Sri_Lanka_The_Perspectives_of_Community_Mental_Health_Workers|title=(PDF) The Stigma of Mental Illness in Sri Lanka: The Perspectives of Community Mental Health Workers|website=ResearchGate|language=en|access-date=2025-07-25}}</ref>. A 2012 interview consisting of nine participants (two doctors, three nurses, one occupational therapist, one development worker, and two volunteers) revealed a number of concerning societal viewpoints on individuals with mental health concerns. The interviews revealed that negative judgements were not only levied against the individual with the mental illness, but also the family. Families hid mentally ill family members from the public to avoid "shame" and possible hinderances in marriage proposals. Views that mentally ill individuals were "violent" served as the motivating factor behind socially isolating those with mental illness from their communities. Interviewees mentioned that individuals dealing with mental health challenges would have stones and "derogatory names" launched at them. A lack of community awareness regarding mental health and negative portrayals of mentally ill individuals in media exacerbates stigmatization, though the researchers commented that the media was "improving" in their depiction of mental illness. Beliefs that illnesses are caused by "spirits" can be problematic for individuals dealing with mental health issues and serves as evidence to poor mental health awareness in the country. Mental health workers themselves believed that they were being stigmatized, as mental health is reportedly not taken as seriously as physical health. Despite the intriguing perspectives provided, the small sample size and usage of snow sampling raise questionable concerns regarding the contextualization of the results<ref name=":10" />. Improving media portrayal of subjects concerning mental health and involving community members in interventions dealing with mental health issues are ways that could destigmatize mental health amongst communities in Sri Lanka. Tying collaborations between allopathic services and traditional healers instead of having these two services work individually could enhance engagement between traditional medicine and Western medicine. === Suicide Trends & Risk Factors === Suicide is defined as "the act of killing oneself deliberately, initiated and performed by the person concerned in the full knowledge or expectation of its fatal outcome"<ref name=":11">{{Cite book|title=The neuroscience of suicidal behavior|last=Heeringen|first=Kees van|date=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-60290-4|series=Cambridge fundamentals of neuroscience in psychology|location=Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore}}</ref>. Although Sri Lanka has seen a significant reduction in suicide rates from the mid 1990s due to its banning of extremely toxic pesticide products, suicide and self harm remains a significant issue. The suicide rate per 100,000 people increased from 14.0 in 2019 to [https://www.who.int/srilanka/news/detail/06-09-2024-world-suicide-prevention-day-2024--changing-the-narrative-on-suicide 15.0 in 2022] (according to WHO). On average, 27 males per 100,000 males and 5 females per 100,000 females committed suicide in 2022<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kithulagoda|first=A. S.|last2=Gunasinghe|first2=U. C. M.|last3=Senevirathna|first3=J. M. M. S.|last4=Nufail|first4=A. L. M.|last5=Alahakoon|first5=A. M. S. S.|date=2025-07-16|title=An Analysis of Attempted Suicide Cases Registered at Teaching Hospital Batticaloa, Sri Lanka|url=https://bmj.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/bmj.v19i1.67|journal=Batticaloa Medical Journal|language=en-US|volume=19|issue=1|doi=10.4038/bmj.v19i1.67|issn=1800-4903}}</ref>. Hanging appears to be the most used method for suicide for both males and females, with studies revealing a steady increase in recent years<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal|last=Bandara|first=Piumee|last2=Wickrama|first2=Prabath|last3=Sivayokan|first3=Sambasivamoorthy|last4=Knipe|first4=Duleeka|last5=Rajapakse|first5=Thilini|date=2024-04-17|title=Reflections on the trends of suicide in Sri Lanka, 1997–2022: The need for continued vigilance|url=https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0003054|journal=PLOS Global Public Health|language=en|volume=4|issue=4|pages=e0003054|doi=10.1371/journal.pgph.0003054|issn=2767-3375|pmc=11023397|pmid=38630779}}</ref>. From 2023 to 2024, a group of researchers from the [[w:Eastern_University,_Sri_Lanka|Eastern University in Sri Lanka]] assessed 828 patients admitted to the Teaching Hospital in [[w:Batticaloa,_Sri_Lanka|Batticaloa, Sri Lanka]] for attempted suicide. They concluded that suicide prevention programs should be attuned to younger people (ages 15 to 35 in the study), emphasize the importance of education and reducing unemployment, and increase social support in the Tamil community. Despite the relevant insights into certain aspects of an average Sri Lankan's life that could lead to suicidal ideation (ie, poverty), the results from this study suffer in external validity as 90% of the patients were Tamil and over 50% were between 16 and 25 years. In addition, correlations between suicide and unemployment rates have been questioned, with [[w:Austerity|austerity]] being a more reliable indicator of suicide rates than unemployment rates<ref name=":11" />. Further comprehensive studies on risk factors relating to suicide should be studied to assess correlations between unemployment rates and austerity measures. The WHO suggests implementing evidence-based suicide prevention programs, such as [https://www.who.int/initiatives/live-life-initiative-for-suicide-prevention LIVE LIFE], to reduce the national suicide rate<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.who.int/srilanka/news/detail/06-09-2024-world-suicide-prevention-day-2024--changing-the-narrative-on-suicide|title=World Suicide Prevention day 2024 “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”|website=www.who.int|language=en|access-date=2025-07-29}}</ref>. Media depictions of suicidal methods, such as hanging, can lead to sensationalism and the media should be cautious of such displays in movies and TV shows<ref name=":12" />. Awareness of depression and other mental health issues can serve as a safeguard against suicidal ideation in Sri Lankan men and women. == Role of Religion == According to the last demographic report (2012), 70.2% of Sri Lankans are Buddhist, 12.6% are Hindus, 9.7% are Muslims, and 7.4% are Christians. The Theravada Buddhist community makes up the majority in several provinces throughout the country<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/sri-lanka/|title=Sri Lanka|website=United States Department of State|language=en-US|access-date=2025-08-07}}</ref>. Religion, especially Theravada Buddhism, has had a significant influence on not only the historical treatment of mental health in the country, but also everyday life<ref name=":15" />. The [[w:Mahāvaṃsa|''Mahāvaṃsa'']] affirms hospitals treating patients suffering from mental health issues as early as the 4th century BC. Additionally, the 1700s Nayaka king [[w:Kirti_Sri_Rajasinha|Kirthi Sri Rajasinghe]] detailed the implementation of Buddhist philosophy in psychiatry<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":17">{{Cite journal|last=Alwis|first=L. A. P. De|date=2017-12-05|title=Development of civil commitment statutes (laws of involuntary detention and treatment) in Sri Lanka: a historical review|url=https://mljsl.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/mljsl.v5i1.7351|journal=Medico-Legal Journal of Sri Lanka|language=en|volume=5|issue=1|doi=10.4038/mljsl.v5i1.7351|issn=2012-8231}}</ref>. Modern-day empirical studies have attested to the usefulness of religion in mitigating stress and elevating mental health<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4276-5_22|title=Religion and Mental Health|last=Schieman|first=Scott|last2=Bierman|first2=Alex|last3=Ellison|first3=Christopher G.|date=2013|publisher=Springer Netherlands|isbn=978-94-007-4276-5|editor-last=Aneshensel|editor-first=Carol S.|location=Dordrecht|pages=457–478|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-94-007-4276-5_22|editor-last2=Phelan|editor-first2=Jo C.|editor-last3=Bierman|editor-first3=Alex}}</ref>. Religion has been found to be positively correlated with improved mental health, and more religious patients were concluded to have "better mental health and adapt[ed] more quickly to health problems" versus patients who weren't religious<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Koenig|first=Harold G.|date=2012|title=Religion, spirituality, and health: the research and clinical implications|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3671693/|journal=ISRN psychiatry|volume=2012|pages=278730|doi=10.5402/2012/278730|issn=2090-7966|pmc=3671693|pmid=23762764}}</ref>. [https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/T-N-Wickramarathna-2247724082 Dr. Wickramarathna] of the University Psychiatry Unit (UPU) at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) argues that psychiatrists must strive for a balance in their approach to patients and "make positive use of religion in [their] practice[s]"<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wickramarathna|first=T. N.|date=2022-12-31|title=Psychiatrists should stand far from the shrine: why and why not we should separate religion from psychiatry|url=https://sljpsyc.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/sljpsyc.v13i2.8397|journal=Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry|language=en|volume=13|issue=2|doi=10.4038/sljpsyc.v13i2.8397|issn=2012-6883}}</ref>. === Buddhism === 27 Sinhalese Buddhists from four Buddhist temples were selected for a series of 70-minute interviews and focus group discussions with the aim of learning the Sinhala Buddhist understanding and experience of spiritual well-being and psychological well-being. The interviewees held spiritual wellness to be the "center" of overall wellness, the "precondition for a successful life"<ref name=":14">{{Cite journal|last=Udayanga|first=Samitha|date=2021-06-30|title=Cultural understanding of ‘spiritual well-being’ and ‘psychological well-being’ among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka|url=https://sljss.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/sljss.v44i1.7990|journal=Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences|language=en-US|volume=44|issue=1|doi=10.4038/sljss.v44i1.7990|issn=0258-9710}}</ref>. Sinhala Buddhists believe that wellness cannot be achieved without spiritual tranquility. The report states that participants emphasized that spirituality "cannot be directly intervened" and can only be seen through "[interactions] with society"<ref name=":14" />. Despite the ''athmaya'' (soul) being "unreachable", it can be "intervened", or treated, through the actions of the mind and body with society<ref name=":14" />. One being "psychologically ill" can affect one's spiritual being, as the participants reported in their interviews, and can be affected through "lifestyle stressors, environmental and socio-cultural causes, non-human related causes and bad-karma in the past lives"<ref name=":14" />. The researchers concluded that despite Sinhala Buddhists not being able to articulately decipher the discrepancies between psychological well-being and spiritual well-being, they are able to conceptualize and maintain a culturally embedded understanding between the two, serving as reputable evidence of the integration of mental health in Sinhala Buddhist practices. However, it is important to note that these results come from a very small sample size and cannot be generalized to all Sri Lankan Buddhists. In addition, a 2009 study found that a belief in karma was correlated with poor health. However, an earlier study found a positive correlation between the reliance on the [[w:Karma_in_Buddhism|Buddhist concept of karma]] and trauma, inferencing Buddhist karma being a prevalent response to trauma<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Levy|first=Becca R.|last2=Slade|first2=Martin D.|last3=Ranasinghe|first3=Padmini|date=2009-03|title=Causal thinking after a tsunami wave: karma beliefs, pessimistic explanatory style and health among Sri Lankan survivors|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19229624|journal=Journal of Religion and Health|volume=48|issue=1|pages=38–45|doi=10.1007/s10943-008-9162-5|issn=1573-6571|pmid=19229624}}</ref>. Overall, the effectiveness of karma as a coping mechanism appears to be conflicted. Studies indicate that other practices of Buddhism seem to be utilized by individuals affected by the war. 40% of Sri Lankan Buddhists affected by the 2004 tsunami found the Buddhist ritual ''Bodhipuja'' to be helpful in dealing with traumatic experiences<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jmvh.org/article/mental-health-and-the-role-of-cultural-and-religious-support-in-the-assistance-of-disabled-veterans-in-sri-lanka/|title=Mental Health and the Role of Cultural and Religious Support in the Assistance of Disabled Veterans in Sri Lanka|website=JMVH|language=en-US|access-date=2025-08-12}}</ref>. === Catholicism === Catholic counseling refers to "a nuanced and holistic mental health care paradigm that intricately weaves together psychological science with the moral, spiritual, and pastoral traditions of the Catholic Church"<ref name=":13">Perera, U. [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Udeshini-Perera/publication/394095042_Catholic_Counselling_in_Sri_Lanka_Integrating_Faith_Psychology_and_Cultural_Healing/links/6889303af8031739e6098c79/Catholic-Counselling-in-Sri-Lanka-Integrating-Faith-Psychology-and-Cultural-Healing.pdf Catholic Counselling in Sri Lanka: Integrating Faith, Psychology, and Cultural Healing]. July 2025.</ref> and aims to assimilate Catholic theology and evidence-based psychological treatment while including Sri Lankan cultural elements. This is achieved through emphasis on community cohesion and a locally-based understanding of "personhood"<ref name=":13" />. The origins of Catholic counseling trace back to the introduction of Roman Catholicism to the island in the 1600s, with the focus of the early Sri Lankan Catholic community being on "[[w:Evangelism|evangelization]], education, and sacramental formation". Demand for counseling services in general increased due to the impacts of the Sri Lankan Civil War, where Catholic organizations (Caritas Sri Lanka, Seth Sarana, Subodhi Integral Centre (Piliyandala), etc.) established several Catholic-based trauma-informed programmes for victims of the Civil War. Programmes use group therapy, forgiveness rituals, and narrative repairs to alleviate war trauma. Examples of integration of Catholic virtues and counseling can be seen in [[w:Cognitive_Behavioral_Therapy|Cognitive Behavioral Therapy]] (CBT), where "hope" and "humility" are used as the frameworks for creating spiritual resilience<ref name=":13" />. The general Christian call of "agape love and acceptance" is echoed by the concept of [[w:Unconditional_positive_regard|unconditional positive regard]]. ''[[w:Lectio_Divina|Lectio Divina]]'' (Catholic prayer and meditation) and ''Marian devotions'' are integrated into therapeutic practices to achieve emotional regulation and mindfulness. Senior Lecturer [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Udeshini-Perera Udeshini Perera] of the University of Colombo articulates a critical role of Catholic counseling. She claims that secular counseling fails to address the "spiritual roots of distress and moral confusion". Catholic counseling fills in this gap by integrating "psychological insights with a transcendent orientation, supporting lasting transformation and integrity"<ref name=":13" />. As of 2025, no formal accreditation or standardized training exists for [[w:Pastoral_counseling|pastoral counselors]] in Sri Lanka, hampering the legitimacy of Catholic counseling. Udeshini Perera remarks that mental health stigma, lack of standardized training, research regarding Catholic counseling effectiveness, and acceptance of the combination of religion and science in a professional setting present challenges for Catholic pastoral counseling in the country. Additionally, Catholic psychiatry in Sri Lanka appears to be under-researched, and evidence of its empirical effects on followers appears sparse. Further research is needed in assessing the empirical effects of Catholic counseling in Sri Lanka. === Islam === The literature on the empirical effects of Islamic-based psychotherapy in Sri Lanka is limited. Research has revealed a 2012 case study where a 21-year-old Muslim woman was experiencing episodic possession states. The patient ceased attending psychiatric services and opted for religious rituals. The patient reported, in a follow-up visit, that the possession states had been absent for 3 months since her switch to religious rituals. The woman and her family attributed the apparent improvement of her condition to religious rituals<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hanwella|first=Raveen|last2=de Silva|first2=Varuni|last3=Yoosuf|first3=Alam|last4=Karunaratne|first4=Sanjeewani|last5=de Silva|first5=Pushpa|date=2012|title=Religious Beliefs, Possession States, and Spirits: Three Case Studies from Sri Lanka|url=http://www.hindawi.com/journals/crips/2012/232740/|journal=Case Reports in Psychiatry|language=en|volume=2012|pages=1–3|doi=10.1155/2012/232740|issn=2090-682X|pmc=3437272|pmid=22970398}}</ref>. Future recommendations would be to employ resources to research the foundations of Islamic psychiatry in the country, and to observe the rituals employed and their effects on patients. Studies have found that Islamic prayer can be an effective means of "support and coping"<ref name=":15" />. Seven world-wide case studies using Islamic-based psychotherapy on patients, consisting of religious rituals such as scriptural reading from the [[w:Quran|Quran]], teaching of fundamental Islamic concepts (such as ''[[w:Tawakkul|tawakkul]]''), and active implementation of contemplation (''[[w:Tadabbur|tadabbur]]''), have reported positive effects in decreasing cognitive and emotional symptoms associated with "religious, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, grief, and substance use disorder.”<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kurhade|first=Chhaya Shantaram|last2=Jagannathan|first2=Aarti|last3=Varambally|first3=Shivarama|last4=Shivanna|first4=Sushrutha|date=2022-01|title=Religion-based interventions for mental health disorders: A systematic review|url=https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijoyppp.ijoyppp_14_21|journal=Journal of Applied Consciousness Studies|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=20–33|doi=10.4103/ijoyppp.ijoyppp_14_21|issn=2949-6993}}</ref> Additionally, a community-based study of elderly patients in Bangalore, India receiving Islamic-based psychotherapy observed decreased exhibitions of sleep disorders, eating disorders, and emotional distress<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hafeez|first=Nimin|last2=Sanjay|first2=Thittamaranahalli Varadappa|last3=Puthussery|first3=Yannick Poulose|last4=Madhusudan|first4=Muralidhar|last5=Kariyappa|first5=Poornima Muddaiah|last6=Kulkarni|first6=Sridevi|last7=Raj|first7=Lavanya|date=2023-12-31|title=Spiritual practices among elderly, prevalence, pattern and associated factors: a community-based study from rural Bengaluru, India|url=https://jccpsl.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/jccpsl.v29i4.8610|journal=Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka|language=en|volume=29|issue=4|doi=10.4038/jccpsl.v29i4.8610|issn=1391-3174}}</ref>. === Hinduism === Despite Hindus being 12.6% of the population of Sri Lanka, the research on Hinduism-based therapy in the country is limited. Ayurvedic medicine, a form of medicine originating from ancient India, predominated the Sri Lankan medical landscape for over 2,000 years and even had a symbiotic relationship with Sinhalese medicine, which also played a significant and influential role in the country's medical framework<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Udayanga|first=Samitha|date=2021-06-30|title=Cultural understanding of ‘spiritual well-being’ and ‘psychological well-being’ among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka|url=https://sljss.sljol.info/article/10.4038/sljss.v44i1.7990/|journal=Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences|volume=44|issue=1|pages=33|doi=10.4038/sljss.v44i1.7990|issn=2478-1169}}</ref>. Despite its historical dominance, Ayurvedic medicine has been challenged against modern evidence-based medical standards<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://philarchive.org/rec/DOMAAT|title=Ayurveda: Ancient Tradition or Pseudoscientific Practice? A Philosophical Inquiry|last=Dominic|first=Shubham K.}}</ref>. === Comparative synthesis === Taking an overarching review of the role of religion in Sri Lanka, methods to improve mental well-being are practiced by adherents of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. These methods are practiced through karma, tawakkul, hope, and humility. Additionally, these practices are implemented in traditionally-oriented mental health care, which has been reported to be preferred over psychiatric care at times. These rituals practiced across these religions indicate a common theme of psychologically integrated aspects of well-being. Interpretation of trauma is a central use in religion, with religious principles, such as karma and ''tawakkul'', serving as psychologically analogous mechanisms during times of distress. In terms of methodological comparisons to the studies described, qualitative interviews have documented Buddhist practices and principles, like Bodhipuja and the belief in karma, in response to traumatic events, while case studies found religious practices by other religious groups, such as a Muslim patient reading Islamic scripture and observing prayer to reduce emotional distress. Peer-reviewed sources have documented Catholic practices and principles, such as ''Lectio Divina'' and unconditional positive regard, in improving mindfulness and emotional regulation. The paper acknowledges limitations in the evaluation of certain findings, such as in Islam and Hinduism. These shortcomings, however, are a reflection of the existing literature and its deficiencies. Empirical findings indicate mental health practices are complex and are multifaceted in their effects. Evidently, religion serves a parallel role to psychiatric services in improving mental health. Despite its perceived benefits, the findings surrounding religions' role in mental health suffer from conflicting, and sometimes contradictory, results. Additionally, a disproportionate amount of empirical findings seem to be Buddhist-predominant, while other religions are underrepresented in the research. Regarding research barriers, the methodological approaches implemented to study the practices of religious followers vary, though much of the research was brought from qualitative or case-based studies, impeding generalizability. Another noteworthy issue is that many studies do not utilize standardized, psychiatric measures. == Future Outlook == Despite significant changes to the mental health environment in Sri Lanka, the current legal framework shaping mental health in the country has not been updated since 1956. A Cambridge University Press article detailed many limitations of the Mental Disease Ordinance of 1956, including discrepancies between the legal provisions of involuntary admissions and modern practices, potential exposure to trauma through extra-legal detentions of the mentally ill, and an absence of legal guidelines addressing the restraint of violent patients<ref name=":6" />. Participants from Sri Lanka reported in a comparative legislative questionnaire that they felt the mental health laws were "outdated" and descriptions of clinical roles remained ambiguous<ref name=":16" />. A draft mental health legislation from 2007 included provisions for human rights, but due to "bureaucratic processes" and a "lack of consensus", the draft has not been officially approved. These limitations pose challenges to the standardization of mental healthcare admissions and may impact the rights of detained patients. Detained patients may have their human rights violated due to a lack of an up-to-date legal framework, thereby impeding the identification of such violations. Additionally, with the lack of clarity on clinical roles, clinical responsibilities may not be routinely recognized and observed, leading to role confusion and potential legal ramifications<ref name=":16">{{Cite journal|last=Dey|first=Sangeeta|last2=Mellsop|first2=Graham|last3=Diesfeld|first3=Kate|last4=Dharmawardene|first4=Vajira|last5=Mendis|first5=Susitha|last6=Chaudhuri|first6=Sreemanti|last7=Deb|first7=Aniruddha|last8=Huq|first8=Nafisa|last9=Ahmed|first9=Helal Uddin|date=2019-10-24|title=Comparing legislation for involuntary admission and treatment of mental illness in four South Asian countries|url=https://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13033-019-0322-7|journal=International Journal of Mental Health Systems|volume=13|issue=1|pages=67|doi=10.1186/s13033-019-0322-7|issn=1752-4458|pmc=6813093|pmid=31666805}}</ref>. Lastly, current efforts should ideally move beyond just addressing poverty-centered matters, but also expand efforts to domestic violence victims and children with disabilities, as shelters and specialized services are limited<ref name=":82">{{Cite journal|last=Augustyniak|first=Nadia|date=2025-06-01|title=Public mental healthcare and economic vulnerability in Sri Lanka|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2666560324000926|journal=SSM - Mental Health|volume=7|pages=100387|doi=10.1016/j.ssmmh.2024.100387|issn=2666-5603}}</ref>. Stagnation in policy development leaves Sri Lanka without a practical, up-to-date, and comprehensive mental health framework, which could put both clinicians and patients at risk. Future reforms should include clarification on the treatment and detention process of involuntary admissions of patients and a clear delineation of clinical roles and their responsibilities. Without the necessary reforms to advance Sri Lankan mental health legislation, clinicians and vulnerable patients may suffer from a lack of comprehensive oversight. ==Additional information== ===Acknowledgements=== Any people, organisations, or funding sources that you would like to thank. ===Competing interests=== No competing interests. ===Ethics statement=== An ethics statement, if appropriate, on any animal or human research performed should be included here or in the methods section. ==References== {{reflist|35em}} [[Category:Mental health]] [[Category:Sri Lanka]] a2cveygh3rrtw5f5fbt6skd0e0dlhw5 User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell 2 326765 2818316 2818254 2026-07-14T14:07:31Z Dc.samizdat 2856930 /* The 24-cell */ 2818316 wikitext text/x-wiki = Golden chords of the 120-cell = {{align|center|David Brooks Christie}} {{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}} {{align|center|Draft in progress}} {{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}} <blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote> == Introduction == Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties. Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry. Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation. We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope. == Visualizing the 120-cell == {| class="wikitable floatright" width="400" |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all. |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered. |} [[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells. The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}} Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all. Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex. == Compounds in the 120-cell == The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell), is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope. The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell). The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). This implies that 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which will contain 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells). The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). This implies that the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell). These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}} So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside. The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell. == Thirty distinguished distances == The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides. {| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" !rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math> !rowspan=2|arc !rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math> !rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|Steinbach roots !colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell |- !colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math> !colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math> |- |<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small> |<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.270091</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.437016</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small> |<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small> |<small><math>0.618034</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.28825</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.707107</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>2.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small> |<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.756934</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.80252</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small> |<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.831254</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.07768</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small> |<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.93913</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.47709</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>3.70246</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small> |<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.09132</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>4.04057</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small> |<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.14412</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>4.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small> |<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.17557</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.3525</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.22474</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.53457</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small> |<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.30038</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.8146</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small> |<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.345</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>4.9798</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small> |<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.41421</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small> |<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.4802</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.48037</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small> |<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.51954</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>5.62605</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small> |<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.58114</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small> |<small><math>5.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small> |<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>5.9907</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small> |<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.64042</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>6.07359</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small> |<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.67601</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.20537</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small> |<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>1.73205</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.41285</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small> |<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.7658</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>6.53779</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small> |<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.81907</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.73503</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small> |<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.85123</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small> |<small><math>6.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small> |<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.87083</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.92667</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small> |<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>1.90211</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small> |<small><math>7.0425</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small> |<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.95167</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>7.22598</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small> |<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.98168</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>7.33708</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small> |<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>2.</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>7.40492</math></small> |- |rowspan=4 colspan=6| |rowspan=4 colspan=4| <small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br> <small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br> <small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br> <small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small> |colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>1.618034</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>3.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |} == The 16-cell 4-orthoplex == In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]]. A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math> The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math> Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+r_1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-r_1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-r_1</math>. If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>. [[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]] The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron. The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each. The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell. The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs. The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}} Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math> We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal. Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>i \times 45^\circ</math>. [[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]] [[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements. The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The <math>r_2</math> chords form the ''edge polygon'' of the 16-cell {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane. The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over the <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''. The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes six 90° turns and reaches its antipodal position. The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation. We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''characteristic rotation of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>. == The 8-cell tesseract == The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral. [[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]] The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube. The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedra]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes. We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted 3 times, bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each rung is a tesseract edge. The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing. Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}} A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects. == The 24-cell == [[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]] In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes. The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron. The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> [[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]] The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters. The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}, which has chords: :<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math> when <math>r_1=1</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. [[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges, also isocline chords in square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]] [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges, for example in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. We can also rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 24-cell edges. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in any invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit, and its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. There are two distinct ways we can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in invariant planes containing 24-cell edges, called the ''characteristic left rotation'' and the ''characteristic right rotation'', respectively. [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant planes containing two <math>r_{1}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic left rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> 2{12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_5</math> chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> over <math>r_5</math> chords form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The orbit of each vertex traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation. [[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/8}=8{3}<small> </small>shows 8 of 32<small> <math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> triangles in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing six <math>r_{2}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{4}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_4</math> 8{3} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_4</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_4</math> chord makes four 30° turns. Eight Clifford parallel triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>r_4</math> chords form a circular fibration of 8 twisted parallel strands {24/8}=8{3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In three successive 60° isoclinic displacements each vertex circles a triangle and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the four distinct triangles which intersect at the vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting dodecagram of 12 <math>r_4</math> chords. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="6" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations |- ! colspan="3" |Edge chord ! colspan="3" |Isocline chord |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |15° |165° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |30° |150° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |45° |135° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |75° |105° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |90° |90° |} By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we found three distinct isoclinic rotations. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these and also three other distinct isoclinic rotations. Each row of the table is a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords that sum to 180°. The edge chords form the rotation's edge {24}-gon, and lie in invariant planes of the rotation. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford {24}-gon and lie in the invariant planes completely orthogonal to the edge planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°. We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing four <math>t_{6}</math> edges each, over <math>t_{6}</math> isocline chords. The <math>t_6</math> chord is the 16-cell-<math>r_2</math> chord. The edge polygon and the Clifford polygon are both {24/6}=6{4}. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell''. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>t_6</math> chord makes six 15° turns. Six Clifford parallel skew triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>t_6</math> chords form a circular fibration of six twisted parallel strands that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. <s>In every 360° of isoclinic rotation each vertex circles a skew great square and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the three distinct skew squares which intersect at the vertex and the three distinct skew squares which intersect at its antipodal vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting {24}-gon of <math>t_6</math> chords.</s> ... {{Clear}} == The 600-cell == [[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]] The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math>, the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center. In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes. The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has these distinct chords: :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math> :<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are: [[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]] :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short edge chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long isocline chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math> |0° | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0° |180° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |12° |168° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |24° |156° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |36° |144° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |48° |132° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math> |72° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |72° |108° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |84° |96° |} The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a discrete isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell in invariant central planes containing the edges of the short chord {30}-gon, over the isocline chords of the long chord {30}-gon, the rotation's Clifford polygon. Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This [''great square left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This [''invariant great hexagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''invariant great decagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This [''great decagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} == The 5-cell 4-simplex == {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="9" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_0</math> |0° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{30}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_1</math> |15.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14} |164.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{29}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.073~}} |{{radic|3.927~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.270~ |1.982~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_2</math> |25.2~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |154.8~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{28}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.191~}} |{{radic|3.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.437~ |1.952~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_3</math> |36° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{27}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_4</math> |41.4~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |138.6~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{26}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.5}} |{{radic|3.5}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.707~ |1.871~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_5</math> |44.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |135.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{25}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.573~}} |{{radic|3.427~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.757~ |1.851~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_6</math> |49.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |130.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{24}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.691~}} |{{radic|3.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.831~ |1.819~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_7</math> |56° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |124° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{23}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.882~}} |{{radic|3.118~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.939~ |1.766~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_8</math> |60° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{22}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_9</math> |66.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |113.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{21}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.191~}} |{{radic|2.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.091~ |1.676~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{10}</math> |69.8~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |110.2~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{20}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.309~}} |{{radic|2.691~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.144~ |1.640~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{11}</math> |72° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{19}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{12}</math> |75.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |104.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{18}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1.5}} |{{radic|2.5}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1.224~ |1.581~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{13}</math> |81.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |98.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{17}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.691~}} |{{radic|2.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.300~ |1.520~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{14}</math> |84.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |95.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{16}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.809~}} |{{radic|2.191~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.345~ |1.480~ |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |90° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} |90° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |} The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section. Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell and the planar {30)-gon. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is what's new in the 120-cell. ... {{Clear}} == Finally the 120-cell == The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron. The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure. ... {{Clear}} == Conclusions == Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope in its invariant edge planes. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.] The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure in the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact. == Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes == {{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}} == Notes == {{Notelist}} == Citations == {{Reflist}} == References == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }} {{Refend}} 9ksubo08u5rtke5g8fhkiscynmvoooc 2818317 2818316 2026-07-14T14:14:05Z Dc.samizdat 2856930 /* The 16-cell 4-orthoplex */ 2818317 wikitext text/x-wiki = Golden chords of the 120-cell = {{align|center|David Brooks Christie}} {{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}} {{align|center|Draft in progress}} {{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}} <blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote> == Introduction == Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties. Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry. Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation. We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope. == Visualizing the 120-cell == {| class="wikitable floatright" width="400" |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all. |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered. |} [[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells. The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}} Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all. Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex. == Compounds in the 120-cell == The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell), is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope. The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell). The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). This implies that 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which will contain 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells). The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). This implies that the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell). These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}} So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside. The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell. == Thirty distinguished distances == The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides. {| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" !rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math> !rowspan=2|arc !rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math> !rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|Steinbach roots !colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell |- !colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math> !colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math> |- |<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small> |<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.270091</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.437016</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small> |<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small> |<small><math>0.618034</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.28825</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.707107</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>2.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small> |<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.756934</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.80252</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small> |<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.831254</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.07768</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small> |<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.93913</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.47709</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>3.70246</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small> |<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.09132</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>4.04057</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small> |<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.14412</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>4.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small> |<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.17557</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.3525</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.22474</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.53457</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small> |<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.30038</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.8146</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small> |<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.345</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>4.9798</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small> |<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.41421</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small> |<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.4802</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.48037</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small> |<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.51954</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>5.62605</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small> |<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.58114</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small> |<small><math>5.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small> |<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>5.9907</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small> |<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.64042</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>6.07359</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small> |<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.67601</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.20537</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small> |<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>1.73205</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.41285</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small> |<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.7658</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>6.53779</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small> |<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.81907</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.73503</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small> |<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.85123</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small> |<small><math>6.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small> |<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.87083</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.92667</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small> |<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>1.90211</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small> |<small><math>7.0425</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small> |<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.95167</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>7.22598</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small> |<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.98168</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>7.33708</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small> |<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>2.</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>7.40492</math></small> |- |rowspan=4 colspan=6| |rowspan=4 colspan=4| <small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br> <small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br> <small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br> <small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small> |colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>1.618034</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>3.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |} == The 16-cell 4-orthoplex == In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]]. A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math> The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math> Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+r_1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-r_1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-r_1</math>. If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>. [[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]] The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron. The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each. The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell. The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs. The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}} Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math> We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal. Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>i \times 45^\circ</math>. [[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]] [[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements. The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The <math>r_2</math> chords form the ''edge polygon'' of the 16-cell {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane. The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''. The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes six 90° turns and reaches its antipodal position. The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation. We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''characteristic rotation of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>. == The 8-cell tesseract == The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral. [[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]] The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube. The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedra]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes. We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted 3 times, bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each rung is a tesseract edge. The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing. Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}} A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects. == The 24-cell == [[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]] In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes. The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron. The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> [[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]] The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters. The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}, which has chords: :<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math> when <math>r_1=1</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. [[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges, also isocline chords in square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]] [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges, for example in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. We can also rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 24-cell edges. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in any invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit, and its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. There are two distinct ways we can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in invariant planes containing 24-cell edges, called the ''characteristic left rotation'' and the ''characteristic right rotation'', respectively. [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant planes containing two <math>r_{1}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic left rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> 2{12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_5</math> chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> over <math>r_5</math> chords form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The orbit of each vertex traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation. [[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/8}=8{3}<small> </small>shows 8 of 32<small> <math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> triangles in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing six <math>r_{2}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{4}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_4</math> 8{3} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_4</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_4</math> chord makes four 30° turns. Eight Clifford parallel triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>r_4</math> chords form a circular fibration of 8 twisted parallel strands {24/8}=8{3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In three successive 60° isoclinic displacements each vertex circles a triangle and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the four distinct triangles which intersect at the vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting dodecagram of 12 <math>r_4</math> chords. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="6" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations |- ! colspan="3" |Edge chord ! colspan="3" |Isocline chord |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |15° |165° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |30° |150° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |45° |135° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |75° |105° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |90° |90° |} By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we found three distinct isoclinic rotations. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these and also three other distinct isoclinic rotations. Each row of the table is a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords that sum to 180°. The edge chords form the rotation's edge {24}-gon, and lie in invariant planes of the rotation. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford {24}-gon and lie in the invariant planes completely orthogonal to the edge planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°. We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing four <math>t_{6}</math> edges each, over <math>t_{6}</math> isocline chords. The <math>t_6</math> chord is the 16-cell-<math>r_2</math> chord. The edge polygon and the Clifford polygon are both {24/6}=6{4}. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell''. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>t_6</math> chord makes six 15° turns. Six Clifford parallel skew triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>t_6</math> chords form a circular fibration of six twisted parallel strands that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. <s>In every 360° of isoclinic rotation each vertex circles a skew great square and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the three distinct skew squares which intersect at the vertex and the three distinct skew squares which intersect at its antipodal vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting {24}-gon of <math>t_6</math> chords.</s> ... {{Clear}} == The 600-cell == [[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]] The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math>, the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center. In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes. The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has these distinct chords: :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math> :<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are: [[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]] :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short edge chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long isocline chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math> |0° | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0° |180° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |12° |168° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |24° |156° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |36° |144° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |48° |132° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math> |72° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |72° |108° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |84° |96° |} The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a discrete isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell in invariant central planes containing the edges of the short chord {30}-gon, over the isocline chords of the long chord {30}-gon, the rotation's Clifford polygon. Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This [''great square left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This [''invariant great hexagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''invariant great decagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This [''great decagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} == The 5-cell 4-simplex == {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="9" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_0</math> |0° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{30}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_1</math> |15.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14} |164.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{29}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.073~}} |{{radic|3.927~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.270~ |1.982~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_2</math> |25.2~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |154.8~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{28}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.191~}} |{{radic|3.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.437~ |1.952~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_3</math> |36° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{27}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_4</math> |41.4~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |138.6~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{26}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.5}} |{{radic|3.5}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.707~ |1.871~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_5</math> |44.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |135.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{25}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.573~}} |{{radic|3.427~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.757~ |1.851~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_6</math> |49.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |130.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{24}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.691~}} |{{radic|3.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.831~ |1.819~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_7</math> |56° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |124° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{23}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.882~}} |{{radic|3.118~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.939~ |1.766~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_8</math> |60° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{22}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_9</math> |66.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |113.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{21}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.191~}} |{{radic|2.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.091~ |1.676~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{10}</math> |69.8~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |110.2~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{20}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.309~}} |{{radic|2.691~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.144~ |1.640~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{11}</math> |72° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{19}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{12}</math> |75.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |104.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{18}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1.5}} |{{radic|2.5}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1.224~ |1.581~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{13}</math> |81.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |98.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{17}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.691~}} |{{radic|2.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.300~ |1.520~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{14}</math> |84.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |95.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{16}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.809~}} |{{radic|2.191~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.345~ |1.480~ |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |90° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} |90° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |} The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section. Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell and the planar {30)-gon. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is what's new in the 120-cell. ... {{Clear}} == Finally the 120-cell == The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron. The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure. ... {{Clear}} == Conclusions == Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope in its invariant edge planes. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.] The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure in the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact. == Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes == {{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}} == Notes == {{Notelist}} == Citations == {{Reflist}} == References == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }} {{Refend}} b4keswdndjfj6xc6hzvdis4o8oweivh 2818325 2818317 2026-07-14T18:39:38Z Dc.samizdat 2856930 /* The 16-cell 4-orthoplex */ 2818325 wikitext text/x-wiki = Golden chords of the 120-cell = {{align|center|David Brooks Christie}} {{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}} {{align|center|Draft in progress}} {{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}} <blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote> == Introduction == Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties. Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry. Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation. We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope. == Visualizing the 120-cell == {| class="wikitable floatright" width="400" |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all. |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered. |} [[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells. The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}} Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all. Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex. == Compounds in the 120-cell == The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell), is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope. The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell). The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). This implies that 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which will contain 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells). The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). This implies that the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell). These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}} So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside. The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell. == Thirty distinguished distances == The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides. {| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" !rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math> !rowspan=2|arc !rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math> !rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|Steinbach roots !colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell |- !colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math> !colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math> |- |<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small> |<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.270091</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.437016</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small> |<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small> |<small><math>0.618034</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.28825</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.707107</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>2.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small> |<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.756934</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.80252</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small> |<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.831254</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.07768</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small> |<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.93913</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.47709</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>3.70246</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small> |<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.09132</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>4.04057</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small> |<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.14412</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>4.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small> |<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.17557</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.3525</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.22474</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.53457</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small> |<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.30038</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.8146</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small> |<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.345</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>4.9798</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small> |<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.41421</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small> |<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.4802</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.48037</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small> |<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.51954</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>5.62605</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small> |<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.58114</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small> |<small><math>5.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small> |<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>5.9907</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small> |<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.64042</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>6.07359</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small> |<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.67601</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.20537</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small> |<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>1.73205</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.41285</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small> |<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.7658</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>6.53779</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small> |<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.81907</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.73503</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small> |<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.85123</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small> |<small><math>6.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small> |<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.87083</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.92667</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small> |<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>1.90211</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small> |<small><math>7.0425</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small> |<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.95167</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>7.22598</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small> |<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.98168</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>7.33708</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small> |<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>2.</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>7.40492</math></small> |- |rowspan=4 colspan=6| |rowspan=4 colspan=4| <small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br> <small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br> <small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br> <small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small> |colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>1.618034</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>3.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |} == The 16-cell 4-orthoplex == In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]]. A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math> The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math> Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+r_1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-r_1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-r_1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>. If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>. [[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]] The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron. The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each. The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell. The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs. The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}} Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math> We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal. Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>i \times 45^\circ</math>. [[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]] [[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements. The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The <math>r_2</math> chords form the ''edge polygon'' of the 16-cell {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane. The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''. The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes six 90° turns and reaches its antipodal position. The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation. We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''characteristic rotation of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>. == The 8-cell tesseract == The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral. [[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]] The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube. The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedra]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes. We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted 3 times, bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each rung is a tesseract edge. The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing. Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}} A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects. == The 24-cell == [[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]] In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes. The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron. The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> [[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]] The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters. The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}, which has chords: :<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math> when <math>r_1=1</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. [[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges, also isocline chords in square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]] [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges, for example in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. We can also rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 24-cell edges. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in any invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit, and its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. There are two distinct ways we can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in invariant planes containing 24-cell edges, called the ''characteristic left rotation'' and the ''characteristic right rotation'', respectively. [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant planes containing two <math>r_{1}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic left rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> 2{12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_5</math> chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> over <math>r_5</math> chords form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The orbit of each vertex traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation. [[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/8}=8{3}<small> </small>shows 8 of 32<small> <math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> triangles in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing six <math>r_{2}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{4}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_4</math> 8{3} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_4</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_4</math> chord makes four 30° turns. Eight Clifford parallel triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>r_4</math> chords form a circular fibration of 8 twisted parallel strands {24/8}=8{3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In three successive 60° isoclinic displacements each vertex circles a triangle and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the four distinct triangles which intersect at the vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting dodecagram of 12 <math>r_4</math> chords. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="6" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations |- ! colspan="3" |Edge chord ! colspan="3" |Isocline chord |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |15° |165° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |30° |150° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |45° |135° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |75° |105° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |90° |90° |} By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we found three distinct isoclinic rotations. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these and also three other distinct isoclinic rotations. Each row of the table is a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords that sum to 180°. The edge chords form the rotation's edge {24}-gon, and lie in invariant planes of the rotation. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford {24}-gon and lie in the invariant planes completely orthogonal to the edge planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°. We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing four <math>t_{6}</math> edges each, over <math>t_{6}</math> isocline chords. The <math>t_6</math> chord is the 16-cell-<math>r_2</math> chord. The edge polygon and the Clifford polygon are both {24/6}=6{4}. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell''. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>t_6</math> chord makes six 15° turns. Six Clifford parallel skew triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>t_6</math> chords form a circular fibration of six twisted parallel strands that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. <s>In every 360° of isoclinic rotation each vertex circles a skew great square and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the three distinct skew squares which intersect at the vertex and the three distinct skew squares which intersect at its antipodal vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting {24}-gon of <math>t_6</math> chords.</s> ... {{Clear}} == The 600-cell == [[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]] The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math>, the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center. In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes. The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has these distinct chords: :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math> :<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are: [[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]] :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short edge chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long isocline chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math> |0° | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0° |180° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |12° |168° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |24° |156° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |36° |144° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |48° |132° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math> |72° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |72° |108° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |84° |96° |} The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a discrete isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell in invariant central planes containing the edges of the short chord {30}-gon, over the isocline chords of the long chord {30}-gon, the rotation's Clifford polygon. Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This [''great square left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This [''invariant great hexagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''invariant great decagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This [''great decagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} == The 5-cell 4-simplex == {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="9" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_0</math> |0° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{30}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_1</math> |15.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14} |164.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{29}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.073~}} |{{radic|3.927~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.270~ |1.982~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_2</math> |25.2~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |154.8~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{28}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.191~}} |{{radic|3.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.437~ |1.952~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_3</math> |36° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{27}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_4</math> |41.4~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |138.6~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{26}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.5}} |{{radic|3.5}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.707~ |1.871~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_5</math> |44.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |135.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{25}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.573~}} |{{radic|3.427~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.757~ |1.851~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_6</math> |49.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |130.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{24}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.691~}} |{{radic|3.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.831~ |1.819~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_7</math> |56° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |124° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{23}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.882~}} |{{radic|3.118~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.939~ |1.766~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_8</math> |60° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{22}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_9</math> |66.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |113.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{21}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.191~}} |{{radic|2.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.091~ |1.676~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{10}</math> |69.8~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |110.2~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{20}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.309~}} |{{radic|2.691~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.144~ |1.640~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{11}</math> |72° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{19}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{12}</math> |75.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |104.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{18}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1.5}} |{{radic|2.5}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1.224~ |1.581~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{13}</math> |81.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |98.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{17}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.691~}} |{{radic|2.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.300~ |1.520~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{14}</math> |84.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |95.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{16}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.809~}} |{{radic|2.191~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.345~ |1.480~ |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |90° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} |90° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |} The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section. Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell and the planar {30)-gon. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is what's new in the 120-cell. ... {{Clear}} == Finally the 120-cell == The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron. The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure. ... {{Clear}} == Conclusions == Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope in its invariant edge planes. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.] The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure in the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact. == Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes == {{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}} == Notes == {{Notelist}} == Citations == {{Reflist}} == References == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }} {{Refend}} cvl08f8gdbsp3goy73jstxeabn8nj4s 2818331 2818325 2026-07-14T21:16:06Z Dc.samizdat 2856930 /* The 16-cell 4-orthoplex */ 2818331 wikitext text/x-wiki = Golden chords of the 120-cell = {{align|center|David Brooks Christie}} {{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}} {{align|center|Draft in progress}} {{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}} <blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote> == Introduction == Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties. Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry. Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation. We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope. == Visualizing the 120-cell == {| class="wikitable floatright" width="400" |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all. |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered. |} [[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells. The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}} Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all. Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex. == Compounds in the 120-cell == The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell), is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope. The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell). The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). This implies that 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which will contain 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells). The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). This implies that the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell). These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}} So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside. The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell. == Thirty distinguished distances == The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides. {| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" !rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math> !rowspan=2|arc !rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math> !rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|Steinbach roots !colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell |- !colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math> !colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math> |- |<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small> |<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.270091</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.437016</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small> |<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small> |<small><math>0.618034</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.28825</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.707107</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>2.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small> |<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.756934</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.80252</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small> |<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.831254</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.07768</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small> |<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.93913</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.47709</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>3.70246</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small> |<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.09132</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>4.04057</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small> |<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.14412</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>4.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small> |<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.17557</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.3525</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.22474</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.53457</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small> |<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.30038</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.8146</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small> |<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.345</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>4.9798</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small> |<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.41421</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small> |<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.4802</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.48037</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small> |<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.51954</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>5.62605</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small> |<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.58114</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small> |<small><math>5.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small> |<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>5.9907</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small> |<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.64042</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>6.07359</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small> |<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.67601</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.20537</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small> |<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>1.73205</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.41285</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small> |<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.7658</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>6.53779</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small> |<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.81907</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.73503</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small> |<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.85123</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small> |<small><math>6.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small> |<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.87083</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.92667</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small> |<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>1.90211</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small> |<small><math>7.0425</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small> |<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.95167</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>7.22598</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small> |<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.98168</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>7.33708</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small> |<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>2.</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>7.40492</math></small> |- |rowspan=4 colspan=6| |rowspan=4 colspan=4| <small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br> <small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br> <small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br> <small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small> |colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>1.618034</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>3.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |} == The 16-cell 4-orthoplex == In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]]. A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math> The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math> Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>. If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>. [[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]] The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron. The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each. The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell. The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs. The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}} Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math> We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal. Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>i \times 45^\circ</math>. [[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]] [[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements. The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The <math>r_2</math> chords form the ''edge polygon'' of the 16-cell {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane. The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''. The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes six 90° turns and reaches its antipodal position. The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation. We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''characteristic rotation of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>. == The 8-cell tesseract == The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral. [[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]] The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube. The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedra]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes. We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted 3 times, bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each rung is a tesseract edge. The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing. Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}} A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects. == The 24-cell == [[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]] In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes. The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron. The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> [[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]] The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters. The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}, which has chords: :<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math> when <math>r_1=1</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. [[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges, also isocline chords in square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]] [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges, for example in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. We can also rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 24-cell edges. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in any invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit, and its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. There are two distinct ways we can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in invariant planes containing 24-cell edges, called the ''characteristic left rotation'' and the ''characteristic right rotation'', respectively. [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant planes containing two <math>r_{1}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic left rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> 2{12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_5</math> chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> over <math>r_5</math> chords form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The orbit of each vertex traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation. [[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/8}=8{3}<small> </small>shows 8 of 32<small> <math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> triangles in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing six <math>r_{2}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{4}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_4</math> 8{3} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_4</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_4</math> chord makes four 30° turns. Eight Clifford parallel triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>r_4</math> chords form a circular fibration of 8 twisted parallel strands {24/8}=8{3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In three successive 60° isoclinic displacements each vertex circles a triangle and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the four distinct triangles which intersect at the vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting dodecagram of 12 <math>r_4</math> chords. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="6" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations |- ! colspan="3" |Edge chord ! colspan="3" |Isocline chord |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |15° |165° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |30° |150° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |45° |135° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |75° |105° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |90° |90° |} By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we found three distinct isoclinic rotations. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these and also three other distinct isoclinic rotations. Each row of the table is a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords that sum to 180°. The edge chords form the rotation's edge {24}-gon, and lie in invariant planes of the rotation. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford {24}-gon and lie in the invariant planes completely orthogonal to the edge planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°. We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing four <math>t_{6}</math> edges each, over <math>t_{6}</math> isocline chords. The <math>t_6</math> chord is the 16-cell-<math>r_2</math> chord. The edge polygon and the Clifford polygon are both {24/6}=6{4}. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell''. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>t_6</math> chord makes six 15° turns. Six Clifford parallel skew triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>t_6</math> chords form a circular fibration of six twisted parallel strands that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. <s>In every 360° of isoclinic rotation each vertex circles a skew great square and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the three distinct skew squares which intersect at the vertex and the three distinct skew squares which intersect at its antipodal vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting {24}-gon of <math>t_6</math> chords.</s> ... {{Clear}} == The 600-cell == [[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]] The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math>, the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center. In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes. The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has these distinct chords: :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math> :<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are: [[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]] :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short edge chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long isocline chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math> |0° | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0° |180° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |12° |168° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |24° |156° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |36° |144° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |48° |132° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math> |72° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |72° |108° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |84° |96° |} The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a discrete isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell in invariant central planes containing the edges of the short chord {30}-gon, over the isocline chords of the long chord {30}-gon, the rotation's Clifford polygon. Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This [''great square left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This [''invariant great hexagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''invariant great decagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This [''great decagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} == The 5-cell 4-simplex == {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="9" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_0</math> |0° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{30}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_1</math> |15.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14} |164.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{29}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.073~}} |{{radic|3.927~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.270~ |1.982~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_2</math> |25.2~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |154.8~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{28}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.191~}} |{{radic|3.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.437~ |1.952~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_3</math> |36° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{27}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_4</math> |41.4~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |138.6~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{26}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.5}} |{{radic|3.5}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.707~ |1.871~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_5</math> |44.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |135.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{25}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.573~}} |{{radic|3.427~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.757~ |1.851~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_6</math> |49.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |130.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{24}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.691~}} |{{radic|3.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.831~ |1.819~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_7</math> |56° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |124° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{23}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.882~}} |{{radic|3.118~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.939~ |1.766~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_8</math> |60° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{22}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_9</math> |66.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |113.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{21}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.191~}} |{{radic|2.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.091~ |1.676~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{10}</math> |69.8~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |110.2~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{20}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.309~}} |{{radic|2.691~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.144~ |1.640~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{11}</math> |72° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{19}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{12}</math> |75.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |104.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{18}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1.5}} |{{radic|2.5}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1.224~ |1.581~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{13}</math> |81.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |98.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{17}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.691~}} |{{radic|2.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.300~ |1.520~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{14}</math> |84.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |95.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{16}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.809~}} |{{radic|2.191~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.345~ |1.480~ |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |90° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} |90° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |} The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section. Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell and the planar {30)-gon. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is what's new in the 120-cell. ... {{Clear}} == Finally the 120-cell == The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron. The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure. ... {{Clear}} == Conclusions == Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope in its invariant edge planes. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.] The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure in the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact. == Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes == {{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}} == Notes == {{Notelist}} == Citations == {{Reflist}} == References == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }} {{Refend}} ez0vkjrlmj0ysy135bo1kd1n1o1rhag 2818333 2818331 2026-07-14T22:33:39Z Dc.samizdat 2856930 /* The 24-cell */ 2818333 wikitext text/x-wiki = Golden chords of the 120-cell = {{align|center|David Brooks Christie}} {{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}} {{align|center|Draft in progress}} {{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}} <blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote> == Introduction == Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties. Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry. Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation. We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope. == Visualizing the 120-cell == {| class="wikitable floatright" width="400" |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all. |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered. |} [[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells. The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}} Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all. Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex. == Compounds in the 120-cell == The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell), is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope. The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell). The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). This implies that 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which will contain 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells). The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). This implies that the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell). These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}} So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside. The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell. == Thirty distinguished distances == The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides. {| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" !rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math> !rowspan=2|arc !rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math> !rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|Steinbach roots !colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell |- !colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math> !colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math> |- |<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small> |<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.270091</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.437016</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small> |<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small> |<small><math>0.618034</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.28825</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.707107</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>2.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small> |<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.756934</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.80252</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small> |<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.831254</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.07768</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small> |<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.93913</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.47709</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>3.70246</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small> |<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.09132</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>4.04057</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small> |<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.14412</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>4.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small> |<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.17557</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.3525</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.22474</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.53457</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small> |<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.30038</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.8146</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small> |<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.345</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>4.9798</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small> |<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.41421</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small> |<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.4802</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.48037</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small> |<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.51954</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>5.62605</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small> |<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.58114</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small> |<small><math>5.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small> |<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>5.9907</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small> |<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.64042</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>6.07359</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small> |<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.67601</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.20537</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small> |<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>1.73205</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.41285</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small> |<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.7658</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>6.53779</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small> |<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.81907</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.73503</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small> |<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.85123</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small> |<small><math>6.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small> |<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.87083</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.92667</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small> |<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>1.90211</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small> |<small><math>7.0425</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small> |<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.95167</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>7.22598</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small> |<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.98168</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>7.33708</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small> |<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>2.</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>7.40492</math></small> |- |rowspan=4 colspan=6| |rowspan=4 colspan=4| <small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br> <small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br> <small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br> <small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small> |colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>1.618034</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>3.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |} == The 16-cell 4-orthoplex == In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]]. A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math> The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math> Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>. If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>. [[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]] The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron. The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each. The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell. The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs. The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}} Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math> We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal. Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>i \times 45^\circ</math>. [[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]] [[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements. The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The <math>r_2</math> chords form the ''edge polygon'' of the 16-cell {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane. The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''. The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes six 90° turns and reaches its antipodal position. The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation. We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''characteristic rotation of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>. == The 8-cell tesseract == The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral. [[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]] The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube. The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedra]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes. We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted 3 times, bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each rung is a tesseract edge. The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing. Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}} A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects. == The 24-cell == [[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]] In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes. The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron. The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> [[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]] The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters. The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}, which has chords: :<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math> when <math>r_1=1</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. [[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]] [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges, for example in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. We can also rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 24-cell edges. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in any invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit, and its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. There are two distinct ways we can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in invariant planes containing 24-cell edges, called the ''characteristic left rotation'' and the ''characteristic right rotation'', respectively. [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant planes containing two <math>r_{1}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic left rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> 2{12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_5</math> chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> over <math>r_5</math> chords form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The orbit of each vertex traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation. [[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/8}=8{3}<small> </small>shows 8 of 32<small> <math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> triangles in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing six <math>r_{2}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{4}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_4</math> 8{3} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_4</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_4</math> chord makes four 30° turns. Eight Clifford parallel triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>r_4</math> chords form a circular fibration of 8 twisted parallel strands {24/8}=8{3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In three successive 60° isoclinic displacements each vertex circles a triangle and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the four distinct triangles which intersect at the vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting dodecagram of 12 <math>r_4</math> chords. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="6" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations |- ! colspan="3" |Edge chord ! colspan="3" |Isocline chord |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |15° |165° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |30° |150° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |45° |135° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |75° |105° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |90° |90° |} By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we found three distinct isoclinic rotations. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these and also three other distinct isoclinic rotations. Each row of the table is a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords that sum to 180°. The edge chords form the rotation's edge {24}-gon, and lie in invariant planes of the rotation. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford {24}-gon and lie in the invariant planes completely orthogonal to the edge planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°. We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing four <math>t_{6}</math> edges each, over <math>t_{6}</math> isocline chords. The <math>t_6</math> chord is the 16-cell-<math>r_2</math> chord. The edge polygon and the Clifford polygon are both {24/6}=6{4}. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell''. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>t_6</math> chord makes six 15° turns. Six Clifford parallel skew triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>t_6</math> chords form a circular fibration of six twisted parallel strands that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. <s>In every 360° of isoclinic rotation each vertex circles a skew great square and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the three distinct skew squares which intersect at the vertex and the three distinct skew squares which intersect at its antipodal vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting {24}-gon of <math>t_6</math> chords.</s> ... {{Clear}} == The 600-cell == [[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]] The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math>, the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center. In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes. The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has these distinct chords: :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math> :<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are: [[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]] :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short edge chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long isocline chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math> |0° | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0° |180° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |12° |168° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |24° |156° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |36° |144° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |48° |132° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math> |72° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |72° |108° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |84° |96° |} The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a discrete isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell in invariant central planes containing the edges of the short chord {30}-gon, over the isocline chords of the long chord {30}-gon, the rotation's Clifford polygon. Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This [''great square left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This [''invariant great hexagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''invariant great decagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This [''great decagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} == The 5-cell 4-simplex == {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="9" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_0</math> |0° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{30}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_1</math> |15.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14} |164.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{29}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.073~}} |{{radic|3.927~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.270~ |1.982~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_2</math> |25.2~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |154.8~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{28}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.191~}} |{{radic|3.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.437~ |1.952~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_3</math> |36° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{27}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_4</math> |41.4~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |138.6~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{26}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.5}} |{{radic|3.5}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.707~ |1.871~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_5</math> |44.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |135.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{25}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.573~}} |{{radic|3.427~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.757~ |1.851~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_6</math> |49.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |130.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{24}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.691~}} |{{radic|3.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.831~ |1.819~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_7</math> |56° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |124° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{23}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.882~}} |{{radic|3.118~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.939~ |1.766~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_8</math> |60° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{22}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_9</math> |66.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |113.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{21}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.191~}} |{{radic|2.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.091~ |1.676~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{10}</math> |69.8~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |110.2~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{20}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.309~}} |{{radic|2.691~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.144~ |1.640~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{11}</math> |72° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{19}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{12}</math> |75.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |104.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{18}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1.5}} |{{radic|2.5}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1.224~ |1.581~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{13}</math> |81.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |98.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{17}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.691~}} |{{radic|2.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.300~ |1.520~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{14}</math> |84.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |95.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{16}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.809~}} |{{radic|2.191~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.345~ |1.480~ |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |90° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} |90° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |} The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section. Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell and the planar {30)-gon. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is what's new in the 120-cell. ... {{Clear}} == Finally the 120-cell == The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron. The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure. ... {{Clear}} == Conclusions == Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope in its invariant edge planes. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.] The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure in the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact. == Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes == {{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}} == Notes == {{Notelist}} == Citations == {{Reflist}} == References == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }} {{Refend}} ri97no8lp30n4i7nwsxaak6pxncu4q7 2818334 2818333 2026-07-14T22:45:02Z Dc.samizdat 2856930 /* The 8-cell tesseract */ 2818334 wikitext text/x-wiki = Golden chords of the 120-cell = {{align|center|David Brooks Christie}} {{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}} {{align|center|Draft in progress}} {{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}} <blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote> == Introduction == Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties. Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry. Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation. We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope. == Visualizing the 120-cell == {| class="wikitable floatright" width="400" |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all. |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered. |} [[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells. The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}} Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all. Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex. == Compounds in the 120-cell == The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell), is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope. The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell). The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). This implies that 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which will contain 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells). The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). This implies that the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell). These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}} So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside. The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell. == Thirty distinguished distances == The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides. {| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" !rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math> !rowspan=2|arc !rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math> !rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|Steinbach roots !colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell |- !colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math> !colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math> |- |<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small> |<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.270091</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.437016</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small> |<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small> |<small><math>0.618034</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.28825</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.707107</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>2.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small> |<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.756934</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.80252</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small> |<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.831254</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.07768</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small> |<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.93913</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.47709</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>3.70246</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small> |<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.09132</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>4.04057</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small> |<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.14412</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>4.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small> |<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.17557</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.3525</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.22474</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.53457</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small> |<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.30038</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.8146</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small> |<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.345</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>4.9798</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small> |<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.41421</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small> |<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.4802</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.48037</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small> |<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.51954</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>5.62605</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small> |<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.58114</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small> |<small><math>5.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small> |<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>5.9907</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small> |<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.64042</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>6.07359</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small> |<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.67601</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.20537</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small> |<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>1.73205</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.41285</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small> |<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.7658</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>6.53779</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small> |<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.81907</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.73503</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small> |<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.85123</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small> |<small><math>6.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small> |<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.87083</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.92667</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small> |<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>1.90211</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small> |<small><math>7.0425</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small> |<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.95167</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>7.22598</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small> |<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.98168</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>7.33708</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small> |<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>2.</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>7.40492</math></small> |- |rowspan=4 colspan=6| |rowspan=4 colspan=4| <small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br> <small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br> <small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br> <small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small> |colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>1.618034</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>3.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |} == The 16-cell 4-orthoplex == In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]]. A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math> The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math> Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>. If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>. [[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]] The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron. The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each. The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell. The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs. The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}} Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math> We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal. Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>i \times 45^\circ</math>. [[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]] [[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements. The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The <math>r_2</math> chords form the ''edge polygon'' of the 16-cell {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane. The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''. The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes six 90° turns and reaches its antipodal position. The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation. We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''characteristic rotation of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>. == The 8-cell tesseract == The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral. [[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]] The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube. The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedra]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes. We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted 3 times, then bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each rung is a tesseract edge. The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing. Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}} A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects. == The 24-cell == [[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]] In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes. The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron. The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> [[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]] The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters. The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}, which has chords: :<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math> when <math>r_1=1</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. [[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]] [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges, for example in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is a 12-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each triangular step is a 24-cell face. We can also rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 24-cell edges. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in any invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit, and its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. There are two distinct ways we can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in invariant planes containing 24-cell edges, called the ''characteristic left rotation'' and the ''characteristic right rotation'', respectively. [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant planes containing two <math>r_{1}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic left rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> 2{12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_5</math> chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> over <math>r_5</math> chords form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The orbit of each vertex traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation. [[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/8}=8{3}<small> </small>shows 8 of 32<small> <math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> triangles in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing six <math>r_{2}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{4}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_4</math> 8{3} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_4</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_4</math> chord makes four 30° turns. Eight Clifford parallel triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>r_4</math> chords form a circular fibration of 8 twisted parallel strands {24/8}=8{3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In three successive 60° isoclinic displacements each vertex circles a triangle and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the four distinct triangles which intersect at the vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting dodecagram of 12 <math>r_4</math> chords. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="6" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations |- ! colspan="3" |Edge chord ! colspan="3" |Isocline chord |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |15° |165° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |30° |150° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |45° |135° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |75° |105° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |90° |90° |} By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we found three distinct isoclinic rotations. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these and also three other distinct isoclinic rotations. Each row of the table is a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords that sum to 180°. The edge chords form the rotation's edge {24}-gon, and lie in invariant planes of the rotation. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford {24}-gon and lie in the invariant planes completely orthogonal to the edge planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°. We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing four <math>t_{6}</math> edges each, over <math>t_{6}</math> isocline chords. The <math>t_6</math> chord is the 16-cell-<math>r_2</math> chord. The edge polygon and the Clifford polygon are both {24/6}=6{4}. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell''. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>t_6</math> chord makes six 15° turns. Six Clifford parallel skew triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>t_6</math> chords form a circular fibration of six twisted parallel strands that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. <s>In every 360° of isoclinic rotation each vertex circles a skew great square and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the three distinct skew squares which intersect at the vertex and the three distinct skew squares which intersect at its antipodal vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting {24}-gon of <math>t_6</math> chords.</s> ... {{Clear}} == The 600-cell == [[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]] The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math>, the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center. In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes. The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has these distinct chords: :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math> :<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are: [[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]] :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short edge chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long isocline chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math> |0° | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0° |180° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |12° |168° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |24° |156° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |36° |144° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |48° |132° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math> |72° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |72° |108° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |84° |96° |} The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a discrete isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell in invariant central planes containing the edges of the short chord {30}-gon, over the isocline chords of the long chord {30}-gon, the rotation's Clifford polygon. Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This [''great square left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This [''invariant great hexagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''invariant great decagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This [''great decagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} == The 5-cell 4-simplex == {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="9" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_0</math> |0° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{30}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_1</math> |15.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14} |164.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{29}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.073~}} |{{radic|3.927~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.270~ |1.982~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_2</math> |25.2~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |154.8~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{28}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.191~}} |{{radic|3.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.437~ |1.952~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_3</math> |36° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{27}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_4</math> |41.4~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |138.6~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{26}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.5}} |{{radic|3.5}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.707~ |1.871~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_5</math> |44.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |135.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{25}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.573~}} |{{radic|3.427~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.757~ |1.851~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_6</math> |49.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |130.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{24}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.691~}} |{{radic|3.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.831~ |1.819~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_7</math> |56° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |124° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{23}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.882~}} |{{radic|3.118~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.939~ |1.766~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_8</math> |60° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{22}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_9</math> |66.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |113.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{21}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.191~}} |{{radic|2.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.091~ |1.676~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{10}</math> |69.8~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |110.2~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{20}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.309~}} |{{radic|2.691~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.144~ |1.640~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{11}</math> |72° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{19}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{12}</math> |75.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |104.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{18}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1.5}} |{{radic|2.5}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1.224~ |1.581~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{13}</math> |81.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |98.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{17}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.691~}} |{{radic|2.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.300~ |1.520~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{14}</math> |84.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |95.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{16}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.809~}} |{{radic|2.191~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.345~ |1.480~ |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |90° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} |90° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |} The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section. Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell and the planar {30)-gon. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is what's new in the 120-cell. ... {{Clear}} == Finally the 120-cell == The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron. The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure. ... {{Clear}} == Conclusions == Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope in its invariant edge planes. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.] The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure in the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact. == Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes == {{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}} == Notes == {{Notelist}} == Citations == {{Reflist}} == References == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }} {{Refend}} ad183k26f67dkiuhywobqc13hr3fudm 2818335 2818334 2026-07-14T23:05:56Z Dc.samizdat 2856930 /* The 24-cell */ 2818335 wikitext text/x-wiki = Golden chords of the 120-cell = {{align|center|David Brooks Christie}} {{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}} {{align|center|Draft in progress}} {{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}} <blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote> == Introduction == Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties. Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry. Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation. We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope. == Visualizing the 120-cell == {| class="wikitable floatright" width="400" |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all. |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered. |} [[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells. The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}} Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all. Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex. == Compounds in the 120-cell == The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell), is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope. The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell). The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). This implies that 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which will contain 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells). The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). This implies that the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell). These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}} So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside. The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell. == Thirty distinguished distances == The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides. {| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" !rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math> !rowspan=2|arc !rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math> !rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|Steinbach roots !colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell |- !colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math> !colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math> |- |<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small> |<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.270091</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.437016</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small> |<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small> |<small><math>0.618034</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.28825</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.707107</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>2.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small> |<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.756934</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.80252</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small> |<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.831254</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.07768</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small> |<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.93913</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.47709</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>3.70246</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small> |<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.09132</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>4.04057</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small> |<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.14412</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>4.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small> |<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.17557</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.3525</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.22474</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.53457</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small> |<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.30038</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.8146</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small> |<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.345</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>4.9798</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small> |<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.41421</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small> |<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.4802</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.48037</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small> |<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.51954</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>5.62605</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small> |<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.58114</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small> |<small><math>5.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small> |<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>5.9907</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small> |<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.64042</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>6.07359</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small> |<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.67601</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.20537</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small> |<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>1.73205</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.41285</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small> |<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.7658</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>6.53779</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small> |<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.81907</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.73503</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small> |<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.85123</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small> |<small><math>6.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small> |<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.87083</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.92667</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small> |<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>1.90211</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small> |<small><math>7.0425</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small> |<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.95167</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>7.22598</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small> |<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.98168</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>7.33708</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small> |<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>2.</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>7.40492</math></small> |- |rowspan=4 colspan=6| |rowspan=4 colspan=4| <small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br> <small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br> <small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br> <small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small> |colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>1.618034</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>3.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |} == The 16-cell 4-orthoplex == In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]]. A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math> The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math> Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>. If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>. [[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]] The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron. The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each. The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell. The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs. The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}} Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math> We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal. Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>i \times 45^\circ</math>. [[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]] [[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements. The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The <math>r_2</math> chords form the ''edge polygon'' of the 16-cell {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane. The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''. The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes six 90° turns and reaches its antipodal position. The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation. We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''characteristic rotation of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>. == The 8-cell tesseract == The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral. [[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]] The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube. The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedra]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes. We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted 3 times, then bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each rung is a tesseract edge. The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing. Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}} A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects. == The 24-cell == [[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]] In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes. The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron. The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> [[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]] The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters. The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}, which has chords: :<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math> when <math>r_1=1</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. [[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]] [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges, for example in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords. We can also rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 24-cell edges. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in any invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as all the invariant planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit, and its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. There are two distinct ways we can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in invariant planes containing 24-cell edges, called the ''characteristic left rotation'' and the ''characteristic right rotation'', respectively. [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant planes containing two <math>r_{1}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic left rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> 2{12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_5</math> chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> over <math>r_5</math> chords form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The orbit of each vertex traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation. [[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/8}=8{3}<small> </small>shows 8 of 32<small> <math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> triangles in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing six <math>r_{2}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{4}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_4</math> 8{3} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_4</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_4</math> chord makes four 30° turns. Eight Clifford parallel triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>r_4</math> chords form a circular fibration of 8 twisted parallel strands {24/8}=8{3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In three successive 60° isoclinic displacements each vertex circles a triangle and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the four distinct triangles which intersect at the vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting dodecagram of 12 <math>r_4</math> chords. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="6" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations |- ! colspan="3" |Edge chord ! colspan="3" |Isocline chord |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |15° |165° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |30° |150° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |45° |135° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |75° |105° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |90° |90° |} By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we found three distinct isoclinic rotations. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these and also three other distinct isoclinic rotations. Each row of the table is a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords that sum to 180°. The edge chords form the rotation's edge {24}-gon, and lie in invariant planes of the rotation. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford {24}-gon and lie in the invariant planes completely orthogonal to the edge planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°. We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing four <math>t_{6}</math> edges each, over <math>t_{6}</math> isocline chords. The <math>t_6</math> chord is the 16-cell-<math>r_2</math> chord. The edge polygon and the Clifford polygon are both {24/6}=6{4}. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell''. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>t_6</math> chord makes six 15° turns. Six Clifford parallel skew triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>t_6</math> chords form a circular fibration of six twisted parallel strands that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. <s>In every 360° of isoclinic rotation each vertex circles a skew great square and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the three distinct skew squares which intersect at the vertex and the three distinct skew squares which intersect at its antipodal vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting {24}-gon of <math>t_6</math> chords.</s> ... {{Clear}} == The 600-cell == [[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]] The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math>, the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center. In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes. The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has these distinct chords: :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math> :<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are: [[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]] :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short edge chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long isocline chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math> |0° | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0° |180° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |12° |168° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |24° |156° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |36° |144° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |48° |132° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math> |72° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |72° |108° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |84° |96° |} The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a discrete isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell in invariant central planes containing the edges of the short chord {30}-gon, over the isocline chords of the long chord {30}-gon, the rotation's Clifford polygon. Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This [''great square left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This [''invariant great hexagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''invariant great decagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This [''great decagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} == The 5-cell 4-simplex == {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="9" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_0</math> |0° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{30}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_1</math> |15.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14} |164.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{29}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.073~}} |{{radic|3.927~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.270~ |1.982~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_2</math> |25.2~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |154.8~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{28}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.191~}} |{{radic|3.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.437~ |1.952~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_3</math> |36° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{27}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_4</math> |41.4~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |138.6~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{26}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.5}} |{{radic|3.5}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.707~ |1.871~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_5</math> |44.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |135.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{25}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.573~}} |{{radic|3.427~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.757~ |1.851~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_6</math> |49.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |130.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{24}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.691~}} |{{radic|3.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.831~ |1.819~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_7</math> |56° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |124° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{23}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.882~}} |{{radic|3.118~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.939~ |1.766~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_8</math> |60° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{22}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_9</math> |66.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |113.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{21}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.191~}} |{{radic|2.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.091~ |1.676~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{10}</math> |69.8~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |110.2~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{20}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.309~}} |{{radic|2.691~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.144~ |1.640~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{11}</math> |72° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{19}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{12}</math> |75.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |104.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{18}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1.5}} |{{radic|2.5}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1.224~ |1.581~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{13}</math> |81.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |98.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{17}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.691~}} |{{radic|2.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.300~ |1.520~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{14}</math> |84.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |95.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{16}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.809~}} |{{radic|2.191~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.345~ |1.480~ |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |90° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} |90° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |} The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section. Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell and the planar {30)-gon. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is what's new in the 120-cell. ... {{Clear}} == Finally the 120-cell == The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron. The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure. ... {{Clear}} == Conclusions == Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope in its invariant edge planes. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.] The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure in the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact. == Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes == {{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}} == Notes == {{Notelist}} == Citations == {{Reflist}} == References == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }} {{Refend}} 7ghockyndvadxw4gcpaqzvg835qu6vk 2818339 2818335 2026-07-15T03:06:55Z Dc.samizdat 2856930 /* The 16-cell 4-orthoplex */ 2818339 wikitext text/x-wiki = Golden chords of the 120-cell = {{align|center|David Brooks Christie}} {{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}} {{align|center|Draft in progress}} {{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}} <blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote> == Introduction == Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties. Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry. Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation. We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope. == Visualizing the 120-cell == {| class="wikitable floatright" width="400" |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all. |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered. |} [[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells. The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}} Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all. Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex. == Compounds in the 120-cell == The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell), is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope. The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell). The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). This implies that 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which will contain 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells). The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). This implies that the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell). These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}} So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside. The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell. == Thirty distinguished distances == The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides. {| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" !rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math> !rowspan=2|arc !rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math> !rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|Steinbach roots !colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell |- !colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math> !colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math> |- |<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small> |<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.270091</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.437016</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small> |<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small> |<small><math>0.618034</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.28825</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.707107</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>2.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small> |<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.756934</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.80252</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small> |<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.831254</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.07768</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small> |<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.93913</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.47709</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>3.70246</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small> |<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.09132</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>4.04057</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small> |<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.14412</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>4.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small> |<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.17557</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.3525</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.22474</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.53457</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small> |<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.30038</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.8146</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small> |<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.345</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>4.9798</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small> |<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.41421</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small> |<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.4802</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.48037</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small> |<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.51954</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>5.62605</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small> |<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.58114</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small> |<small><math>5.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small> |<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>5.9907</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small> |<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.64042</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>6.07359</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small> |<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.67601</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.20537</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small> |<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>1.73205</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.41285</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small> |<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.7658</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>6.53779</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small> |<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.81907</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.73503</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small> |<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.85123</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small> |<small><math>6.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small> |<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.87083</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.92667</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small> |<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>1.90211</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small> |<small><math>7.0425</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small> |<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.95167</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>7.22598</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small> |<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.98168</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>7.33708</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small> |<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>2.</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>7.40492</math></small> |- |rowspan=4 colspan=6| |rowspan=4 colspan=4| <small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br> <small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br> <small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br> <small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small> |colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>1.618034</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>3.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |} == The 16-cell 4-orthoplex == In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]]. A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math> The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math> Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>. If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>. [[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]] The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron. The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each. The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell. The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs. The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}} Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math> We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal. Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>i \times 45^\circ</math>. [[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]] [[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements. The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The <math>r_2</math> chords form the ''edge polygon'' of the 16-cell {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane. The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''. The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes six 90° turns and reaches its antipodal position. The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation. We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''characteristic rotation of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>. == The 8-cell tesseract == The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral. [[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]] The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube. The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedra]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes. We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted 3 times, then bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each rung is a tesseract edge. The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing. Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}} A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects. == The 24-cell == [[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]] In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes. The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron. The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> [[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]] The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters. The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}, which has chords: :<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math> when <math>r_1=1</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. [[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]] [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges, for example in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords. We can also rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 24-cell edges. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in any invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as all the invariant planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit, and its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. There are two distinct ways we can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in invariant planes containing 24-cell edges, called the ''characteristic left rotation'' and the ''characteristic right rotation'', respectively. [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant planes containing two <math>r_{1}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic left rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> 2{12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_5</math> chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> over <math>r_5</math> chords form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The orbit of each vertex traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation. [[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/8}=8{3}<small> </small>shows 8 of 32<small> <math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> triangles in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing six <math>r_{2}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{4}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_4</math> 8{3} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_4</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_4</math> chord makes four 30° turns. Eight Clifford parallel triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>r_4</math> chords form a circular fibration of 8 twisted parallel strands {24/8}=8{3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In three successive 60° isoclinic displacements each vertex circles a triangle and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the four distinct triangles which intersect at the vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting dodecagram of 12 <math>r_4</math> chords. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="6" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations |- ! colspan="3" |Edge chord ! colspan="3" |Isocline chord |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |15° |165° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |30° |150° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |45° |135° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |75° |105° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |90° |90° |} By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we found three distinct isoclinic rotations. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these and also three other distinct isoclinic rotations. Each row of the table is a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords that sum to 180°. The edge chords form the rotation's edge {24}-gon, and lie in invariant planes of the rotation. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford {24}-gon and lie in the invariant planes completely orthogonal to the edge planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°. We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing four <math>t_{6}</math> edges each, over <math>t_{6}</math> isocline chords. The <math>t_6</math> chord is the 16-cell-<math>r_2</math> chord. The edge polygon and the Clifford polygon are both {24/6}=6{4}. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell''. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>t_6</math> chord makes six 15° turns. Six Clifford parallel skew triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>t_6</math> chords form a circular fibration of six twisted parallel strands that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. <s>In every 360° of isoclinic rotation each vertex circles a skew great square and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the three distinct skew squares which intersect at the vertex and the three distinct skew squares which intersect at its antipodal vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting {24}-gon of <math>t_6</math> chords.</s> ... {{Clear}} == The 600-cell == [[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]] The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math>, the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center. In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes. The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has these distinct chords: :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math> :<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are: [[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]] :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short edge chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long isocline chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math> |0° | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0° |180° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |12° |168° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |24° |156° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |36° |144° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |48° |132° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math> |72° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |72° |108° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |84° |96° |} The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a discrete isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell in invariant central planes containing the edges of the short chord {30}-gon, over the isocline chords of the long chord {30}-gon, the rotation's Clifford polygon. Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This [''great square left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This [''invariant great hexagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''invariant great decagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This [''great decagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} == The 5-cell 4-simplex == {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="9" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_0</math> |0° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{30}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_1</math> |15.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14} |164.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{29}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.073~}} |{{radic|3.927~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.270~ |1.982~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_2</math> |25.2~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |154.8~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{28}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.191~}} |{{radic|3.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.437~ |1.952~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_3</math> |36° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{27}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_4</math> |41.4~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |138.6~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{26}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.5}} |{{radic|3.5}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.707~ |1.871~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_5</math> |44.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |135.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{25}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.573~}} |{{radic|3.427~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.757~ |1.851~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_6</math> |49.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |130.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{24}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.691~}} |{{radic|3.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.831~ |1.819~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_7</math> |56° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |124° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{23}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.882~}} |{{radic|3.118~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.939~ |1.766~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_8</math> |60° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{22}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_9</math> |66.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |113.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{21}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.191~}} |{{radic|2.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.091~ |1.676~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{10}</math> |69.8~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |110.2~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{20}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.309~}} |{{radic|2.691~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.144~ |1.640~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{11}</math> |72° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{19}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{12}</math> |75.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |104.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{18}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1.5}} |{{radic|2.5}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1.224~ |1.581~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{13}</math> |81.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |98.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{17}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.691~}} |{{radic|2.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.300~ |1.520~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{14}</math> |84.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |95.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{16}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.809~}} |{{radic|2.191~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.345~ |1.480~ |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |90° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} |90° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |} The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section. Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell and the planar {30)-gon. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is what's new in the 120-cell. ... {{Clear}} == Finally the 120-cell == The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron. The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure. ... {{Clear}} == Conclusions == Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope in its invariant edge planes. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.] The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure in the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact. == Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes == {{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}} == Notes == {{Notelist}} == Citations == {{Reflist}} == References == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }} {{Refend}} p9j2jao1p8glss3nkzm80jsbe6y5zt9 2818340 2818339 2026-07-15T03:17:58Z Dc.samizdat 2856930 /* Compounds in the 120-cell */ 2818340 wikitext text/x-wiki = Golden chords of the 120-cell = {{align|center|David Brooks Christie}} {{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}} {{align|center|Draft in progress}} {{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}} <blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote> == Introduction == Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties. Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry. Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation. We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope. == Visualizing the 120-cell == {| class="wikitable floatright" width="400" |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all. |style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered. |} [[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells. The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}} Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all. Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex. == Compounds in the 120-cell == The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell), is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope. The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell). The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells). The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell). These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}} So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside. The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell. == Thirty distinguished distances == The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides. {| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" !rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math> !rowspan=2|arc !rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math> !rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small> !rowspan=2|Steinbach roots !colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell |- !colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math> !colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math> |- |<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small> |<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.270091</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.437016</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small> |<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small> |<small><math>0.618034</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.28825</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.707107</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>2.61803</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small> |<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.756934</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>2.80252</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small> |<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>0.831254</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.07768</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small> |<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>0.93913</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>3.47709</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>1.</math></small> |<small><math>1</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>3.70246</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small> |<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.09132</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small> |<small><math>4.04057</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small> |<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.14412</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>4.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small> |<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.17557</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.3525</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.22474</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.53457</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small> |<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.30038</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>4.8146</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small> |<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.345</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>4.9798</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small> |<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.41421</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.23607</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small> |<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.4802</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>5.48037</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small> |<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.51954</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>5.62605</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small> |<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.58114</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small> |<small><math>5.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small> |<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.61803</math></small> |<small><math>\phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>5.9907</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small> |<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.64042</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small> |<small><math>6.07359</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small> |<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.67601</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.20537</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small> |<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>1.73205</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.41285</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small> |<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.7658</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small> |<small><math>6.53779</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small> |<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.81907</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small> |<small><math>6.73503</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small> |<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.85123</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small> |<small><math>6.8541</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small> |<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>1.87083</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>6.92667</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small> |<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>1.90211</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small> |<small><math>7.0425</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small> |<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>1.95167</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small> |<small><math>7.22598</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small> |<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math></math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small> |<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small> |<small><math>1.98168</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small> |<small><math>7.33708</math></small> |- |<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small> |<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small> |<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>2.</math></small> |<small><math>2</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small> |<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small> |<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small> |<small><math>7.40492</math></small> |- |rowspan=4 colspan=6| |rowspan=4 colspan=4| <small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br> <small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br> <small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br> <small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br> <small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small> |colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>1.618034</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>3.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |- |colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small> |<small><math>2.854102</math></small> |} == The 16-cell 4-orthoplex == In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]]. A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math> The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math> Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>. If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length: :<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math> All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>. [[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]] The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron. The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each. The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell. The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs. The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}} Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math> We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal. Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>i \times 45^\circ</math>. [[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]] [[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements. The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The <math>r_2</math> chords form the ''edge polygon'' of the 16-cell {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane. The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''. The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes six 90° turns and reaches its antipodal position. The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation. We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''characteristic rotation of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>. == The 8-cell tesseract == The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral. [[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]] The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube. The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedra]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes. We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted 3 times, then bent into a circle in the fourth dimension. Each rung is a tesseract edge. The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing. Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}} A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects. == The 24-cell == [[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]] In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes. The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron. The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math> [[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]] The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters. The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}, which has chords: :<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that: :<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math> when <math>r_1=1</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are: :<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. [[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]] [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges, for example in the characteristic rotation of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords. We can also rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 24-cell edges. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in any invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as all the invariant planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit, and its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. There are two distinct ways we can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in invariant planes containing 24-cell edges, called the ''characteristic left rotation'' and the ''characteristic right rotation'', respectively. [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant planes containing two <math>r_{1}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic left rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> 2{12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_5</math> chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> over <math>r_5</math> chords form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The orbit of each vertex traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation. [[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/8}=8{3}<small> </small>shows 8 of 32<small> <math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> triangles in the 24-cell]] We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing six <math>r_{2}</math> edges each, over <math>r_{4}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_4</math> 8{3} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_4</math>. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_4</math> chord makes four 30° turns. Eight Clifford parallel triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>r_4</math> chords form a circular fibration of 8 twisted parallel strands {24/8}=8{3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In three successive 60° isoclinic displacements each vertex circles a triangle and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the four distinct triangles which intersect at the vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting dodecagram of 12 <math>r_4</math> chords. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="6" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations |- ! colspan="3" |Edge chord ! colspan="3" |Isocline chord |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |15° |165° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |30° |150° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |45° |135° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |75° |105° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |90° |90° |} By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we found three distinct isoclinic rotations. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these and also three other distinct isoclinic rotations. Each row of the table is a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords that sum to 180°. The edge chords form the rotation's edge {24}-gon, and lie in invariant planes of the rotation. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford {24}-gon and lie in the invariant planes completely orthogonal to the edge planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°. We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in Clifford parallel invariant planes containing 16-cell edges in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing four <math>t_{6}</math> edges each, over <math>t_{6}</math> isocline chords. The <math>t_6</math> chord is the 16-cell-<math>r_2</math> chord. The edge polygon and the Clifford polygon are both {24/6}=6{4}. This is the ''characteristic right rotation of the 24-cell''. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>t_6</math> chord makes six 15° turns. Six Clifford parallel skew triangle geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>2\pi</math> over <math>t_6</math> chords form a circular fibration of six twisted parallel strands that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. <s>In every 360° of isoclinic rotation each vertex circles a skew great square and returns to its original position, but the 24-cell returns to its original orientation only after each vertex has completed circuits of the three distinct skew squares which intersect at the vertex and the three distinct skew squares which intersect at its antipodal vertex. The isocline curves over a self-intersecting {24}-gon of <math>t_6</math> chords.</s> ... {{Clear}} == The 600-cell == [[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]] The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords. Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math>, the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center. In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes. The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has these distinct chords: :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math> :<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are: [[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]] :<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> :<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math> :<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math> :<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math> :<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math> :<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math> :<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math> :<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math> Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation. {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short edge chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long isocline chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math> |0° | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0° |180° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |12° |168° |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |24° |156° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math> |36° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |36° |144° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |48° |132° |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math> |60° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | |60° |120° |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math> |72° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: yellow;" | |72° |108° |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math> |90° | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron | rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |90° | rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |- style="background: seashell;" | |84° |96° |} The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a discrete isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell in invariant central planes containing the edges of the short chord {30}-gon, over the isocline chords of the long chord {30}-gon, the rotation's Clifford polygon. Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). [[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This [''great square left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} [[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]] We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This [''invariant great hexagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''invariant great decagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions. The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This [''great decagon left rotation characteristic of the 600-cell]'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. {{Clear}} == The 5-cell 4-simplex == {| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center" ! colspan="9" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra |- ! colspan="3" |Short chord ! Section ! colspan="3" |Long chord |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_0</math> |0° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2} |180° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{30}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0}} |{{radic|4}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0 |2 |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_1</math> |15.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14} |164.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{29}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.073~}} |{{radic|3.927~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.270~ |1.982~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_2</math> |25.2~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13} |154.8~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{28}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.191~}} |{{radic|3.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.437~ |1.952~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_3</math> |36° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2} |144° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{27}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|0.382~}} |{{radic|3.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |0.618~ |1.902~ |- style="background: gainsboro;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_4</math> |41.4~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |138.6~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{26}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.5}} |{{radic|3.5}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.707~ |1.871~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_5</math> |44.5~° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11} |135.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{25}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|0.573~}} |{{radic|3.427~}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |0.757~ |1.851~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_6</math> |49.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |130.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{24}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.691~}} |{{radic|3.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.831~ |1.819~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_7</math> |56° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |124° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{23}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.882~}} |{{radic|3.118~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |0.939~ |1.766~ |- style="background: palegreen;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_8</math> |60° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3} |120° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{22}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1}} |{{radic|3}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1 |1.732~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_9</math> |66.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |113.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{21}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.191~}} |{{radic|2.809~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.091~ |1.676~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{10}</math> |69.8~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |110.2~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{20}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.309~}} |{{radic|2.691~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.144~ |1.640~ |- style="background: yellow;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{11}</math> |72° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3} |108° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{19}</math> |- style="background: yellow;" | |{{radic|1.382~}} |{{radic|2.618~}} |- style="background: yellow;" | |1.176~ |1.618~ |- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{12}</math> |75.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4} |104.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{18}</math> |- style="background: palegreen;" | |{{radic|1.5}} |{{radic|2.5}} |- style="background: palegreen;" | |1.224~ |1.581~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{13}</math> |81.1~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |98.9~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{17}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|1.691~}} |{{radic|2.309~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.300~ |1.520~ |- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{14}</math> |84.5~° | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | |95.5~° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{16}</math> |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |{{radic|0.809~}} |{{radic|2.191~}} |- style="background: gainsboro;" | |1.345~ |1.480~ |- style="background: seashell;" | | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |90° | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7} |90° | rowspan="3" |<math>c_{15}</math> |- style="background: seashell;" | |{{radic|2}} |{{radic|2}} |- style="background: seashell;" | |1.414~ |1.414~ |} The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section. Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell and the planar {30)-gon. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is what's new in the 120-cell. ... {{Clear}} == Finally the 120-cell == The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron. The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure. ... {{Clear}} == Conclusions == Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope in its invariant edge planes. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.] The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure in the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact. == Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes == {{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}} == Notes == {{Notelist}} == Citations == {{Reflist}} == References == {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }} * {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }} * {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }} {{Refend}} j4h8j4580azasgrejzd1jxl5zbd3jjq Wikiversity:Newsletters/Tech News/2026 4 329562 2818337 2812482 2026-07-15T02:01:11Z Codename Noreste 2969951 /* Tech News: 2026-08 */ archive from [[Wikiversity:Newsletters/Tech News]] ([[mw:c:Special:MyLanguage/User:JWBTH/CD|CD]]) 2818337 wikitext text/x-wiki == Tech News: 2026-03 == <section begin="technews-2026-W03"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/03|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2026-2027/Product & Technology OKRs|Meta]] and ''[[diffblog:2025/12/10/shaping-wikimedia-foundations-2026-2027-annual-goals-key-questions-for-the-wikimedia-movement/|Diff]]''. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the [[m:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2026-2027|talk page]]. '''Updates for editors''' * As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist/W372|Multiple watchlists]] project, the display of [[Special:EditWatchlist|EditWatchlist]] will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on [[Special:Search|Search]] will be updated too, as a part of the work on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist/W186|Revamp pagination / page navigation]] wish. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411596] * [[m:Special:GlobalWatchlist|The Global Watchlist]] is a MediaWiki [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist|extension]] that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular [[Special:Watchlist|Watchlist]], such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398361][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298919][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273526][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286309] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:28}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:28|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401293] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Citation tool|VisualEditor citation tool]] and [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Reference Previews|Reference Previews]] now support "map" as a reference type. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411083] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.10|MediaWiki]]/[[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.11|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/03|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W03"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 19:33, 12 January 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=29907192 --> == Tech News: 2026-04 == <section begin="technews-2026-W04"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/04|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * The tray shown on [[Special:Diff|Special:Diff]] in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402297] * [[m:Special:GlobalWatchlist|The Global Watchlist]] lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist|extension]] continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T412505][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287929][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262768][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414135] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406114] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * As mentioned in the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/44|October 2025 deprecation announcement]], MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the [https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RestSandbox REST Sandbox]. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6931/ #MW-Interfaces-Team board]. * Interactive reference documentation for the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia REST API|Wikimedia REST API]] has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/RESTBase|RESTBase]] (e.g.: <code dir=ltr>https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/</code>) are now redirected to the [[w:en:Special:RestSandbox|REST Sandbox]]. * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata Platform|WMF Wikidata Platform team]] (WDP) has published its [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Wikidata Platform team/Newsletter|January 2026 newsletter]]. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Global message delivery/Targets/WDP team updates|subscribe to the WDP newsletter]]! * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.12|MediaWiki]] '''Meetings and events''' * The [[mw:Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026|Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026]] will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there! '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/04|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W04"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 20:29, 19 January 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=29943403 --> == Tech News: 2026-05 == <section begin="technews-2026-W05"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/05|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Product and Technology Advisory Council/Year1 Reflections and Proposed Way Forward 2026 Update|proposed future]] of the [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/Product and Technology Advisory Council|Product and Technology Advisory Council]] until 28 February. * All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Two-factor authentication|two-factor authentication]] (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Product Safety and Integrity/Account Security|Account Security]] project. * Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398673] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332385] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * A new AbuseFilter variable, <code>account_type</code>, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the <code>createaccount</code> and <code>autocreateaccount</code> actions. As part of this change, the variable <code>accountname</code> has been renamed to <code>account_name</code>, and <code>accountname</code> is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414049] * Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to <code dir=ltr><nowiki>upload.wikimedia.org/…</nowiki></code> will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. [[phab:T414805|Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task]]. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.13|MediaWiki]] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/05|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W05"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 21:17, 26 January 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:UOzurumba (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=29969530 --> == Tech News: 2026-06 == <section begin="technews-2026-W06"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/06|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * The "{{int:pageinfo-toolboxlink}}" feature, which gives validating information about a page ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=info}} example]), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local [[{{ns:8}}:Pageinfo-header]] page created by individual users, it can now be removed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363726] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409669] '''Updates for technical contributors''' * There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414389] * The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:REST%20API MediaWiki REST API]. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6931/ #MW-Interfaces-Team board]. * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.14|MediaWiki]] '''Weekly highlight''' * Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2026-2027/Product & Technology OKRs|Meta]] and ''[[diffblog:2025/12/10/shaping-wikimedia-foundations-2026-2027-annual-goals-key-questions-for-the-wikimedia-movement/|Diff]]''. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the [[m:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2026-2027|talk page]]. '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/06|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W06"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 17:43, 2 February 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:STei (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30000986 --> == Tech News: 2026-07 == <section begin="technews-2026-W07"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/07|Translations]] are available. '''Updates for editors''' * [[File:Maki-gift-15.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item]] Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Watchlist labels|Watchlist labels]] feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors. * A new feature available on [[Special:Contributions|Special:Contributions]] shows [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts|temporary accounts]] that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts#February 2026: Improvements to the patroller tooling|Learn more]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415674] * When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414742] * The [[m:Special:GlobalWatchlist|Global Watchlist]] lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist|extension]] continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both [[d:|Wikidata]] and [[testwikidata:|testwikidata]]. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415440][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415458] * The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic links|deprecated in wikitext since 2021]] due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic words#isbn|built-in parser function]] <code dir=ltr><nowiki>{{#isbn}}</nowiki></code> available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145604] * Two new wikis have been created: ** a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in [[d:Q35401|Jju]] ([[w:kaj:|<code>w:kaj:</code>]]) [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413283] ** a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in [[d:Q1186896|Nawat]] ([[w:ppl:|<code>w:ppl:</code>]]) [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413273] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]]. '''Updates for technical contributors''' * A new global user group has been created: [[{{int:grouppage-local-bot}}|{{int:group-local-bot}}]]. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive [[w:en:Web scraping|web scrapers]]. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415588] * [[File:Reload icon with two arrows.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item]] Detailed code updates later this week: [[mw:MediaWiki 1.46/wmf.15|MediaWiki]] '''Meetings and events''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2026|MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026]] will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AZBWVI46SDEB65PGR5J6E4TYOQQEZXM7/] '''''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|Tech news]]''' prepared by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers|Tech News writers]] and posted by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery|bot]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute|Contribute]]&nbsp;• [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/07|Translate]]&nbsp;• [[m:Tech|Get help]]&nbsp;• [[m:Talk:Tech/News|Give feedback]]&nbsp;• [[m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors|Subscribe or unsubscribe]].'' </div><section end="technews-2026-W07"/> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">[[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]]</bdi> 23:30, 9 February 2026 (UTC) <!-- Message sent by User:Quiddity (WMF)@metawiki using the list at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors&oldid=30026671 --> == Tech News: 2026-08 == <section begin="technews-2026-W08"/><div class="plainlinks"> Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/08|Translations]] are available. '''Weekly highlight''' * The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Site Reliability Engineering|SRE Team]] will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Etherpad|Etherpad]] instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice. 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Page text is offered for review, critique, and collaborative refinement under [[Wikiversity:Copyrights|Wikiversity's standard licence]].'' == Status == Research project under active development. The framework is an interlinked set of technical and interpretive documents published at [https://ignorantobserver.xyz ignorantobserver.xyz] and archived on the [https://osf.io Open Science Framework]. ''The Ignorant Observer'' is the foundational paper. ''Where Did the Measurement Basis Come From?'' is the conceptual bridge that states, for a physics reader, exactly what claim the framework makes about the measurement basis. ''Bandwidth-Limited Quantum Control'' (BLQC) is the operational layer: a finite-rate phase-reference control law and its laboratory benchmark. ''A Capacity-Calibrated Protocol for Testing Penrose Objective Reduction'' applies that benchmark as the calibration arm of a test of gravitational collapse. A companion paper, ''The Born Rule from Finite Observation'', derives the binary Born form conditionally from finite-record geometry, and a no-go companion marks where that route stops. All work is single-authored. '''Where the framework stands (July 2026).''' IOF is an interpretation of quantum mechanics, not a rival to it. Its central empirical claim was once sharpened to a testable form — that finite basis tracking produces an ''unrecoverable'' visibility loss, a genuine deviation from standard quantum mechanics — and that strong reading was found to be '''excluded by existing experiments'''. What survives is a no-world-collapse interpretation carrying a ''recoverable'', calibrated control-theoretic subtheory. Everett is the preferred host developed in the corpus, but not an exclusive one; scoped single-history and pilot-wave hosts remain possible. This page raises the strong reading and states its exclusion rather than asserting it. == One-sentence thesis == Quantum measurement normally treats the basis as if it came from outside physics. The Ignorant Observer Framework treats the basis as a finite physical reference variable generated and tracked inside the apparatus itself — and reads quantum randomness as an observer-side appearance of bounded access, while the host supplies quantum phase and cross-context coherence. == What kind of claim this is == The framework has three layers, kept deliberately in separate books and adjudicated by different standards. Confusing them is the most common misreading, so they are named up front. * '''Operational layer''' (classical, measurable). The deficit κ = ''h''<sub>θ</sub> − ''C''<sub>eff</sub> ln 2 is a calibrated control law for the visibility of ''unconditioned'' records. Here ''h''<sub>θ</sub> is the source-side instability rate relevant to tracking the designated basis coordinate θ; it equals the full Kolmogorov–Sinai rate ''h''<sub>KS</sub> only in a one-effective-positive-mode source or when a projection result or coordinate-level calibration licenses that identification. Confirming the law '''benchmarks the apparatus; it does not discriminate IOF from quantum mechanics'''. Its hallmark is ''recoverability'': the lost contrast returns when the realised reference is supplied. * '''Foundations layer''' (structural reconstruction). A conditional derivation obtains the binary Born weight ''p''(θ) = cos²(θ/2) from finite-record geometry under two named bridge assumptions and extends it, through hierarchical binary discrimination, to one calibrated finite-outcome context. A companion no-go theorem shows that the same route cannot generate quantum phase or cross-context composition. This is a reconstruction, not an independent empirical prediction — a constant Fisher information ''I''(θ) is itself a standard-quantum prediction, so the test of the bridge premise is a consistency check. * '''Interpretation layer''' (the framework's identity). IOF adds no ontic collapse or stochastic selection. In the preferred Everettian host all outcomes occur; in scoped single-history hosts one outcome occurs without an IOF-added random selector. In either case apparent collapse is a record-relative information update, and randomness is the name a finite observer gives to an outcome whose determining dependencies it cannot resolve. The binary Born form is reconstructed on the finite-record side; phase and cross-context coherence remain host-side. Because the framework as a whole reproduces standard quantum mechanics, it is '''not falsifiable as a whole — by design, not by evasion'''. Its falsifiable content is modular and named: the operational control law (with the caveat that a failure there indicts the apparatus model and the calibration of ''C''<sub>eff</sub> and ''h''<sub>θ</sub> before it indicts the framework); the Fisher-homogeneity premise of the Born bridge (exposed in the falsifying direction only); and a registered chaotic-corner module carried with the prior strongly against it. == Core question == ''When the classical degrees of freedom that define a measurement basis generate task-relevant information faster than the apparatus can track it, do the apparatus's raw, unconditioned records lose interference contrast on a schedule set by the deficit'' κ = ''h''<sub>θ</sub> − ''C''<sub>eff</sub> ln 2 ''— and is that loss recoverable by conditioning on a log of the realised reference?'' The framework's answer is yes to both, and the second half is the point. The loss is reference-frame physics ''within'' quantum mechanics, not a new channel beyond it: standard quantum mechanics already says that records taken against a blurred reference lose contrast, and recovers that contrast once the reference is restored. IOF's contribution is to make the blur a calibrated, controllable quantity — a number a laboratory can dial up and down. == The strong reading, and why it was excluded == A bolder reading of the same formula would make the visibility loss ''unrecoverable'': a capacity-dependent suppression that no offline log could undo — that is, a measurable deviation from standard quantum mechanics. Sharpened, that reading requires the unresolved basis not to imprint on the records (a Markov condition giving a recovery statistic ''R''<sub>rec</sub> ≈ 0). Existing experiments exclude it. Logged-setting Bell tests recover the full quantum correlation when the realised settings are recorded and the data are sorted offline (Weihs et al. 1998); randomized-measurement tomography and classical shadows choose observables ''after'' measurement and reconstruct the quantum state (Huang, Kueng & Preskill 2020); correlation spectroscopy recovers coherence beyond the laser linewidth from cross-records. In every case the lost contrast comes back — ''R''<sub>rec</sub> ≈ 1 up to ordinary imperfections. The suppression is phase averaging over an unresolved reference, not a new physical channel; IOF's own diffusive formula correctly describes the ''raw, unconditioned'' signal, and the recovery is what reveals it as bookkeeping. The framework therefore raises the strong reading and excludes it; it does not claim it. One corner remains formally open, and is registered rather than asserted: recoverability under ''certified deterministic-chaotic'' basis dynamics has not been directly tested. It is carried in the protocol with the prior strongly against any difference from the diffusive case, and a positive there would overturn the corpus's own exclusion, not confirm a surviving claim. == Technical proposal == The framework introduces the following quantities. '''Effective channel capacity ''C''<sub>eff</sub>''' (bits/s): the information rate available to the basis-tracking control loop, operationalised as :''C''<sub>eff</sub> = ''r'' · ''b'' · ''f'' with ''r'' the update rate (Hz), ''b'' the effective bits per update that constrain the basis variable θ, and ''f'' ∈ (0,1] the fraction of updates that genuinely constrain θ after overhead and latency. ''C''<sub>eff</sub> is ultimately bounded by the Landauer limit on the controller's irreversible bookkeeping, :''C''<sub>eff</sub> ≤ ''P'' / (''k''<sub>B</sub> ''T'' ln 2), but this is a thermodynamic ceiling, not the operating point: realised ''C''<sub>eff</sub> is typically far lower and must be calibrated as ''useful'' information actually constraining θ, since added power can equally couple to actuator noise or backaction channels that do not constrain the basis. '''Task-relevant source rate ''h''<sub>θ</sub>''' (nats/s): the instability or information-production rate that actually burdens tracking of the designated basis coordinate θ. It is source-side, not the entropy of the observer. The full Kolmogorov–Sinai rate ''h''<sub>KS</sub> is the source's uncertainty-volume production rate and equals ''h''<sub>θ</sub> only in a one-effective-positive-mode reduction or under an explicit projection result or coordinate-level calibration. The nats/s convention lets κ combine ''h''<sub>θ</sub> and ''C''<sub>eff</sub> ln 2 in consistent units. '''Self-ignorance rate κ''' (s<sup>−1</sup>): :κ = ''h''<sub>θ</sub> − ''C''<sub>eff</sub> · ln 2 with two regimes. When κ < 0 (''capacity-wins''), basis-tracking error stays bounded and standard quantum visibility is recovered, modulo ordinary decoherence. When κ > 0 (''chaos-wins''), '''standard quantum mechanics still holds''' — nothing new happens to the world — but the observer's reference is no longer fully resolved, and the variance of the basis-tracking error grows as σ<sub>θ</sub><sup>2</sup>(''t'') = σ<sub>0</sub><sup>2</sup> e<sup>2κ''t''</sup>, so the ''raw, unconditioned'' records lose contrast. '''Measured visibility and fringe phase'''. For an arbitrary logged tracking-error distribution, the exact reference factor is the circular phasor :''G''<sub>ref</sub>(''t'') = E[e<sup>−iδθ(t)</sup>]. Its magnitude predicts the visibility multiplier and its argument predicts the fringe displacement. Only when the centered Gaussian or wrapped-Gaussian gate passes does this reduce to :|''G''<sub>ref</sub>(''t'')| = exp(−½ σ<sub>θ</sub><sup>2</sup>(''t'')), and, over the registered pre-wrapping range where σ<sub>θ</sub><sup>2</sup>(''t'') = σ<sub>0</sub><sup>2</sup>e<sup>2κ''t''</sup>, to the double-exponential submodel ''V''(''t'') = exp(−½σ<sub>0</sub><sup>2</sup>e<sup>2κ''t''</sup>). Variance alone does not determine visibility for a general residual distribution. '''Reference and baseline visibility'''. When the reference error is separable from the baseline coherence channel, the observed visibility factorises as ''V''<sub>obs</sub> = ''V''<sub>std</sub>|''G''<sub>ref</sub>|. If reference error correlates with baseline coherence, detector acceptance, or geometry, this product is not licensed and the registered joint per-shot model must be used. The reference contribution is recoverable when the realised reference is supplied and may otherwise be misassigned to ordinary decoherence. '''Breakdown time ''t''<sub>break</sub>'''. For a chosen visibility threshold ''V''*, :''t''<sub>break</sub> = (1 / 2κ) · ln(−2 ln ''V''* / σ<sub>0</sub><sup>2</sup>), κ > 0. ''t''<sub>break</sub> is the operational layer's primary observable. The benchmark uses a one-effective-mode reference source, for which ''h''<sub>θ</sub> = ''h''<sub>KS</sub>. Beyond that reference model, identifying a scalar tracking rate with the full ''h''<sub>KS</sub> requires a separate projection result or coordinate-level calibration (see [[#Open review targets|Open review targets]]). == The operational benchmark and the Penrose test == The experimental layer has two roles, and keeping them apart is essential: an operational ''benchmark'' that calibrates the apparatus, and a ''discrimination'' arm that tests gravitational collapse. Neither tests IOF against quantum mechanics. '''The benchmark (calibration arm).''' First calibrate the complete estimator/controller chain and its useful timely capacity in a reference-only arm, then freeze that calibration before quantum outcomes. Vary ''C''<sub>eff</sub> through a preregistered delivery schedule at clamped temperature, readout signal-to-noise, latency, actuator behaviour, and mass geometry. The prediction is that the raw-record breakdown time moves with κ = ''h''<sub>θ</sub> − ''C''<sub>eff</sub> ln 2. The distribution-free prediction is the trajectory-conditioned complex phasor; the double-exponential curve is used only after its Gaussian and dynamic-range gates pass. Confirmation benchmarks the instrument within standard quantum mechanics; failure indicts the apparatus model or calibration before it indicts the framework. '''The recoverability classifier.''' The decisive operational quantity is the recovery statistic ''R''<sub>rec</sub>: condition the raw records on a passive, full-resolution shadow log of the realised reference and ask whether the lost contrast returns. ''Recoverable'' (''R''<sub>rec</sub> → 1) is reference-frame physics — the framework's own expected case, in the lineage of quantum reference frames (Bartlett, Rudolph & Spekkens 2007). ''Unrecoverable'' loss is decoherence-type or collapse-type. The classifier is what separates the framework's subject from everything that is not its subject. '''The discrimination arm — a test of Penrose, not of IOF.''' With tracking held at maximal capacity and the engineered channel quiet, sweep mass geometry and look for a κ-independent, ''unrecoverable'' visibility floor — the signature of gravitational [[w:Penrose interpretation|objective reduction]] (OR), whose timescale ''τ''<sub>OR</sub> ≈ ℏ/''E''<sub>G</sub> is fixed by the gravitational self-energy of the superposition. The framework's contribution here is methodological: the calibrated reference channel and the ''R''<sub>rec</sub> classifier measure and subtract everything the observer's own finitude contributes, so that a null becomes a genuine bound on objective reduction and a surviving floor is certified as nature's rather than the apparatus's. '''The experiment tests Penrose's proposal, not IOF against quantum mechanics''': if an unrecoverable floor is found, quantum mechanics itself needs repair and Penrose is vindicated; if none is found, his proposal is constrained — and IOF remains exactly what it was, a way of understanding why quantum mechanics works. Neither outcome discriminates IOF from quantum mechanics. This discipline has a sharp boundary, worth stating: calibration can move only the probability of a ''correct verdict given the data''; it cannot move the probability that objective reduction is true. The instrument decides; it does not vote. The architecture is also not specific to Penrose. The same calibrate–subtract–classify procedure reads against the whole dynamical-collapse family — spontaneous-localisation (GRW/CSL) models and Diósi–Penrose gravitational collapse alike — distinguished by the variable the surviving floor scales with (mass and geometry for OR, nucleon-number amplification for GRW/CSL). Penrose is the flagship target because its schedule lands in an experimentally accessible mesoscopic window and carries a live debate, not because the method is bespoke to it. The [https://www.qgemproject.com/ QGEM] pathfinder is one candidate testbed; superconducting-qubit readout chains and precision-interferometer phase-locking loops are others. '''The Fisher-homogeneity module.''' A separate module tests the Born-derivation bridge by measuring whether the empirical Fisher information ''I''(θ) is approximately constant across the calibrated basis range, as the scalar-threshold-homogeneity premise requires. Because a flat ''I''(θ) is ''also'' what standard quantum mechanics predicts for an ideal binary readout, a homogeneous result confirms a shared prediction and lends no positive weight to the bridge; the module is a falsification-only check on a foundations premise, logically independent of the κ-benchmark. == Relation to quantum foundations == * '''The measurement problem'''. IOF introduces no world-side collapse. The host state continues according to the host dynamics, while "collapse" names only the bounded observer's update from unresolved alternatives to a definite record. In Everett all decohered outcomes occur and uncertainty is self-locating; in a scoped single-history host one outcome occurs without an IOF-added stochastic selector. In both cases the observer calls the answer random because the dependencies that determine its record are outside its finite access. Developed at length in ''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Where_Did_the_Measurement_Basis_Come_From.pdf Where Did the Measurement Basis Come From?]'' * '''Indexed objectivity'''. The definiteness an observer meets is objective ''indexed to its configuration'' — irreducible at that access, found the same way by every inspector there. Penrose's proposal is precisely that the index can be dropped: that definiteness is absolute, gravitationally enforced, with no log anywhere able to restore the superposition. ''R''<sub>rec</sub> is that question made operational — ''does the index drop?'' * '''ψ-ontic, collapse-epistemic'''. Within the empirical model the wavefunction is ontic and never collapses, so no-go results in the style of Pusey–Barrett–Rudolph — which constrain ψ-''epistemic'' models — do not bear against the framework; they support the wavefunction realism IOF requires. What is epistemic in IOF is ''collapse'': the record-relative update of a finite observer. * '''Relational Quantum Mechanics''' (Rovelli) takes outcomes to be relative to an observer–system; the framework offers one candidate physical mechanism — finite ''C''<sub>eff</sub> against the task-relevant source rate ''h''<sub>θ</sub> — for what makes one observer's frame physically inequivalent to another's. * '''Decoherence theory''' is not opposed. The framework brought one further thing inside the physics that decoherence leaves outside: the causal history of the measurement ''setting''. In the capacity-wins regime standard decoherence theory is recovered. * '''Measurement independence'''. Extended to Bell-type set-ups, IOF does not assume measurement independence: the setting and the system share a common past, so they need not be statistically independent. This places the framework in the superdeterministic family in the technical sense only — non-conspiratorial, with no fine-tuned ledger and no signalling, in the spirit of Palmer (2024). The shared ancestry is real but structurally inaccessible to the embedded observer; the framework names this ''epistemically bounded ancestral correlation''. IOF does not derive the Bell correlations from this alone — the Born weights and joint correlations are supplied by the hosted no-collapse embedding and recovered in the capacity-wins limit. A full consistency treatment, including a no-signalling lemma, remains an [[#Open review targets|open review target]]. * '''Information geometry'''. The conditional Born reconstruction runs from finite-record constraints through a Fisher capacity bridge, Cencov's uniqueness theorem, and square-root record coordinates to ''p''(θ) = cos²(θ/2), with hierarchical binary discrimination extending the weights to one calibrated finite-outcome context. A companion no-go theorem shows this route does ''not'' generate quantum phase, interference between non-commuting contexts, or cross-context composition. Those structures remain host-side, and their unique gluing to the record weights remains open. * '''Penrose Objective Reduction''' is treated as the live ''discrimination target'' of the experiment, not as a rival to be ruled out by the framework and not as a co-contributing IOF mechanism. The earlier "additive combined-rate" reading, and a speculative ''Bridge Ansatz'' identifying ''E''<sub>G</sub> with κ, have both been retired: the ansatz met its own failure criterion and survives only as explicitly speculative cosmogony in ''The Creation of Duality''. What remains is the clean division of variables — mass and geometry set ''τ''<sub>OR</sub>; capacity and instability set the benchmark — and the recoverability classifier that keeps them apart. == The measurement problem: where the Heisenberg cut sits == The framework gives an operational reading of the Heisenberg cut — the boundary between the quantum description used for the system and the classical description used for the apparatus and record. Standard interpretations place it variously: von Neumann showed it can be slid without changing predictions and treated its location as conventional; decoherence ties it to the rate of environmental coupling; objective-collapse proposals fix it universally at a mass scale. IOF places the operational cut where the observer-apparatus's ''useful'' basis-tracking rate runs out relative to the task-relevant source dynamics — at ''h''<sub>θ</sub> = ''C''<sub>eff</sub> ln 2. This production rate is source-side; it is not the entropy of the observer. In the BLQC one-effective-mode source, ''h''<sub>θ</sub> = ''h''<sub>KS</sub>, so the laboratory quantity is how that source production appears in the designated tracking task. The resulting κ<sub>θ</sub> quantifies the operational basis-tracking component of self-ignorance, not the root non-dual limitation itself. This is not an objective collapse boundary; it is a design-dependent threshold the experimenter can move. That the cut ''moves'' is what the benchmark measures — improving the controller raises ''C''<sub>eff</sub> and shifts the cut toward more chaotic basis-producing dynamics. This motion is expected control physics, not a departure from quantum mechanics: it is the operational signature of finite self-tracking, calibrated, and it is what the κ-benchmark reads off. The measurement problem took its sharpest form because the cut was treated as floating; the framework's narrower, testable claim is that for a given finite apparatus the cut is not floating but located, by the basis-tracking budget that apparatus devotes to its reference. == Philosophical interpretation == ''This section describes interpretive extensions beyond the empirical core. Nothing in it is load-bearing for the operational benchmark or the Penrose test. Everett is the preferred no-collapse host developed in the corpus, while pilot-wave and single-history hosts remain scoped alternatives. The operational machinery and its exposure to experiment do not depend on making Everett exclusive.'' The cleanest entry point to the interpretive position is ''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Where_Did_the_Measurement_Basis_Come_From.pdf Where Did the Measurement Basis Come From?]'' (Dekker, 2026). It states the central move — the measurement basis as a physical variable with causal ancestry inside the same history as the system — addresses the standard objections, and names the position ''epistemically bounded ancestral correlation''. A second interpretive piece, ''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Response_to_Rovelli_on_the_Hard_Problem.pdf The Hard Problem Dissolved — But Into What?]'' (Dekker, 2026), engages Carlo Rovelli's Noema essay, marks the ground it shares with the framework, and identifies where the framework presses beyond Rovelli's deflationary physicalism toward a non-dual reading. The interpretive layer is developed in dialogue with Rovelli's relational quantum mechanics and the Advaita Vedānta tradition (Śaṅkara, Ramaṇa Maharṣi). The production rate in κ is the source-side rate relevant to the designated tracking task; it is not the entropy of the observer. The corresponding operational deficit quantifies one basis-tracking component of self-ignorance. The non-dual claim is deeper and is not numerically identified with κ: from the inside, a finite observer's own limitation makes a world of apparently distinct observers and records appear. The framework presents this as structural interpretation, not as evidence for Advaita or as a claim an interferometry experiment could confirm. A separate IOF-internal derivation, ''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/The_Born_Rule_from_Finite_Observation.pdf The Born Rule from Finite Observation]'', obtains ''p''(θ) = cos²(θ/2) from finite-record geometry, with its scope fixed by the no-go companion ''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Why_Fisher_Geometry_Gives_Binary_Born_but_Not_Quantum_Phase.pdf Why Fisher Geometry Gives Binary Born but Not Quantum Phase]''. Its metaphysical companion, ''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Structural_Resonance.pdf Structural Resonance]'', documents how a structural reading of the ''Kaṭha Upaniṣad'' served as a disciplined search heuristic for the derivation, without claiming that Vedānta proves the Born rule. A further speculative extension, ''The Creation of Duality'', asks whether space, time, objecthood, and gravity-like structure can themselves be read as features of a consistent finite-observer world-model. The document is under revision and its PDF is temporarily withdrawn. Readers who prefer to ignore the interpretive readings can evaluate the framework's empirical content from the [[#Technical proposal|Technical proposal]] and [[#The operational benchmark and the Penrose test|operational]] sections alone. == What a clean result would, and would not, establish == * '''A clean benchmark''' (κ-scaling, agreement with the trajectory-conditioned phasor null, and recoverable loss with ''R''<sub>rec</sub> → 1) validates the calibrated reference-channel model in the tested regime. It does '''not''' establish IOF over quantum mechanics, because the benchmark lies within quantum mechanics. * '''The Penrose discrimination''' settles a question about gravity, not about IOF. An unrecoverable mass-geometry floor would vindicate Penrose and show quantum mechanics incomplete; its absence would constrain objective reduction at the tested scales. IOF supplies the calibrated subtrahend that makes either verdict trustworthy. * '''The interpretation''' gains nothing a discriminating experiment could give it, and loses nothing a null could take away. It competes — by coherence and economy — with the other no-collapse readings; a Penrose null leaves it standing among them, neither crowned nor refuted. * '''The avidyā mapping''' gains a concrete physical anchor for σ<sub>θ</sub><sup>2</sup>(''t'') as a limit on self-observation, but the framework's claim there is structural, not metaphysical, and no interferometry result adjudicates the philosophical positions the mapping connects. == Open review targets == These are the points on which the proposal should be attacked. The list is split into ''core'' targets, load-bearing for the operational claim, and ''further technical caveats''. === Core review targets === # '''Operationalising the recoverability classifier'''. Recoverability is the framework's ''position'', not an objection to it: the expected case is that the engineered loss is reference physics and returns under conditioning on a passive shadow log. The load-bearing question is whether ''R''<sub>rec</sub> can be made a clean classifier in practice — whether the logging-fidelity budget can be quantified and frozen, and the recovered-versus-residual contrast separated, well enough to certify any surviving floor as not-the-observer's. If it cannot, the Penrose discrimination loses its subtrahend. # '''Decoherence confound'''. Distinguishing ''V''<sub>IOF</sub> from ''V''<sub>std</sub> in practice is the central experimental challenge of the benchmark. A sufficiently flexible Lindblad / phase-noise model may absorb the predicted curve under suitable parameters; the benchmark gains independent force only when κ predicts visibility timing after thermal, readout, latency, pulse, actuator, and offline-recovery controls have been given every chance to win. # '''Useful-capacity calibration'''. The framework relies on independent calibration of ''C''<sub>eff</sub> as ''useful'' tracking capacity, not raw input power or the Landauer ceiling. Establishing that calibration empirically — via the Fisher-homogeneity module or an equivalent operational mapping — is the load-bearing engineering claim. # '''Instability measure'''. The benchmark must independently certify the task-relevant rate ''h''<sub>θ</sub>. Identifying it with ''h''<sub>KS</sub> is licensed only in the one-effective-mode source or by an explicit projection result or coordinate-level calibration. The expanding-dynamics gate must also distinguish deterministic expansion from stochastic diffusion before the exponential tracking submodel is read. # '''Residual distribution and channel dependence'''. Variance does not determine visibility for an arbitrary phase-error distribution; the exact logged-reference factor is the complex circular phasor. The double-exponential form is registered only when the centered Gaussian or wrapped-Gaussian gate passes and only over the pre-wrapping range. If reference error and baseline coherence are correlated, the joint per-shot model replaces a product of averaged visibility factors. === Further technical caveats === # '''Nonlinear control bridge'''. Applying the one-mode multiplicative data-rate law to a nonlinear reference coordinate remains an empirical bridge whose finite-range scaling and delivery-schedule dependence must be calibrated directly. # '''Prior-art and reparameterisation risk'''. The framework must show its predicted curve is not ordinary reference noise, phase jitter, or decoherence in new notation — the purpose of the adversarial-mimic analysis. # '''Bell / locality consistency'''. The framework implies a non-conspiratorial violation of statistical measurement-independence (following Palmer 2024). A full consistency proof, including a no-signalling lemma for the hosted no-collapse embedding, has not been published. # '''Scope of the Born-rule derivation'''. The companion note conditionally obtains the binary weight ''p''(θ) = cos²(θ/2) under two named premises and extends the weights through hierarchical binary discrimination to one calibrated finite-outcome context. Complex Hilbert space, tensor-product composition, unitary dynamics, quantum phase, and cross-context consistency are ''not'' derived; they remain host-side, and their unique gluing to the record weights remains open. # '''Peer-review status and replication'''. The framework has not undergone peer review and the experiments have not been performed. Its case must be evaluated on the documents and on the conduct of the prospective experiment, not on any external imprimatur. == Invitation for review == This page is offered as a venue for substantive critique. The author is particularly interested in: * '''From physicists in quantum control or precision interferometry''': can the recoverability classifier be implemented cleanly enough on real hardware to certify a residual floor as not-the-observer's, and what existing apparatus is best positioned to host the calibrated benchmark and the mass-geometry sweep? * '''From decoherence theorists''': under what conditions does the double-exponential law overlap with compound-channel decoherence models in ways that would make a recoverable κ-channel and an unrecoverable one hard to separate in practice? * '''From researchers in quantum foundations''': how should a non-conspiratorial, epistemically bounded violation of measurement-independence be evaluated against the superdeterminism / retrocausality / many-worlds landscape, and what would a satisfactory no-signalling consistency proof require? * '''From researchers in information geometry''': is the Fisher capacity bridge the right identification of useful tracking capacity, is scalar-threshold homogeneity the natural reading of the BLQC threshold in a calibrated basis, and is Cencov-based selection the correct uniqueness route? Critique of the no-go boundary — what genuinely cannot be reached from finite-record geometry — is equally welcome. * '''From philosophers of mind''': the Advaita / RQM interpretive layer is offered conditionally on the empirical core and as an interpretation among peers. Is the conditional structure presented clearly enough, or does it still amount to overreach? Comments, references to prior or parallel work, and pointers to confounds or alternative explanations are all welcome. Substantive critique on the [[Talk:The Ignorant Observer Framework|talk page]] will be acknowledged in subsequent revisions. == Documents == The framework's documents are published at [https://ignorantobserver.xyz ignorantobserver.xyz], grouped by role. '''Foundational and bridges''' * '''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/The_Ignorant_Observer.pdf The Ignorant Observer]''' — the foundational paper. The philosophical motivation (avidyā as a physical limit) and the technical groundwork from which the project grew. * '''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Where_Did_the_Measurement_Basis_Come_From.pdf Where Did the Measurement Basis Come From?]''' — the conceptual bridge for physicists. States the claim the framework makes about the measurement basis, addresses the standard objections, and names the position ''epistemically bounded ancestral correlation''. * '''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Bandwidth-Limited_Quantum_Control.pdf Bandwidth-Limited Quantum Control]''' — the operational layer: a finite-rate phase-reference control law and its operational benchmark (calibration arm, capacity and instability sweeps, shadow-log recoverability classifier, registered chaotic-corner module). * '''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/A_Capacity-Calibrated_Protocol_for_Testing_Penrose_Objective_Reduction.pdf A Capacity-Calibrated Protocol for Testing Penrose Objective Reduction]''' — the prospective experiment: a mass-geometry sweep for an unrecoverable collapse floor, with the BLQC benchmark as its calibration prerequisite. Tests Penrose, not IOF. '''Foundational extensions''' * '''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/The_Born_Rule_from_Finite_Observation.pdf The Born Rule from Finite Observation]''' — derives the binary Born form ''p''(θ) = cos²(θ/2) from finite-record geometry, conditional on two named, empirically exposed assumptions, and extends the weights to one calibrated finite-outcome context. Does not derive complex Hilbert space, tensor products, unitary dynamics, phase, or cross-context composition. * '''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Why_Fisher_Geometry_Gives_Binary_Born_but_Not_Quantum_Phase.pdf Why Fisher Geometry Gives Binary Born but Not Quantum Phase]''' — the no-go companion marking exactly where the finite-record route stops, so the boundary is a result rather than a gap. * '''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Structural_Resonance.pdf Structural Resonance]''' — a metaphysical companion explaining how a structural reading of the ''Kaṭha Upaniṣad'' served as a search heuristic for the derivation. Does not claim Vedānta proves the Born rule. '''Supplements''' * '''Forensic Signatures''' — under reconstruction; the PDF and archival deposit are temporarily withdrawn because the null calibration did not reproduce the complete selection-and-fitting pipeline. Earlier numerical findings are not treated as evidence for BLQC or IOF. * '''The Creation of Duality''' — speculative extension on appearance, gravity, and information from self-ignorance; under revision, with its PDF temporarily withdrawn. * '''The Capacity–Backaction Frontier''' — application to cryogenic quantum error correction; under revision, with its PDF temporarily withdrawn. * '''[https://ignorantobserver.xyz/documents/Biological_Observers.pdf Biological Observers]''' — exploratory supplement on biological timescales. The foundational paper is archived on the Open Science Framework at [https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FCDSN doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FCDSN]; the website lists the separate DOI-linked deposits for the companion papers. == References == * Bartlett, S. D., Rudolph, T., & Spekkens, R. W. (2007). Reference frames, superselection rules, and quantum information. ''Reviews of Modern Physics'', 79(2), 555–609. * Brukner, Č., & Zeilinger, A. (1999). Operationally invariant information in quantum measurements. ''Physical Review Letters'', 83(17), 3354–3357. * Huang, H.-Y., Kueng, R., & Preskill, J. (2020). Predicting many properties of a quantum system from very few measurements. ''Nature Physics'', 16, 1050–1057. * Nair, G. N., & Evans, R. J. (2004). Stabilizability of stochastic linear systems with finite feedback data rates. ''SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization'', 43(2), 413–436. * Palmer, T. (2024). Superdeterminism without conspiracy. ''Universe'', 10(1), 47. * Penrose, R. (1996). On gravity's role in quantum state reduction. ''General Relativity and Gravitation'', 28(5), 581–600. * Pusey, M. F., Barrett, J., & Rudolph, T. (2012). On the reality of the quantum state. ''Nature Physics'', 8(6), 475–478. * Rovelli, C. (1996). Relational quantum mechanics. ''International Journal of Theoretical Physics'', 35(8), 1637–1678. * Tatikonda, S., & Mitter, S. (2004). Control under communication constraints. ''IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control'', 49(7), 1056–1068. * Weihs, G., Jennewein, T., Simon, C., Weinfurter, H., & Zeilinger, A. (1998). Violation of Bell's inequality under strict Einstein locality conditions. ''Physical Review Letters'', 81(23), 5039–5043. * Wootters, W. K. (1981). Statistical distance and Hilbert space. ''Physical Review D'', 23(2), 357–362. == See also == * [[w:Quantum decoherence|Decoherence]] (Wikipedia) * [[w:Relational quantum mechanics|Relational quantum mechanics]] (Wikipedia) * [[w:Penrose interpretation|Penrose interpretation]] (Wikipedia) * [[w:Data-rate theorem|Data-rate theorem]] (Wikipedia) [[Category:Research projects]] [[Category:Quantum mechanics]] [[Category:Philosophy of science]] ftijnp2mnd05vr8z15gi2vihh9ujj5m Linked-Open-Exhibition-Exercise 0 329922 2818319 2818245 2026-07-14T15:11:05Z Mrchristian 281704 /* A. Creating the exhibition entry in Wikidata. */ 2818319 wikitext text/x-wiki Linked Open Exhibitions (Prototype): https://nfdi4culture.github.io/linked-open-exhibition/ Back to main course: [[BIM-126-02-Data-Science-Linked-Open-Exhibition]] DE version - see language switcher - top right. Tasks: # Complete the Wikidata entry for a Sprengel Museum exhibition # Completion of the GitHub task of forking repository and publishing Wikidata entry https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype # Adding Data Model mapping to standards to forked repository # Adding SPARQL Query network diagram to forked repository # Adding ORCID ID to forked repository # AI LLMs: ## Agentic coding: VSCode Copilot exercise ## Document AI LLM use with list of use, pro and cons, and attribution # Completion of project section of Linked Open Exhibitions ## The three sections: ### Wikidata Exhibition entries ### DNB (Library metadata) entries sorting ### Exhibition catalogue scan - Text and Data Mining --- == 1: Complete the Wikidata entry for a Sprengel Museum exhibition == [[File:Timeline 2026 06 02.jpg|alt=Timeline|left|thumb]] [[File:Network 2026 06 02.jpg|alt=Graph|left|thumb]]What is covered in this exercies: * Record minimal information for an exhibition in Wikidata as Linked Open Data: Title, museum, date, etc. e.g., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138547468 – See: Table 1: ''Minimal data entries for an exhibition'' * View the results collected the exhibition record in Wikidata Query Service results link that shows all of your entries: As a timeline https://w.wiki/J8NJ and as a graph https://w.wiki/J8aS * Review exhibition entries. Cover topics raised by making a LOD entry: Wikidata basics, Wikidata good practice, consulting schemas, importance of review and using GitHub Issues, comparing available data – before and after. Step-by-step guide: ==== A. Creating the exhibition entry in Wikidata. ==== # Login to Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/ # Have the source information for an exhibition at hand to make a data entry, here you can find a list of exhibitions. Students we assigned exibitions and you can find your allocation [https://tib.cloud/s/fncf8W6pXs8qgiq here] (password needed - if you need an allocation or have a question contact: Simon Worthington simon.worthington@tib.eu), e.g., #* '''NOTE:''' Sprengel Museum website is offline - if you need more info about your exhibition use the DNB site to search your exhibition name, use keywords like Sprengel Museum Ausellung #** https://portal.dnb.de/opac/showFullRecord?currentResultId=sprengel+and+museum+and+ausstellung%26any&currentPosition=1 #** https://www.sprengel-museum.de/ausstellungen/archiv #** https://www.sprengel-museum.de/besuch?view=article&id=65:publikationen&catid=2:uncategorised # Check there is no existing entry for the exhibition is on Wikidata. Use the search function. # Create an item or edit an existing item. #* Note: Check which language you are using. We will be adding Deutsch and English entries (starting with Deutsch). # Create the following data entries in Wikidata, see below: Table 1: ''Minimal data entries for an exhibition.'' # Review exhibition Wikidata entries. Review is carried out by using three questions. Add comments if needed, corrections can be made. Results and notes can be added to the Discussion Page of the entry, e.g., #* All entries present [ ] #* All entries correct [ ] #* Entries are in Deutsch and English – within reason [ ] # References can be added: Source URLs, date accessed ===== ''Table'' ''1: Minimal data entries for an exhibition (Add all 9 items)'' ===== {| class="wikitable" | colspan="7" |'''Fields used to make an exhibition entry. See example: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138547468''' |- |A |Label | colspan="5" |Note: Keep short. Use title from exhibition |- |B |Description | colspan="5" |Note: Use to differentiate from other entries. Follow this example: Gabriela Jolowicz Holzschnitte Ausstellung im Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2026 |- | |'''Property (P) and Item (Q)''' |'''URI''' |'''DE''' |'''EN''' |'''Add''' |'''Note''' |- |1 |P31 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31 |ist ein(e) |instance of |Q464980 |Add item |- |2 |Q464980 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464980 |Ausstellung |Exhibition | |(Used above) |- |3 |P1476 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1476 |Titel |Title |Title |Plain text |- |4 |P276 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P276 |Ort |Location |Sprengel Museum Hannover Q510144 |Add item |- |5 |P580 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P580 |Startzeitpunkt |Start time |Date |YYYY-MM-DD |- |6 |P582 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P582 |Endzeitpunkt |End time |Date |YYYY-MM-DD |- |7 |P1640 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1640 |Kurator |Curator |Person |Add item (if don't exists will need to create/can omit at present) |- |8 |P710 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P710 |Teilnehmer |Participant |Person (the artist) |Add item (if don't exists will need to create/can omit at present) |- |9 |P856 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P856 |offizielle Website |Official website |URL |URL |} Task #1 complete! --- == 2. Completion of the GitHub task of forking repository and publishing Wikidata entry == [[File:Wikidata 2026 06 02.jpg|left|thumb]] Completion of the GitHub task of forking repository and publishing Wikidata entry https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype or https://github.com/NFDI4Culture/prototype-linkedOE Tools: Quarto, GitHub, VS Code, Jupyter Notebooks, Codespace if needed, copilot: Agentic Coding) '''Requirements''' # A laptop or computer where you can install VScode # You will need 2FA on your mobile (optional) # Create a GitHub account # Install VScode # Connect Github account to VScode # Create GitHub reposoitory '''Fork the following repository:''' https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype Create a page for the quarto project that retrieves the data used for thie Wikidata item and renders it as professional webpage ''<Insert your exhibition here – or use this one>''  https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138547468 The approach should create a SPARQL query for the data and then render this as HTML using a Jupyter Notebook. All entries: https://tib.cloud/s/fncf8W6pXs8qgiq (needs password) ===== Tasks ===== * Change exhibition - manual * Run Jupyter Notebook * Run and preview Quarto * Publish to your GitHub Pages ===== Step-by-step ===== ====== Part one: Working environment ====== '''''NOTE: If you are having problems running locally then use the Codespace online option.''''' # Create GitHub account - https://github.com/ # Have 2FA available - usually on mobile (Google authenticator) (optional) # Install VSCode - https://code.visualstudio.com/download # Install GitHub Desktop - https://desktop.github.com/download/ # Add Github account when prompted, use 2FA ====== Step two: The prototype ====== # Fork the repository: https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype # If working locally continue - if using Codespace - launch Codespace (see below and then continue) # Test Quarto in the Terminal: ## <code>quarto check</code> ## <code>quarto render</code> ## <code>quarto preview</code> (control C - to stop) # If not working run Quarto from Agent # Change Wikidata exhibition in Notebook # Run notebook # Run <code>quarto render</code> <code>quarto preview</code> # Save all (or use auto save) # Git: Message, Commit and Push # On GitHub.com your repository ## Turn on Pages: GitHub Actions ## Code: About cog - Click use my GitHub Pages ## Actions tab: Publish Quarto Project # ENDE - Rinse repeat :-) ===== Codespace option: ===== Videolink: https://tib.cloud/s/LDtkN6QsdFkGGR6 (10 Minuten Zeit) Codespace is an online Virtual Machine which can be launched from GitHub. The repository includes a Dev Container configuration so you can work entirely in the browser without installing anything locally. # On the repository page on GitHub, click Code → Codespaces → Create codespace on main. # Wait for the container to build — Python packages from <code>requirements.txt</code> are installed automatically - about 5 minu3. Adding Data Model mapping to standards to forked repositorytes. # Once everything is installed the Codespace can be used anytime. It automatically shutsdown when left alone and can be restarted any time. # Work done in Codespace must be pushed back to the repository. # If Codespace is not used for 28 days the Codespace is deleted. --- == 3. Adding Data Model mapping to standards to forked repository == Four data models have been made for the project. The data models have been mapped to sector data schemas: Wikidata; CIDOC CRM; and Wikibase4Research. See: https://nfdi4culture.github.io/linked-open-exhibition/ Choose data models that relate to your Wikidata entry. Data models are: * Artist Data Model * Exhibition Data Model * DNB Catalogue Data Model * Item in Exhibition Data Model Copy the .qmd files used over to your repository and insert them in your Quarto YAML file _quarto.yml like so: website:   <code>title: "BIM Prototype 02"</code> <code>  navbar:</code> <code>    left:</code> <code>          - href: artist-datamodel.qmd</code> <code>            text: Artist Data Model</code> <code>          - href: exhibition-datamodel.qmd</code> <code>            text: Exhibition Data Model</code> <code>          - href: dnb-catalogue-datamodel.qmd</code> <code>            text: DNB Catalogue Data Model</code> <code>          - href: item-in-exhibition-datamodel.qmd</code> <code>            text: Item in Exhibition Data Model</code> == 4. Adding SPARQL Query network diagram to forked repository == '''Visualizing the Wikidata Item as a Graph''' https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype The following cell renders a graph visualization of the relationships for the selected Wikidata item. This helps to see how the item is connected to other entities via its properties. In your Quarto project the Jupyter Lab Notebook will render the graph automatically<blockquote>wikidata-item.ipynb</blockquote> # In cell 2 input your Wikidata QID, e.g., item_id = "Q138572982" # Click Run All at the top of the Jupyter Lab Notebook. The graph will then render. # Once rendered you can preview your Quarto publication. Then render Quarto and push to GitHub. [[File:Graph of exhibition 2026 06 02.png|alt=Graph of exhibition 2026 06 02|frame|center]] == 5. Adding ORCID ID to forked repository == '''ORCID''' (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a free, unique, persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers. It’s a 16-digit identifier in the format: <code>XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX</code> See full details here: https://nfdi4culture.github.io/linked-open-exhibition/ ==== How to Get an ORCID ==== # '''Visit''': orcid.org # '''Click''': “Sign in” → “Register for an ORCID iD” # '''Provide''': #* Given name and family name #* Email address #* Password #* Affiliation (optional but recommended) # '''Verify''': Confirm your email address # '''Complete''': Your 16-digit ORCID will be generated immediately ==== Add to Quarto ==== _quarto.yml <code>project''':'''</code> <code>type''':''' website</code> <code>title''':''' "My Project"</code> <code>metadata''':'''</code> <code>author''':'''</code> <code>'''-''' name''':''' Jane Researcher</code> <code>- orcid''':''' 0000-0002-1234-5678</code> ==== Add to CFF Citation File Format ==== This will make your repository citable on GitHub. Ask Copilot to generate a CFF file in the top level of your repository and add your ORCID. == 6. AI LLM: Agentic assistent/coding == For the project Copilot is used in VSCode for limited agentic coding. A GitHub account is needed to use Copilot and the user must agree to TnCs. A free account will be used. Once logged into VSCode, see the menu item: View > Chat to access the AI on the right. Use Agent mode. ==== Exercises: ==== # Ask the agent to create a CFF file and add you ORCID ID. Promt: create a CFF file and add my ORCID ID <code>XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX</code> # Ask the agent to create a .QMD file describing your exhibition, give it Wikidata QID, and ask it to add the page to your Quarto project. # Ask the agent to render and push your Auarto project to Git. ==== Request an account with KISSKI this can be used later for code and questions. ==== „KI-Servicezentrum für Sensible und Kritische Infrastrukturen“ (KISSKI) can be used for unmetered ChatGPT5 <nowiki>https://kisski.gwdg.de/leistungen/2-02-llm-service/</nowiki> | <nowiki>https://chat-ai.academiccloud.de/chat</nowiki> lu8k8oxbth1ojyl2wco7hvd7cozwgwi 2818341 2818319 2026-07-15T08:54:41Z Mrchristian 281704 /* 1: Complete the Wikidata entry for a Sprengel Museum exhibition */ 2818341 wikitext text/x-wiki Linked Open Exhibitions (Prototype): https://nfdi4culture.github.io/linked-open-exhibition/ Back to main course: [[BIM-126-02-Data-Science-Linked-Open-Exhibition]] DE version - see language switcher - top right. Tasks: # Complete the Wikidata entry for a Sprengel Museum exhibition # Completion of the GitHub task of forking repository and publishing Wikidata entry https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype # Adding Data Model mapping to standards to forked repository # Adding SPARQL Query network diagram to forked repository # Adding ORCID ID to forked repository # AI LLMs: ## Agentic coding: VSCode Copilot exercise ## Document AI LLM use with list of use, pro and cons, and attribution # Completion of project section of Linked Open Exhibitions ## The three sections: ### Wikidata Exhibition entries ### DNB (Library metadata) entries sorting ### Exhibition catalogue scan - Text and Data Mining --- == 1: Complete the Wikidata entry for a Sprengel Museum exhibition == [[File:Timeline 2026 06 02.jpg|alt=Timeline|left|frame|Timeline: https://w.wiki/J8NJ]] [[File:Network 2026 06 02.jpg|alt=Graph|left|frame|Graph: https://w.wiki/J8aS]]This exercise covers: * How to record minimal information for an exhibition in Wikidata as Linked Open Data. Title, museum, date, etc. For example: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138547468 See Table 1 for minimal data entries for an exhibition. * View the results collected for the exhibition record: ** In the Query Service results link that shows all of your entries. * View the results of the exhibition record in the Wikidat Query Service results link, which shows all of your entries. * As a timeline: https://w.wiki/J8NJ, and * As a graph: https://w.wiki/J8aS. * Review exhibition entries. Cover topics raised by creating an LOD entry: -  Wikidata basics: # Wikidata good practice # Consulting schemas # Importance of review # Using GitHub Issues # Comparing available data – before and after Step-by-step guide: ==== A. Creating the exhibition entry in Wikidata. ==== # Login to Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/ # Have the source information for an exhibition at hand to make a data entry, here you can find a list of exhibitions. Students we assigned exibitions and you can find your allocation [https://tib.cloud/s/fncf8W6pXs8qgiq here] (password needed - if you need an allocation or have a question contact: Simon Worthington simon.worthington@tib.eu), e.g., #* '''NOTE:''' Sprengel Museum website is offline - if you need more info about your exhibition use the DNB site to search your exhibition name, use keywords like Sprengel Museum Ausellung #** https://portal.dnb.de/opac/showFullRecord?currentResultId=sprengel+and+museum+and+ausstellung%26any&currentPosition=1 #** https://www.sprengel-museum.de/ausstellungen/archiv #** https://www.sprengel-museum.de/besuch?view=article&id=65:publikationen&catid=2:uncategorised # Check there is no existing entry for the exhibition is on Wikidata. Use the search function. # Create an item or edit an existing item. #* Note: Check which language you are using. We will be adding Deutsch and English entries (starting with Deutsch). # Create the following data entries in Wikidata, see below: Table 1: ''Minimal data entries for an exhibition.'' # Review exhibition Wikidata entries. Review is carried out by using three questions. Add comments if needed, corrections can be made. Results and notes can be added to the Discussion Page of the entry, e.g., #* All entries present [ ] #* All entries correct [ ] #* Entries are in Deutsch and English – within reason [ ] # References can be added: Source URLs, date accessed ===== ''Table'' ''1: Minimal data entries for an exhibition (Add all 9 items)'' ===== {| class="wikitable" | colspan="7" |'''Fields used to make an exhibition entry. See example: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138547468''' |- |A |Label | colspan="5" |Note: Keep short. Use title from exhibition |- |B |Description | colspan="5" |Note: Use to differentiate from other entries. Follow this example: Gabriela Jolowicz Holzschnitte Ausstellung im Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2026 |- | |'''Property (P) and Item (Q)''' |'''URI''' |'''DE''' |'''EN''' |'''Add''' |'''Note''' |- |1 |P31 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31 |ist ein(e) |instance of |Q464980 |Add item |- |2 |Q464980 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464980 |Ausstellung |Exhibition | |(Used above) |- |3 |P1476 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1476 |Titel |Title |Title |Plain text |- |4 |P276 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P276 |Ort |Location |Sprengel Museum Hannover Q510144 |Add item |- |5 |P580 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P580 |Startzeitpunkt |Start time |Date |YYYY-MM-DD |- |6 |P582 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P582 |Endzeitpunkt |End time |Date |YYYY-MM-DD |- |7 |P1640 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1640 |Kurator |Curator |Person |Add item (if don't exists will need to create/can omit at present) |- |8 |P710 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P710 |Teilnehmer |Participant |Person (the artist) |Add item (if don't exists will need to create/can omit at present) |- |9 |P856 |https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P856 |offizielle Website |Official website |URL |URL |} Task #1 complete! --- == 2. Completion of the GitHub task of forking repository and publishing Wikidata entry == [[File:Wikidata 2026 06 02.jpg|left|thumb]] Completion of the GitHub task of forking repository and publishing Wikidata entry https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype or https://github.com/NFDI4Culture/prototype-linkedOE Tools: Quarto, GitHub, VS Code, Jupyter Notebooks, Codespace if needed, copilot: Agentic Coding) '''Requirements''' # A laptop or computer where you can install VScode # You will need 2FA on your mobile (optional) # Create a GitHub account # Install VScode # Connect Github account to VScode # Create GitHub reposoitory '''Fork the following repository:''' https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype Create a page for the quarto project that retrieves the data used for thie Wikidata item and renders it as professional webpage ''<Insert your exhibition here – or use this one>''  https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138547468 The approach should create a SPARQL query for the data and then render this as HTML using a Jupyter Notebook. All entries: https://tib.cloud/s/fncf8W6pXs8qgiq (needs password) ===== Tasks ===== * Change exhibition - manual * Run Jupyter Notebook * Run and preview Quarto * Publish to your GitHub Pages ===== Step-by-step ===== ====== Part one: Working environment ====== '''''NOTE: If you are having problems running locally then use the Codespace online option.''''' # Create GitHub account - https://github.com/ # Have 2FA available - usually on mobile (Google authenticator) (optional) # Install VSCode - https://code.visualstudio.com/download # Install GitHub Desktop - https://desktop.github.com/download/ # Add Github account when prompted, use 2FA ====== Step two: The prototype ====== # Fork the repository: https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype # If working locally continue - if using Codespace - launch Codespace (see below and then continue) # Test Quarto in the Terminal: ## <code>quarto check</code> ## <code>quarto render</code> ## <code>quarto preview</code> (control C - to stop) # If not working run Quarto from Agent # Change Wikidata exhibition in Notebook # Run notebook # Run <code>quarto render</code> <code>quarto preview</code> # Save all (or use auto save) # Git: Message, Commit and Push # On GitHub.com your repository ## Turn on Pages: GitHub Actions ## Code: About cog - Click use my GitHub Pages ## Actions tab: Publish Quarto Project # ENDE - Rinse repeat :-) ===== Codespace option: ===== Videolink: https://tib.cloud/s/LDtkN6QsdFkGGR6 (10 Minuten Zeit) Codespace is an online Virtual Machine which can be launched from GitHub. The repository includes a Dev Container configuration so you can work entirely in the browser without installing anything locally. # On the repository page on GitHub, click Code → Codespaces → Create codespace on main. # Wait for the container to build — Python packages from <code>requirements.txt</code> are installed automatically - about 5 minu3. Adding Data Model mapping to standards to forked repositorytes. # Once everything is installed the Codespace can be used anytime. It automatically shutsdown when left alone and can be restarted any time. # Work done in Codespace must be pushed back to the repository. # If Codespace is not used for 28 days the Codespace is deleted. --- == 3. Adding Data Model mapping to standards to forked repository == Four data models have been made for the project. The data models have been mapped to sector data schemas: Wikidata; CIDOC CRM; and Wikibase4Research. See: https://nfdi4culture.github.io/linked-open-exhibition/ Choose data models that relate to your Wikidata entry. Data models are: * Artist Data Model * Exhibition Data Model * DNB Catalogue Data Model * Item in Exhibition Data Model Copy the .qmd files used over to your repository and insert them in your Quarto YAML file _quarto.yml like so: website:   <code>title: "BIM Prototype 02"</code> <code>  navbar:</code> <code>    left:</code> <code>          - href: artist-datamodel.qmd</code> <code>            text: Artist Data Model</code> <code>          - href: exhibition-datamodel.qmd</code> <code>            text: Exhibition Data Model</code> <code>          - href: dnb-catalogue-datamodel.qmd</code> <code>            text: DNB Catalogue Data Model</code> <code>          - href: item-in-exhibition-datamodel.qmd</code> <code>            text: Item in Exhibition Data Model</code> == 4. Adding SPARQL Query network diagram to forked repository == '''Visualizing the Wikidata Item as a Graph''' https://github.com/mrchristian/prototype The following cell renders a graph visualization of the relationships for the selected Wikidata item. This helps to see how the item is connected to other entities via its properties. In your Quarto project the Jupyter Lab Notebook will render the graph automatically<blockquote>wikidata-item.ipynb</blockquote> # In cell 2 input your Wikidata QID, e.g., item_id = "Q138572982" # Click Run All at the top of the Jupyter Lab Notebook. The graph will then render. # Once rendered you can preview your Quarto publication. Then render Quarto and push to GitHub. [[File:Graph of exhibition 2026 06 02.png|alt=Graph of exhibition 2026 06 02|frame|center]] == 5. Adding ORCID ID to forked repository == '''ORCID''' (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a free, unique, persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers. It’s a 16-digit identifier in the format: <code>XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX</code> See full details here: https://nfdi4culture.github.io/linked-open-exhibition/ ==== How to Get an ORCID ==== # '''Visit''': orcid.org # '''Click''': “Sign in” → “Register for an ORCID iD” # '''Provide''': #* Given name and family name #* Email address #* Password #* Affiliation (optional but recommended) # '''Verify''': Confirm your email address # '''Complete''': Your 16-digit ORCID will be generated immediately ==== Add to Quarto ==== _quarto.yml <code>project''':'''</code> <code>type''':''' website</code> <code>title''':''' "My Project"</code> <code>metadata''':'''</code> <code>author''':'''</code> <code>'''-''' name''':''' Jane Researcher</code> <code>- orcid''':''' 0000-0002-1234-5678</code> ==== Add to CFF Citation File Format ==== This will make your repository citable on GitHub. Ask Copilot to generate a CFF file in the top level of your repository and add your ORCID. == 6. 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