Schlegel diagram

A Schlegel diagram of a 120-cell

Meaning

Noun

  • A projection of a polytope from n-dimensional space to n-1 dimensions through a point beyond one of its faces; especially such a projection (itself represented in 2 dimensions) of a 3- or 4-dimensional polytope.

Origin

  • From Schlegel + diagram, after German mathematician Victor Schlegel, who introduced the diagram in 1886.

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