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Space-filling zonotopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

G. C. Shephard
G. C. Shephard
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England.
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By a zonotope we mean any set in Euclidean n-dimensional space Rn which can be written as a Minkowski (vector) sum of a finite number of line segments. A zonotope is a convex centrally-symmetric polytope, and all its faces are zonotopes. Familiar examples of three-dimensional zonotopes include the cube, rhombic dodecahedron, elongated dodecahedron (Figure 1) and truncated octahedron. Photographs of models of more complicated examples appear in [1, Plate II].

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , December 1974 , pp. 261 - 269
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Copyright © University College London 1974

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