Polytope Bubble Images

Copyright by John M. Sullivan

http://torus.math.uiuc.edu/jms/
jms@uiuc.edu

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For three of the six regular polytopes in four dimensional space, the stereographic projection has the geometry of a bubble cluster. Here we see two projected images of the dodecaplex or 120-cell, and one of the hypercube or 8-cell. These images are from my article "Generating and Rendering Four-Dimensional Polytopes", [S1].

I have also written a java applet to illustrate the same kind of stereographic projection down one dimension, where regular polyhdra project to planar bubble clusters.