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Wythoff construction is a method for constructing a
uniform polyhedron or plane tiling. The two general forms of the hypercube honeycombs are the
regular form with identical hypercubic facets and one
semiregular, with alternating hypercube facets, like a
checkerboard. A third form is generated by an
expansion operation applied to the regular form, creating facets in place of all lower-dimensional elements. For example, an
expanded cubic honeycomb has cubic cells centered on the original cubes, on the original faces, on the original edges, on the original vertices, creating 4 colors of cells around in vertex in 1:3:3:1 counts. The orthotopic honeycombs are a family topologically equivalent to the cubic honeycombs but with lower symmetry, in which each of the three axial directions may have different edge lengths. The facets are
hyperrectangles, also called orthotopes; in 2 and 3 dimensions the orthotopes are
rectangles and
cuboids respectively.