Laminatopes

A Laminatope is a polytope bounded by unbounded planes. While as a class, they are not terribly exciting, laminatopes can be filled in to give some exciting items.

• Laminate Caps: figures bounded by laminahedra
• Laminatruncates: lt{p,q,r,s} and xt{p,q,r,s}

The family of laminatopes is distinguished from infinite figures, in that laminatopes have multiple surfaces, often centred on different centres.

     Aperitope                    Laminatope

    -o-----o-----o---        ---o-----o-----o-----o
    .................        ../.\.../.\.../.\.../.
    .................        ./...\./...\./...\./..
    .................        o-----o-----o-----o----
    .................
    .................        (filled with triangles)

A laminatope has multiple sides.

Copyright 2002 Wendy Krieger