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Deltahedra et al.

Convex polyhedra using only equilateral triangles for faces are called deltahedra. (Those are known such because of the shape of that upper-case Greek letter.) This kind of restriction could be considered a bit more generally, as well as for higher dimensions. The most general set-up there would be that of isohedral polytopes, being defined as having only a single shape for facets.

The list given here-below restricts to regular facets additionally.

Note: this setup does not require the polytopes to be isogonal in addition, i.e. having just a single type of vertices (vertex surroundings / vertex figures). Polytopes which are both, isogonal and isohedral, commonly are known under the attribute noble.

Facets being {3} (deltahedra)
Facets being {4}
Facets being {5}
Facets being tetrahedra (tetrahedrochora)
Facets being cubes
Facets being octahedra
Facets being dodecahedra
Facets being pentachora (pentachorotera)
Facets being tesseracts


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