Acronym ...
Name Shephard's 4-generalised hexadecachoron,
complex polychoron x2-3-o2-3-o2-4-o4,
β44
 
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Vertex figure x2-3-o2-4-o4
Coordinates (in, 0, 0, 0)   & all permutations, each for any 1≤n≤4
Dual x4-4-o2-3-o2-3-o2
Face vector 16, 96, 256, 256
Confer
more general:
x2-3-o2-3-o2-4-op  
general polytopal classes:
complex polytopes  
External
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This complex polychoron is somewhat special in so far as its edges, faces, and calls all are degenerate, i.e. remain real space polytopes only. However, its vertex figure is the truely complex polyhedron x2-3-o2-4-o4. Thence it still remains embeddable into a real space polyzetton, in fact into the tegum product of 4 (fully orthogonal) squares. In fact the to be chosen cells are just the lacing tets, which have one vertex on each of those squares.


Incidence matrix according to Dynkin symbol

x2-3-o2-3-o2-4-o4

.    .    .    .  | 16  12 |  48 |  64
-----------------+----+----+-----+----
x2   .    .    .  |  2 | 96    8 |  16
-----------------+----+----+-----+----
x2-3-o2   .    .  |  3 |  3 | 256 |   4
-----------------+----+----+-----+----
x2-3-o2-3-o2   .    4 |  6 |   4 | 256

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