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Zonohedron vs Zonotope - What's the difference?

zonohedron | zonotope |

In geometry terms the difference between zonohedron and zonotope

is that zonohedron is a special case of convex polyhedron, in which every face of the polyhedron is a polygon with point symmetry while zonotope is a polytope formed by the Minkowski sum of a zonohedron's line segments in any dimension.

zonohedron

English

(wikipedia zonohedron)

Noun

(zonohedra)
  • (geometry) A special case of convex polyhedron, in which every face of the polyhedron is a polygon with point symmetry.

    • zonotope

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) A polytope formed by the Minkowski sum of a zonohedron's line segments in any dimension.

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