User:Double sharp/Polyhedra categorisation
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Bowers' categorisation:
- Regulars
- All the regular polyhedra.
- Truncates
- Truncates and quasitruncates of the regular polyhedra.
- Quasiregulars
- Rectified regular polyhedra plus their facetings (the hemipolyhedra). Thah is also included here. Also here are the three ditrigonal polyhedra: sidtid, ditdid and gidtid.
- Trapeziverts
- Cantellated regular polyhedra plus their facetings. Their facetings include both socco-type and sroh-type (blended) polyhedra.
- Omnitruncates
- Omnitruncated regular polyhedra. Includes great rhombates, great quasirhombates, and cotco and idtid as special cases.
- Snubs
- Alternated great rhombates. Includes Miller's monster.
- Prisms
- The infinite set of prisms.
- Antiprisms
- The infinite set of antiprisms and crossed-antiprisms.
Johnson's categorisation:
- Regulars
- The regular polyhedra only.
- Quasiregulars
- Rectified regular polyhedra plus the ditrigonal polyhedra.
- Hemipolyhedra
- The nine hemipolyhedra only.
- Truncates
- Truncates and quasitruncates of the regulars.
- Cantellates
- The cantellates of the regular polyhedra, together with their socco-like facetings.
- Other even-faced polyhedra
- The sroh-like facetings of the cantellates.
- Omnitruncates
- The great rhombates, great quasirhombates and cotco and idtid.
- Snubs
- Alternated great rhombates. Includes Miller's monster.
- Prisms
- The infinite set of prisms.
- Antiprisms
- The infinite set of antiprisms and crossed-antiprisms.