Octagonal prism


In geometry, the octagonal prism is a prism comprising eight rectangular sides joining two regular octagon caps.

Symmetry

Images

The octagonal prism can also be seen as a tiling on a sphere:

Use

In optics, octagonal prisms are used to generate flicker-free images in movie projectors.

In uniform honeycombs and 4-polytopes

It is an element of three uniform honeycombs:
Truncated square prismatic honeycomb
Omnitruncated cubic honeycomb
Runcitruncated cubic honeycomb

It is also an element of two four-dimensional uniform 4-polytopes:
Runcitruncated tesseract
Omnitruncated tesseract

Related polyhedra