Schlegel diagram




In geometry, a Schlegel diagram is a projection of a polytope from into
through a point beyond one of its facets or faces. The resulting entity is a polytopal subdivision of the facet in
that is combinatorially equivalent to the original polytope. Named for Victor Schlegel, who in 1886 introduced this tool for studying combinatorial and topological properties of polytopes. In dimensions 3 and 4, a Schlegel diagram is a projection of a polyhedron into a plane figure and a projection of a 4-polytope to 3-space, respectively. As such, Schlegel diagrams are commonly used as a means of visualizing four-dimensional polytopes.