Star polygons in art and culture Star polygons in art and culture Star polygons and polygonal compounds are the basis for numerous figures of significance in arts and culture. The figure may be the border or interior of the polygon, or one or more closed polygonal paths that include all of the border and also have some legs crossing the interior. Impressions of astronomical stars provide the term, but specific uses may exploit the connection or not. Stars often represent the unity of states within a country when they are used as a part of the flag. The five-pointed star, if drawn with points of equal
Rectification (geometry) 2r{p,q...}. For polyhedra, a birectification creates a dual polyhedron. Higher degree rectifications can be constructed for higher dimensional polytopes. In general an n-rectification truncates "n-faces" to points. If an n-polytope is (n-1)-rectified, its facets are reduced to points and the polytope becomes its dual. There are different equivalent notations for each degree of rectification. These tables show the names by dimension and the two type of facets for each. Facets are edges, represented as {2}. Facets are regular polygons. Facets are regular or rectified polyhedra. Facets are regular or rectified 4-polytopes. Rectification (geometry) In Euclidean geometry, rectification or complete-truncation is