Order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb and order-4 hexagonal tiling honeycomb all which have octahedral vertex figures: This honeycomb is a part of a sequence of polychora and honeycombs with dodecahedral cells: The rectified order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has alternating octahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a cube vertex figure. There are four rectified compact regular honeycombs: The truncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has octahedron and truncated dodecahedron cells, with a cube vertex figure. It can be seen as analogous to the 2D hyperbolic truncated order-4 pentagonal tiling, t{5,4} with truncated pentagon and square faces: The bitruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, or bitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has
Honeycomb structure as far as we can see, is absolutely perfect in economizing labour and wax”. The first paper honeycomb structures might have been made by the Chinese 2000 years ago for ornaments, but no reference for this has been found. Paper honeycombs and the expansion production process has been invented in Halle/Saale in Germany by Hans Heilbrun in 1901 for decorative applications. First honeycomb structures from corrugated metal sheets had been proposed for bee keeping in 1890. For the same purpose, as foundation sheets to harvest more honey, a honeycomb moulding process using a paper paste glue mixture had been patented