solidstetrahedron

Solidstetrahedron is a solid geometric figure known as a tetrahedron. It is a polyhedron with four triangular faces, six edges, and four vertices. In the hierarchy of simple polyhedra, the tetrahedron is the simplest 3D shape formed by triangular facets and is the only regular polyhedron with four faces.

A tetrahedron can be regular or irregular. In a regular tetrahedron, all edges are equal, every face is an equilateral triangle, and the figure has high symmetry. For a regular tetrahedron with edge length a, the volume is V = a^3/(6√2) and the surface area is A = √3 a^2. The circumradius (distance from the center to a vertex) is R = a√6/4, and the inradius (distance from the center to a face) is r = a√6/12. The dihedral angle between any two faces is arccos(1/3), about 70.53 degrees.

In general, a tetrahedron is determined by four non-coplanar points and can be described by the scalar triple product: V = (1/6)| (a−d) · [ (b−d) × (c−d) ] | for vertices a, b, c, d. Its Euler characteristic satisfies V − E + F = 2, with V = 4, E = 6, F = 4.

Applications of solidstetrahedrons include computer graphics, finite element meshes, and geometric modeling. While a single regular tetrahedron does not tile space by itself, combinations of tetrahedra with other polyhedra can fill space in tessellations. The tetrahedron is also self-dual in the sense that its dual polyhedron is another tetrahedron.