5-demicubic honeycomb
The 5-demicube honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 5-space. It is constructed as an alternation of the regular 5-cube honeycomb.
It is the first tessellation in the demihypercube honeycomb family which, with all the next ones, is not regular, being composed of two different types of uniform facets. The 5-cubes become alternated into 5-demicubes h and the alternated vertices create 5-orthoplex facets.
D5 lattice
The vertex arrangement of the 5-demicubic honeycomb is the D5 lattice which is the densest known sphere packing in 5 dimensions. The 40 vertices of the rectified 5-orthoplex vertex figure of the 5-demicubic honeycomb reflect the kissing number 40 of this lattice.The D packing can be constructed by the union of two D5 lattices. The analogous packings form lattices only in even dimensions. The kissing number is 24=16.
The D lattice can be constructed by the union of all four 5-demicubic lattices: It is also the 5-dimensional body centered cubic, the union of two 5-cube honeycombs in dual positions.
The kissing number of the D lattice is 10 and it Voronoi tessellation is a tritruncated 5-cubic honeycomb,, containing all with bitruncated 5-orthoplex, Voronoi cells.
Symmetry constructions
There are three uniform construction symmetries of this tessellation. Each symmetry can be represented by arrangements of different colors on the 32 5-demicube facets around each vertex.| Coxeter group | Schläfli symbol | Coxeter-Dynkin diagram | Vertex figure Symmetry | Facets/verf |
| = = | h | = | 32: 5-demicube 10: 5-orthoplex | |
| = = | h | = | 16+16: 5-demicube 10: 5-orthoplex | |
| 2×½ = | ht0,5 | 16+8+8: 5-demicube 10: 5-orthoplex |