Prism

A prism is a polytope formed as the prism product of a given polytope (the base) and a dyad. It can be thought of as the base extruded into the next dimension. Prisms can be constructed in any dimension.

The facets of a prism are 2 copies of the base polytope plus prisms of whatever facets the base has. For example, a truncated icosahedral prism has as cells 2 truncated icosahedra (the bases), 12 pentagonal prisms (from the pentagons), and 20 hexagonal prisms (from the hexagons).

Any polytope that is uniform, scaliform, CRF, or isogonal will preserve these attributes in its prism.

The vertex figure of a prism is generally a pyramid of the vertex figure of the base. for example the icosahedral prism has a pentagonal pyramid shaped vertex figure.

If the base polytope has circumradius r and the height of the prism is 1, the circumradius of the prism is given simply by $\sqrt{r^{2}+1/4}$, while its hypervolume is clearly identical to that of the base.