Beschreibung

A taut tetrahedron is a tetrahedron which lies flat in the euclidean space as it has two angles on top and bottom edges and four -angled edges everywhere else.

Definition

A tau tetrahedron is a tetrahedron whose edges have the angles or . At every tetrahedron vertex three edges meet. Their sum is equal to .

Definition

When flattening the tetrahedron the edges going around are called equitorial edges and the four equitorial edges bound a square lying truely inside the tetrahedron, called the equitorial square.

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