In geometry, the octagonal prism is a prism comprising eight rectangular sides joining two regular octagon caps.
The octagonal prism can also be seen as a tiling on a sphere: In optics, octagonal prisms are used to generate flicker-free images in movie projectors.
It is an element of three uniform honeycombs: It is also an element of two four-dimensional uniform 4-polytopes: This polyhedron-related article is a stub.
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