PARDESCO
Grand Antiprism 4D Art Print
- Design
- Grand Antiprism (4D polytope, stereographic projection)
- Colourways
- Gold on Indigo or Lapis on Vellum
- Sizes
- 11 × 14, 16 × 20, 18 × 24 or 24 × 36 inches, portrait
- Format
- Print, or framed in matte black wood, ready to hang
- Paper
- Museum-quality matte paper, 189 g/m², archival inks
- Shipping
- Printed to order; free US shipping
$44.00
Printed to order and shipped in 3–7 business days · free US shipping.
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Grand Antiprism
The grand antiprism: 100 vertices, 500 edges and 320 cells (20 pentagonal antiprisms and 300 tetrahedra). John Conway and Michael Guy found it by computer search in 1965.
A stereographic projection of the whole four-dimensional polytope, from the 4D engine Pardesco built for its polytope viewer. Each edge is a tube of constant radius in 4D, so the ribbons thin toward the centre. Two colourways: gold on indigo (gilded ribbons on deep indigo with lapis, malachite and madder), or lapis on vellum (gilded ribbons on warm vellum with lapis, malachite and madder).
It is one of a series of 4D polytope prints in the same finish, alongside the grand antiprism, the 24-cell and the 48-cell. To explore the shapes in motion, open the 4D polytope viewer.
| Sizes | 11 × 14, 16 × 20, 18 × 24 or 24 × 36 inches |
| Format | Print (unframed), or framed in matte black wood with an acrylic front, ready to hang |
| Paper | Museum-quality matte paper, archival inks |
Common Questions
Your choice. Framed arrives ready to hang in a matte black wood frame (0.75 in thick) with a clear acrylic front and hanging hardware. The print fills the frame with no mat: its own paper margin around the figure does that job. Print ships unframed and fits a standard ready-made frame of the same size.
A museum-quality matte poster paper (189 g/m²) with archival inks. The matte surface keeps the painted texture and fine lines crisp without glare.
No. The gold is printed as a warm ochre with a soft painted sheen, the way gilding reads in a printed book plate. It is not foil or metallic ink.
No. Every size is rendered from the same geometry at full print resolution, and the figure spans the same share of the sheet’s width. The 24 × 36 is a taller sheet, so it has more paper above and below the figure. Pick a size above to see it to scale on a wall.
Each print is made to order (framed ones are framed by hand) and usually ships within 2–5 business days, then about 3–7 days in transit within the US. US shipping is free.
Printed to order · Unframed or framed