Isoclinic rotations relate the regular convex 4-polytopes to each other as a sequence of increasingly 3-spherical convex hulls of isoclinic compounds of their predecessors. A general principle of the relationship of a 4-polytope to its adjacent 4-polytopes in the sequence emerges from a comparison of their characteristic isoclines, the circular helical geodesic paths traced by their vertices under isoclinic rotation. A regular 4-polytope's isocline chords are found in the chords of its predecessor's facets, and its isocline vertex figures are the vertex figures of its successor's facets.

The main sequence of the six regular convex 4-polytopes is evident in their vertex counts,^[a] and within that sequence is a subsequence of four with triangular faces representing the major Coxeter symmetry groups: the 5-cell (tetrahedral A₄ symmetry), 16-cell (octahedral B₄ symmetry), 24-cell (F₄ symmetry), and 600-cell (icosahedral H₄ symmetry).

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Regular convex 4-polytopes
5-cell Hyper- tetrahedron	16-cell Hyper- octahedron	8-cell Hyper- cube	24-cell	600-cell Hyper- icosahedron	120-cell Hyper- dodecahedron
1 {5/2} x 2	1 {8/2}=2{4} x 3	2 {8/2}=2{4} x 3	2 {12/4}=4{3} x 4	20 {30/4}=2{15/2} x 6	100 {30/4}=2{15/2} x 6

Sequence of 6 regular convex 4-polytopes
Symmetry group	A4	B4		F4	H4
Name	5-cell Hyper-tetrahedron 5-point	16-cell Hyper-octahedron 8-point	8-cell Hyper-cube 16-point	24-cell Hyper-cuboctahedron 24-point	600-cell Hyper-icosahedron 120-point	120-cell Hyper-dodecahedron 600-point
Schläfli symbol	{3, 3, 3}	{3, 3, 4}	{4, 3, 3}	{3, 4, 3}	{3, 3, 5}	{5, 3, 3}
Coxeter mirrors
Mirror dihedrals	𝝅/3 𝝅/3 𝝅/3 𝝅/2 𝝅/2 𝝅/2	𝝅/3 𝝅/3 𝝅/4 𝝅/2 𝝅/2 𝝅/2	𝝅/4 𝝅/3 𝝅/3 𝝅/2 𝝅/2 𝝅/2	𝝅/3 𝝅/4 𝝅/3 𝝅/2 𝝅/2 𝝅/2	𝝅/3 𝝅/3 𝝅/5 𝝅/2 𝝅/2 𝝅/2	𝝅/5 𝝅/3 𝝅/3 𝝅/2 𝝅/2 𝝅/2
Graph
Vertices[d]	5 tetrahedral	8 octahedral	16 tetrahedral	24 cubical	120 icosahedral	600 tetrahedral
Edges	10 triangular	24 square	32 triangular	96 triangular	720 pentagonal	1200 triangular
Faces	10 triangles	32 triangles	24 squares	96 triangles	1200 triangles	720 pentagons
Cells	5 {3, 3}	16 {3, 3}	8 {4, 3}	24 {3, 4}	600 {3, 3}	120 {5, 3}
Tori	5 {3, 3}	8 {3, 3} x 2	4 {4, 3} x 2	6 {3, 4} x 4	30 {3, 3} x 20	10 {5, 3} x 12
Inscribed	120 in 120-cell	675 in 120-cell	2 16-cells	3 8-cells	25 24-cells	10 600-cells
Great polygons		2 squares x 3[e]	4 rectangles x 4	4 hexagons x 4	12 decagons x 6	100 irregular hexagons x 4
Petrie polygons	1 pentagon x 2	1 octagon x 3	2 octagons x 4	2 dodecagons x 4	4 30-gons x 6	20 30-gons x 4
Long radius	${\displaystyle 1}$	${\displaystyle 1}$	${\displaystyle 1}$	${\displaystyle 1}$	${\displaystyle 1}$	${\displaystyle 1}$
Edge length[f]	${\displaystyle {\sqrt {\tfrac {5}{2}}}\approx 1.581}$	${\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}\approx 1.414}$	${\displaystyle 1}$	${\displaystyle 1}$	${\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{\phi }}\approx 0.618}$	${\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{\phi ^{2}{\sqrt {2}}}}\approx 0.270}$
Short radius	${\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{4}}}$	${\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{2}}}$	${\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{2}}}$	${\displaystyle {\sqrt {\tfrac {1}{2}}}\approx 0.707}$	${\displaystyle {\sqrt {\tfrac {\phi ^{4}}{8}}}\approx 0.926}$	${\displaystyle {\sqrt {\tfrac {\phi ^{4}}{8}}}\approx 0.926}$
Area	${\displaystyle 10\left({\tfrac {5{\sqrt {3}}}{8}}\right)\approx 10.825}$	${\displaystyle 32\left({\sqrt {\tfrac {3}{4}}}\right)\approx 27.713}$	${\displaystyle 24}$	${\displaystyle 96\left({\sqrt {\tfrac {3}{16}}}\right)\approx 41.569}$	${\displaystyle 1200\left({\tfrac {\sqrt {3}}{4\phi ^{2}}}\right)\approx 198.48}$	${\displaystyle 720\left({\tfrac {\sqrt {25+10{\sqrt {5}}}}{8\phi ^{4}}}\right)\approx 90.366}$
Volume	${\displaystyle 5\left({\tfrac {5{\sqrt {5}}}{24}}\right)\approx 2.329}$	${\displaystyle 16\left({\tfrac {1}{3}}\right)\approx 5.333}$	${\displaystyle 8}$	${\displaystyle 24\left({\tfrac {\sqrt {2}}{3}}\right)\approx 11.314}$	${\displaystyle 600\left({\tfrac {\sqrt {2}}{12\phi ^{3}}}\right)\approx 16.693}$	${\displaystyle 120\left({\tfrac {15+7{\sqrt {5}}}{4\phi ^{6}{\sqrt {8}}}}\right)\approx 18.118}$
4-Content	${\displaystyle {\tfrac {\sqrt {5}}{24}}\left({\tfrac {\sqrt {5}}{2}}\right)^{4}\approx 0.146}$	${\displaystyle {\tfrac {2}{3}}\approx 0.667}$	${\displaystyle 1}$	${\displaystyle 2}$	${\displaystyle {\tfrac {{\text{Short}}\times {\text{Vol}}}{4}}\approx 3.863}$	${\displaystyle {\tfrac {{\text{Short}}\times {\text{Vol}}}{4}}\approx 4.193}$

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The convex regular 4-polytopes can be ordered by size as a measure of 4-dimensional content (hypervolume) for the same radius. Each greater polytope in the sequence is rounder than its predecessor, enclosing more content^[1] within the same radius. The 4-simplex (5-cell) is the limit smallest case, and the 120-cell is the largest. Complexity (as measured by comparing configuration matrices or simply the number of vertices) follows the same ordering. This provides an alternative numerical naming scheme for regular polytopes in which the 600-cell is the 120-point 4-polytope: fifth in the ascending sequence that runs from 5-point 4-polytope to 600-point 4-polytope.
2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named isoclinic geodesic
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