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Omnitruncated simplectic honeycomb

Imagine you are playing with building blocks. You have a bunch of cubes and you can stack them on top of each other to create a tower. Now imagine that each cube is a shape in 3D space called a "facet".

Now, let's talk about something called a "honeycomb". A honeycomb is a pattern where the facets are arranged in a repeating way, like a bee's honeycomb. But this honeycomb is special because it is made up of shapes called "simplectic" facets. These shapes have special properties that make them important in math and physics.

If you take this honeycomb and cut off the corners of each facet, you get something called an "omnitruncated" honeycomb. This sounds like a big word, but it just means you're cutting off the corners.

So when you put all of these simplectic facets together, you get this really cool mathematical pattern called an "omnitruncated simplectic honeycomb". And it turns out that this pattern has a lot of interesting properties that are important in areas like geometry and topology.