Based on the comments from Wendy Krieger below, I accept this observation from მამუკა ჯიბლაძე as an acceptable answer to the question "product of all coordinates is 1 for E, -1 for O and 0 for A" Comments from Wendy Krieger 11/06/2018: There is a geometric description here, which has to deal with reflections. A reflection in a mirror will produce a reversed image, that is, convert 1 to -1. If you place two mirrors at right-angles, the image in the corner is a double reflection, or -1 * -1 = +1. So if you looked at yourself in this arrangement, when you lift your right hand, the image lift its right hand too. In a single reflection, a right hand is reflected to the image's left hand. The most likely source for this is the rectangular mirrors (the ones like x=0, and y=0, and z=0), are flipping the image back and forward. What it probably means in terms of your experiment is that A-X and A+X somehow add to the same measure, but the difference from A is being inverted. The whole of E8 is a eutactic star. The two 24-cells are eutactic stars, severally and jointly, and the thing you are looking at is one of the 16chora inscribed in the 24-cells. The 24ch is the group of order 192, can be divided into three 4r's (16ch) or lines at right angles. These three can be labeled say N, E, O. The vertices of the form (1,1,1,1) etc, can be formed by an 'even' sum of four N axies, or an odd sum of four O axies. even and odd here means that the axies are labeled as +1 to -1, and an e/o number of negatives are used. Likewise, (2,0,0,0) can be formed by an 'even' number of E or an 'odd' number of O vectors. The signs then correspond to reflections in the N star, which inverts exactly one axis (eg w,x,y,z -> -w,x,y,z) and to get to other points, you have to reflect in the x, y, and/or z mirror too. The progression from O to N to E is a linear operation in odd dimensions, but involves some sort of turn in even ones. This is why they can be treated symmetrically in 4 and 8 dimensions. Added 20 Dec 2018: For those familiar with at least the rudiments of biomolecular translation (the process by which messages transcribed from genes are translated into proteins), the following conceptual cheat-sheet may help explain why an affirmative answer to the "generalized Kronecker delta" question was so important to my research team. In order to be able to deliver on the claims made in this cheat-sheet, we needed to be able to show that given Wendy's construction, we can define a "high" (+1), "low" (-1), and a midpoint between them (0). And the affirmative answer provided to the question by @მამუკაჯიბლაძე tells us that this is possible. Conceptual Cheat-Sheet Our analysis deals solely with sets of dicodons and the sets of dipeptides they encode, NOT with individual codons and encoded amino acids, nor with individual dicodons and encoded dipeptides. Our analysis deals solely with the energetic properties of sets of dicodons, the affinity properties of sets of dipeptides (hydrophobicity), and the synthetase affiliation properties of sets of dipeptides (Class I or Class II). No other properties of dicodons or dipeptides are relevant to the analysis. Our analysis identifies certain energetic symmetries in the energetic patterns exhibited by our sets of dicodons. Our analysis identifies certain affinity symmetries in the affinity patterns exhibited by our sets of dipeptides. Our analysis identifies certain affiliation symmetries in the affiliation patterns exhibited by our sets of dipeptides. Our analysis identifies certain consistent symmetry relations between energetic symmetries and affinity symmetries, and also between energetic symmetries and affiliation symmetries. These symmetry relations hold for: i) both amino acids of dipeptides (AA1 and AA2 in a dipeptide AA1AA2); or ii) AA1 only; or iii) AA2 only; or iv) neither. And we interpret (i-iv) as suggesting that sets of dipeptides assumed functionality in protein structure according to this rough 3-way chronology: Early onset of functionality: sets of dipeptides exhibiting symmetry relations to their dicodon sets for both AA1And AA2 Late onset of functionality: sets of dipeptides exhibiting symmetry relations to their dicodon sets for neither AA1 nor AA2 Onset midway: sets of dipeptides exhibiting symmetry relations to their dicodon set for AA1 or AA2 but not botj Our rationale for this chronology is that early onset dipeptide sets assumed functionality when mRNA energetics were still important in early translation systems, whereas late onset dipeptides assumed functionality in relatively mature translation systems in which mRNA energetics were relatively less important (primarily due to the advent of the water-tight ribosome.) This hypothetical chronology is fully falsifiable by determining if it makes correct predictions with respect to “early-late” pairs of SCOP protein families within SCOP superfamilies (where protein family age is taken as the ranking assigned by GCA and his team.)