Coordinates of a tesseract based on a demitesseract

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Suppose we had a $16$-cell whose eight vertices have the coordinates given in the $16$-cell Wikipedia article:

(±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1)

If we viewed this $16$-cell as one of the two demitesseracts of a certain tesseract (meaning those eight vertices are also vertices of that tesseract), what are the possible coordinates of the other eight vertices of the tesseract?

I understand from this answer that there can be two solutions to this, and I'd like to know both solutions.

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It seems the solutions were practically already there in the answer post I linked to. I just had to divide everything by two in order to get the following:

First solution: $(\pm\frac{1}{2},\pm\frac{1}{2},\pm\frac{1}{2},\pm\frac{1}{2})\text{ with odd number of }-\frac{1}{2}$

Second solution: $(\pm\frac{1}{2},\pm\frac{1}{2},\pm\frac{1}{2},\pm\frac{1}{2})\text{ with even number of }-\frac{1}{2}$