| Rhombitetrahexagonal tiling | |
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| Type | Hyperbolic uniform tiling |
| Vertex configuration | 4.4.6.4 |
| Schläfli symbol | rr{6,4} or |
| Wythoff symbol | 4 | 6 2 |
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| Symmetry group | , (*642) |
| Dual | Deltoidal tetrahexagonal tiling |
| Properties | Vertex-transitive |
In geometry, the rhombitetrahexagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of rr{6,4}. It can be seen as constructed as a rectified tetrahexagonal tiling, r{6,4}, as well as an expanded order-4 hexagonal tiling or expanded order-6 square tiling.
Constructions
There are two uniform constructions of this tiling, one from or (*642) symmetry, and secondly removing the mirror middle, , gives a rectangular fundamental domain , (*3222).
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| Schläfli symbol | rr{6,4} | t0,1,2,3{∞,3,∞} |
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There are 3 lower symmetry forms seen by including edge-colorings: sees the hexagons as truncated triangles, with two color edges, with (4*3) symmetry. sees the yellow squares as rectangles, with two color edges, with (6*2) symmetry. A final quarter symmetry combines these colorings, with (32×) symmetry, with 2 and 3 fold gyration points and glide reflections.
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This four color tiling is related to a semiregular infinite skew polyhedron with the same vertex figure in Euclidean 3-space with a prismatic honeycomb construction of 
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Symmetry
The dual tiling, called a deltoidal tetrahexagonal tiling, represents the fundamental domains of the *3222 orbifold, shown here from three different centers. Its fundamental domain is a Lambert quadrilateral, with 3 right angles. This symmetry can be seen from a , (*642) triangular symmetry with one mirror removed, constructed as , (*3222). Removing half of the blue mirrors doubles the domain again into *3322 symmetry.
Related polyhedra and tiling
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| Config. | 3.4.4.4 | 4.4.4.4 | 5.4.4.4 | 6.4.4.4 | 7.4.4.4 | 8.4.4.4 | ∞.4.4.4 | ||||
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| Symmetry: , (*642) (with (*662), (*443) , (*3222) index 2 subsymmetries) (And (*3232) index 4 subsymmetry) | |||||||||||
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See also
References
- John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations)
- "Chapter 10: Regular honeycombs in hyperbolic space". The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays. Dover Publications. 1999. ISBN 0-486-40919-8. LCCN 99035678.
External links
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Hyperbolic tiling". MathWorld.
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Poincaré hyperbolic disk". MathWorld.
- Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
- KaleidoTile 3: Educational software to create spherical, planar and hyperbolic tilings
- Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch