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Order-7 heptagonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
Type	Hyperbolic regular tiling
Vertex configuration	7
Schläfli symbol	{7,7}
Wythoff symbol	7 | 7 2
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry group	, (*772)
Dual	self dual
Properties	Vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive

In geometry, the order-7 heptagonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of {7,7}, constructed from seven heptagons around every vertex. As such, it is self-dual.

Related tilings

Uniform heptaheptagonal tilings v t e
Symmetry: , (*772)							, (772)
= =	= =	= =	= =	= =	= =	= =	= =
{7,7}	t{7,7}	r{7,7}	2t{7,7}=t{7,7}	2r{7,7}={7,7}	rr{7,7}	tr{7,7}	sr{7,7}
Uniform duals
V7	V7.14.14	V7.7.7.7	V7.14.14	V7	V4.7.4.7	V4.14.14	V3.3.7.3.7

This tiling is a part of regular series {n,7}:

Tiles of the form {n,7}
Spherical	Hyperbolic tilings v t e
{2,7}	{3,7}	{4,7}	{5,7}	{6,7}	{7,7}	{8,7}	...	{∞,7}

See also

• Square tiling
• Uniform tilings in hyperbolic plane
• List of regular polytopes

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

v t e Tessellation
Periodic Pythagorean Rhombille Schwarz triangle Rectangle Domino Uniform tiling and honeycomb Coloring Convex Kisrhombille Wallpaper group Wythoff
Aperiodic Ammann–Beenker Aperiodic set of prototiles List Einstein problem Socolar–Taylor Gilbert Penrose Pinwheel Quaquaversal Rep-tile and Self-tiling Sphinx Socolar Truchet
Other Anisohedral and Isohedral Architectonic and catoptric Circle Limit III Computer graphics Honeycomb Isotoxal List Packing Pentagonal Problems Domino Wang Heesch's Squaring Dividing a square into similar rectangles Prototile Conway criterion Girih Regular Division of the Plane Regular grid Substitution Voronoi Voderberg
By vertex type Spherical 2 3.n V3.n 4.n V4.n Regular 2 3 4 6 Semi- regular 3.4.3.4 V3.4.3.4 3.4 3.∞ 3.6 V3.6 3.4.6.4 (3.6) 3.12 4.∞ 4.6.12 4.8 Hyper- bolic 3.4.3.5 3.4.3.6 3.4.3.7 3.4.3.8 3.4.3.∞ 3.5.3.5 3.5.3.6 3.6.3.6 3.6.3.8 3.7.3.7 3.8.3.8 3.4.3.4 3.∞.3.∞ 3.7 3.8 3.∞ 3.4 3 3 3 (3.4) (3.4) 3.4.6.4 3.4.7.4 3.4.8.4 3.4.∞.4 3.6.4.6 (3.7) (3.8) 3.14 3.16 3.∞ 4.5.4 4.6.4 4.7.4 4.8.4 4.∞.4 4 4 4 4 4 (4.5) (4.6) 4.6.12 4.6.14 V4.6.14 4.6.16 V4.6.16 4.6.∞ (4.7) (4.8) 4.8.10 V4.8.10 4.8.12 4.8.14 4.8.16 4.8.∞ 4.10 4.10.12 4.12 4.12.16 4.14 4.16 4.∞ 5 5 5 5 5.4.6.4 (5.6) 5.8 5.10 5.12 6 6 6 6 6.4.8.4 (6.8) 6.8 6.10 6.12 6.16 7 7 7 7.6 7.8 7.14 8 8 8 8 8.6 8.12 8.16 ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞.6 ∞.8

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