Snub pentapentagonal tiling

In geometry, the snub pentapentagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of sr{5,5}, constructed from two regular pentagons and three equilateral triangles around every vertex.

Images

Drawn in chiral pairs, with edges missing between black triangles:

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Symmetry

A double symmetry coloring can be constructed from [5,4] symmetry with only one color pentagon. It has Schläfli symbol s{5,4}, and Coxeter diagram .

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. 

External links

• Weisstein, Eric W.. "Hyperbolic tiling". http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicTiling.html. 
• Weisstein, Eric W.. "Poincaré hyperbolic disk". http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PoincareHyperbolicDisk.html. 
• Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
• KaleidoTile 3: Educational software to create spherical, planar and hyperbolic tilings
• Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch