Snub apeiroapeirogonal tiling

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Short description: Type of uniform tiling in geometry


Snub apeiroapeirogonal tiling
Snub apeiroapeirogonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
Type Hyperbolic uniform tiling
Vertex configuration 3.3.∞.3.∞
Schläfli symbol s{∞,4}
sr{∞,∞} or s{∞∞}
Wythoff symbol | ∞ ∞ 2
Coxeter diagram
or
Symmetry group [∞,∞]+, (∞∞2)
Dual Infinitely-infinite-order floret pentagonal tiling
Properties Vertex-transitive Chiral

In geometry, the snub apeiroapeirogonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of s{∞,∞}. It has 3 equilateral triangles and 2 apeirogons around every vertex, with vertex figure 3.3.∞.3.∞.

Dual tiling

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The snub tetrapeirogonal tiling is last in an infinite series of snub polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure 3.3.n.3.n.

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.