Snub tetraoctagonal tiling
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| Snub tetraoctagonal tiling | |
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 Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane | |
| Type | Hyperbolic uniform tiling |
| Vertex configuration | 3.3.4.3.8 |
| Schläfli symbol | sr{8,4} or |
| Wythoff symbol | | 8 4 2 |
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| Symmetry group | [8,4]+, (842) |
| Dual | Order-8-4 floret pentagonal tiling |
| Properties | Vertex-transitive Chiral |
In geometry, the snub tetraoctagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of sr{8,4}.
Images
Drawn in chiral pairs, with edges missing between black triangles:
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Related polyhedra and tiling
The snub tetraoctagonal tiling is seventh in a series of snub polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure 3.3.4.3.n.
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| 242 | 342 | 442 | 542 | 642 | 742 | 842 | ∞42 | |
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| Config. | 3.3.4.3.2 | 3.3.4.3.3 | 3.3.4.3.4 | 3.3.4.3.5 | 3.3.4.3.6 | 3.3.4.3.7 | 3.3.4.3.8 | 3.3.4.3.∞ |
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| Config. | V3.3.4.3.2 | V3.3.4.3.3 | V3.3.4.3.4 | V3.3.4.3.5 | V3.3.4.3.6 | V3.3.4.3.7 | V3.3.4.3.8 | V3.3.4.3.∞ |
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| [8,4], (*842) (with [8,8] (*882), [(4,4,4)] (*444) , [∞,4,∞] (*4222) index 2 subsymmetries) (And [(∞,4,∞,4)] (*4242) index 4 subsymmetry) | |||||||||||
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| {8,4} | t{8,4} |
r{8,4} | 2t{8,4}=t{4,8} | 2r{8,4}={4,8} | rr{8,4} | tr{8,4} | |||||
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| V84 | V4.16.16 | V(4.8)2 | V8.8.8 | V48 | V4.4.4.8 | V4.8.16 | |||||
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| [1+,8,4] (*444) |
[8+,4] (8*2) |
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| h{8,4} | s{8,4} | hr{8,4} | s{4,8} | h{4,8} | hrr{8,4} | sr{8,4} | |||||
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| V(4.4)4 | V3.(3.8)2 | V(4.4.4)2 | V(3.4)3 | V88 | V4.44 | V3.3.4.3.8 | |||||
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.
See also
- Square tiling
- Tilings of regular polygons
- List of uniform planar tilings
- List of regular polytopes
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
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