- Order-5 square tiling
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Order-5 square tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic planeType Regular hyperbolic tiling Vertex figure 45 Schläfli symbol(s) {4,5} Wythoff symbol(s) 5 | 4 2 Coxeter-Dynkin(s) Coxeter group [5,4] Dual Order-4 pentagonal tiling Properties Vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive In geometry, the order-5 square tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of {4,5}.
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Related polyhedra and tiling
This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure (4n).
{4,3}
{4,4}
{4,5}
{4,6}
{4,7}
{4,8}
... References
- John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations)
- Coxeter, The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays (1999), Dover Publications, LCCN 99-35678, ISBN 0-486-40919-8 (Chapter 10: Regular honeycombs in hyperbolic space)
See also
External links
- Weisstein, Eric W., "Hyperbolic tiling" from MathWorld.
- Weisstein, Eric W., "Poincaré hyperbolic disk" from MathWorld.
- 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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