- Order-4 pentagonal tiling
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Order-4 pentagonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic planeType Regular hyperbolic tiling Vertex figure 5.5.5.5 Schläfli symbol(s) {5,4} Wythoff symbol(s) 4 | 5 2 Coxeter-Dynkin(s) Coxeter group [5,4] Dual Order-5 square tiling Properties Vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive In geometry, the order-4 pentagonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of {5,4}.
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Related polyhedra and tiling
This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with pentagonal faces, starting with the dodecahedron, with Schläfli symbol {5,n}, and Coxeter diagram , progressing to infinity.
{5,3}
{5,4}
{5,5}
{5,6}
{5,7}
This tiling is also topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with four faces per vertex, starting with the octahedron, with Schläfli symbol {n,4}, and Coxeter diagram , with n progressing to infinity.
{3,4}
{4,4}
{5,4}
{6,4}
{7,4}
...
{∞,4}
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)
- 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
- Square tiling
- Tilings of regular polygons
- List of uniform planar tilings
- List of regular polytopes
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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