- Order-3 snub heptagonal tiling
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Order-3 snub heptagonal tiling
Poincaré_disk_modelType Hyperbolic semiregular tiling Vertex figure 3.3.3.3.7 Schläfli symbol s{7,3} Wythoff symbol | 7 3 2 Coxeter-Dynkin Symmetry [7,3] Dual Order-7-3 floret pentagonal tiling Properties Vertex-transitive Chiral In geometry, the order-3 snub heptagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. There is four triangles, one heptagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of s{7,3}.
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Related polyhedra and tilings
This tiling is part of sequence of snubbed polyhedra with vertex figure (3.3.3.3.p) and Coxeter-Dynkin diagram . These face-transitive figures have (n32) rotational symmetry.
(3.3.3.3.3)
(332)
(3.3.3.3.4)
(432)
(3.3.3.3.5)
(532)
3.3.3.3.6
(632)
3.3.3.3.7
(732)
3.3.3.3.8
(832)Dual tiling
The dual tiling is called an order-7-3 floret pentagonal tiling, and is related to the floret pentagonal tiling.
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
- Snub hexagonal tiling
- Order-3 heptagonal tiling
- Tilings of regular polygons
- List of uniform planar tilings
- Kagome lattice
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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