Heptagonal tiling honeycomb
Heptagonal tiling honeycomb | |
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Type | Regular honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {7,3,3} |
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Cells | {7,3} ![]() |
Faces | Heptagon {7} |
Vertex figure | tetrahedron {3,3} |
Dual | {3,3,7} |
Coxeter group | [7,3,3] |
Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the heptagonal tiling honeycomb or 7,3,3 honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of a heptagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
Geometry
The Schläfli symbol of the heptagonal tiling honeycomb is {7,3,3}, with three heptagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a tetrahedron, {3,3}.
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Related polytopes and honeycombs
It is a part of a series of regular polytopes and honeycombs with {p,3,3} Schläfli symbol, and tetrahedral vertex figures:
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Name | {3,3,3} | {4,3,3} | {5,3,3} | {6,3,3} | {7,3,3} | {8,3,3} | ... {∞,3,3} | |
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Cells {p,3} ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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It is a part of a series of regular honeycombs, {7,3,p}.
{7,3,3} | {7,3,4} | {7,3,5} | {7,3,6} | {7,3,7} | {7,3,8} | ...{7,3,∞} |
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It is a part of a series of regular honeycombs, with {7,p,3}.
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Octagonal tiling honeycomb
Octagonal tiling honeycomb | |
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Type | Regular honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {8,3,3} t{8,4,3} 2t{4,8,4} t{4[3,3]} |
Coxeter diagram | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Cells | {8,3} ![]() |
Faces | Octagon {8} |
Vertex figure | tetrahedron {3,3} |
Dual | {3,3,8} |
Coxeter group | [8,3,3] |
Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the octagonal tiling honeycomb or 8,3,3 honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an octagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
The Schläfli symbol of the octagonal tiling honeycomb is {8,3,3}, with three octagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is an tetrahedron, {3,3}.
![]() Poincaré disk model (vertex centered) |
![]() Direct subgroups of [8,3,3] |
Apeirogonal tiling honeycomb
Apeirogonal tiling honeycomb | |
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Type | Regular honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {∞,3,3} t{∞,3,3} 2t{∞,∞,∞} t{∞[3,3]} |
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Cells | {∞,3} ![]() |
Faces | Apeirogon {∞} |
Vertex figure | tetrahedron {3,3} |
Dual | {3,3,∞} |
Coxeter group | [∞,3,3] |
Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the apeirogonal tiling honeycomb or ∞,3,3 honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an apeirogonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
The Schläfli symbol of the apeirogonal tiling honeycomb is {∞,3,3}, with three apeirogonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is an tetrahedron, {3,3}.
The "ideal surface" projection below is a plane-at-infinity, in the Poincare half-space model of H3. It shows an Apollonian gasket pattern of circles inside a largest circle.
![]() Poincaré disk model (vertex centered) |
![]() Ideal surface |
See also
References
- Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. ISBN 0-486-61480-8. (Tables I and II: Regular polytopes and honeycombs, pp. 294–296)
- The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays (1999), Dover Publications, LCCN 99-35678, ISBN 0-486-40919-8 (Chapter 10, Regular Honeycombs in Hyperbolic Space Archived 2016-06-10 at the Wayback Machine) Table III
- Jeffrey R. Weeks The Shape of Space, 2nd edition ISBN 0-8247-0709-5 (Chapters 16–17: Geometries on Three-manifolds I,II)
- George Maxwell, Sphere Packings and Hyperbolic Reflection Groups, JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA 79,78-97 (1982) [1]
- Hao Chen, Jean-Philippe Labbé, Lorentzian Coxeter groups and Boyd-Maxwell ball packings, (2013)[2]
- Visualizing Hyperbolic Honeycombs arXiv:1511.02851 Roice Nelson, Henry Segerman (2015)
External links
- John Baez, Visual insights: {7,3,3} Honeycomb (2014/08/01) {7,3,3} Honeycomb Meets Plane at Infinity (2014/08/14)
- Danny Calegari, Kleinian, a tool for visualizing Kleinian groups, Geometry and the Imagination 4 March 2014. [3]