Snub hexahexagonal tiling

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Snub hexahexagonal tiling
Snub hexahexagonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
Type Hyperbolic uniform tiling
Vertex configuration 3.3.6.3.6
Schläfli symbol s{6,4}
sr{6,6}
Wythoff symbol | 6 6 2
Coxeter diagram CDel node h.pngCDel 6.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.png
CDel node h.pngCDel 6.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 6.pngCDel node h.png
Symmetry group [6,6]+, (662)
[6+,4], (6*2)
Dual Order-6-6 floret hexagonal tiling
Properties Vertex-transitive

In geometry, the snub hexahexagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of sr{6,6}.

Images

Drawn in chiral pairs, with edges missing between black triangles:

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Symmetry

A higher symmetry coloring can be constructed from [6,4] symmetry as s{6,4}, CDel node h.pngCDel 6.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.png. In this construction there is only one color of hexagon.

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Related polyhedra and 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)
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