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Truncated trioctagonal tiling
Semiregular tiling of the hyperbolic plane From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In geometry, the truncated trioctagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. There are one square, one hexagon, and one hexadecagon (16-sides) on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of tr{8,3}.
| Truncated trioctagonal tiling | |
|---|---|
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane | |
| Type | Hyperbolic uniform tiling |
| Vertex configuration | 4.6.16 |
| Schläfli symbol | tr{8,3} or |
| Wythoff symbol | 2 8 3 | |
| Coxeter diagram |    or   |
| Symmetry group | [8,3], (*832) |
| Dual | Order 3-8 kisrhombille |
| Properties | Vertex-transitive |
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Symmetry
The dual of this tiling, the order 3-8 kisrhombille, represents the fundamental domains of [8,3] (*832) symmetry. There are 3 small index subgroups constructed from [8,3] by mirror removal and alternation. In these images fundamental domains are alternately colored black and white, and mirrors exist on the boundaries between colors.
A larger index 6 subgroup constructed as [8,3*], becomes [(4,4,4)], (*444). An intermediate index 3 subgroup is constructed as [8,3⅄], with 2/3 of blue mirrors removed.
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Order 3-8 kisrhombille
The order 3-8 kisrhombille is a semiregular dual tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It is constructed by congruent right triangles with 4, 6, and 16 triangles meeting at each vertex.
The image shows a Poincaré disk model projection of the hyperbolic plane.
It is labeled V4.6.16 because each right triangle face has three types of vertices: one with 4 triangles, one with 6 triangles, and one with 16 triangles. It is the dual tessellation of the truncated trioctagonal tiling, described above.
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Naming
An alternative name is 3-8 kisrhombille by Conway, seeing it as a 3-8 rhombic tiling, divided by a kis operator, adding a center point to each rhombus, and dividing into four triangles.
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Perspective
This tiling is one of 10 uniform tilings constructed from [8,3] hyperbolic symmetry and three subsymmetries [1+,8,3], [8,3+] and [8,3]+.
This tiling can be considered a member of a sequence of uniform patterns with vertex figure (4.6.2p) and Coxeter-Dynkin diagram 
. For p < 6, the members of the sequence are omnitruncated polyhedra (zonohedrons), shown below as spherical tilings. For p > 6, they are tilings of the hyperbolic plane, starting with the truncated triheptagonal tiling.
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See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Uniform tiling 4-6-16.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Uniform dual tiling V 4-6-16.
References
- John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations)
- "Chapter 10: Regular honeycombs in hyperbolic space". The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays. Dover Publications. 1999. ISBN 0-486-40919-8. LCCN 99035678.
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