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Truncated hexaoctagonal tiling
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In geometry, the truncated hexaoctagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. There are one square, one dodecagon, and one hexakaidecagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of tr{8,6}.
Truncated hexaoctagonal tiling | |
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Type | Hyperbolic uniform tiling |
Vertex configuration | 4.12.16 |
Schläfli symbol | tr{8,6} or |
Wythoff symbol | 2 8 6 | |
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Symmetry group | [8,6], (*862) |
Dual | Order-6-8 kisrhombille tiling |
Properties | Vertex-transitive |
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Dual tiling
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The dual tiling is called an order-6-8 kisrhombille tiling, made as a complete bisection of the order-6 octagonal tiling, here with triangles are shown with alternating colors. This tiling represents the fundamental triangular domains of [8,6] (*862) symmetry. |
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There are six reflective subgroup kaleidoscopic constructed from [8,6] by removing one or two of three mirrors. Mirrors can be removed if its branch orders are all even, and cuts neighboring branch orders in half. Removing two mirrors leaves a half-order gyration point where the removed mirrors met. In these images fundamental domains are alternately colored black and white, and mirrors exist on the boundaries between colors. The subgroup index-8 group, [1+,8,1+,6,1+] (4343) is the commutator subgroup of [8,6].
A radical subgroup is constructed as [8,6*], index 12, as [8,6+], (6*4) with gyration points removed, becomes (*444444), and another [8*,6], index 16 as [8+,6], (8*3) with gyration points removed as (*33333333).
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Related polyhedra and tilings
From a Wythoff construction there are fourteen hyperbolic uniform tilings that can be based from the regular order-6 octagonal tiling.
Drawing the tiles colored as red on the original faces, yellow at the original vertices, and blue along the original edges, there are 7 forms with full [8,6] symmetry, and 7 with subsymmetry.
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Uniform tiling 4-12-16.
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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