Order-4-4 pentagonal honeycomb
| Order-4-4 pentagonal honeycomb | |
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| Type | Regular honeycomb |
| Schläfli symbol | {5,4,4} {5,41,1} |
| Coxeter diagram |      
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| Cells | {5,4} 
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| Faces | {5} |
| Vertex figure | {4,4} |
| Dual | {4,4,5} |
| Coxeter group | [5,4,4] [5,41,1] |
| Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-4-4 pentagonal honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of a pentagonal 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 order-4-4 pentagonal honeycomb is {5,4,4}, with four order-4 pentagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a square tiling, {4,4}.
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Related polytopes and honeycombs
It is a part of a series of regular polytopes and honeycombs with {p,4,4} Schläfli symbol, and square tiling vertex figures:
Order-4-4 hexagonal honeycomb
| Order-4-4 hexagonal honeycomb | |
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| Type | Regular honeycomb |
| Schläfli symbol | {6,4,4} {6,41,1} |
| Coxeter diagram | 
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| Cells | {6,4} 
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| Faces | {6} |
| Vertex figure | {4,4} |
| Dual | {4,4,6} |
| Coxeter group | [6,4,4] [6,41,1] |
| Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-4-4 hexagonal honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an order-4 hexagonal 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 {6,4,4}, with three octagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a square tiling, {4,4}.
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Order-4-4 apeirogonal honeycomb
| Order-4-4 apeirogonal honeycomb | |
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| Type | Regular honeycomb |
| Schläfli symbol | {∞,4,4} {∞,41,1} |
| Coxeter diagram | 
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| Cells | {∞,4} 
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| Faces | {∞} |
| Vertex figure | {4,4} |
| Dual | {4,4,∞} |
| Coxeter group | [∞,4,4] [∞,41,1] |
| Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-4-4 apeirogonal honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an order-4 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 {∞,4,4}, with three order-4 apeirogonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a square tiling, {4,4}.
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See also
- Convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space
- List of regular polytopes
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) 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]
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