Truncated order-6 square tiling

Truncated order-6 square tiling
Truncated order-6 square tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
TypeHyperbolic uniform tiling
Vertex configuration8.8.6
Schläfli symbolt{4,6}
Wythoff symbol2 6 | 4
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry group[6,4], (*642)
[(3,3,4)], (*334)
DualOrder-4 hexakis hexagonal tiling
PropertiesVertex-transitive

In geometry, the truncated order-6 square tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of t{4,6}.

Uniform colorings


The half symmetry [1+,6,4] = [(4,4,3)] can be shown with alternating two colors of octagons, with as Coxeter diagram .

Symmetry

Truncated order-6 square tiling with *443 symmetry mirror lines

The dual tiling represents the fundamental domains of the *443 orbifold symmetry. There are two reflective subgroup kaleidoscopic constructed from [(4,4,3)] by removing one or two of three mirrors. In these images fundamental domains are alternately colored black and cyan, and mirrors exist on the boundaries between colors.

A larger subgroup is constructed [(4,4,3*)], index 6, as (3*22) with gyration points removed, becomes (*222222).

The symmetry can be doubled as 642 symmetry by adding a mirror bisecting the fundamental domain.

From a Wythoff construction there are eight hyperbolic uniform tilings that can be based from the regular order-4 hexagonal tiling.

Drawing the tiles colored as red on the original faces, yellow at the original vertices, and blue along the original edges, there are 8 forms.

Uniform tetrahexagonal tilings
Symmetry: [6,4], (*642)
(with [6,6] (*662), [(4,3,3)] (*443) , [∞,3,∞] (*3222) index 2 subsymmetries)
(And [(∞,3,∞,3)] (*3232) index 4 subsymmetry)

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{6,4}t{6,4}r{6,4}t{4,6}{4,6}rr{6,4}tr{6,4}
Uniform duals
V64V4.12.12V(4.6)2V6.8.8V46V4.4.4.6V4.8.12
Alternations
[1+,6,4]
(*443)
[6+,4]
(6*2)
[6,1+,4]
(*3222)
[6,4+]
(4*3)
[6,4,1+]
(*662)
[(6,4,2+)]
(2*32)
[6,4]+
(642)

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h{6,4}s{6,4}hr{6,4}s{4,6}h{4,6}hrr{6,4}sr{6,4}

It can also be generated from the (4 4 3) hyperbolic tilings:

Uniform (4,4,3) tilings
Symmetry: [(4,4,3)] (*443)[(4,4,3)]+
(443)
[(4,4,3+)]
(3*22)
[(4,1+,4,3)]
(*3232)
h{6,4}
t0(4,4,3)
h2{6,4}
t0,1(4,4,3)
{4,6}1/2
t1(4,4,3)
h2{6,4}
t1,2(4,4,3)
h{6,4}
t2(4,4,3)
r{6,4}1/2
t0,2(4,4,3)
t{4,6}1/2
t0,1,2(4,4,3)
s{4,6}1/2
s(4,4,3)
hr{4,6}1/2
hr(4,3,4)
h{4,6}1/2
h(4,3,4)
q{4,6}
h1(4,3,4)
Uniform duals
V(3.4)4V3.8.4.8V(4.4)3V3.8.4.8V(3.4)4V4.6.4.6V6.8.8V3.3.3.4.3.4V(4.4.3)2V66V4.3.4.6.6
*n42 symmetry mutation of truncated tilings: n.8.8
Symmetry
*n42
[n,4]
SphericalEuclideanCompact hyperbolicParacompact
*242
[2,4]
*342
[3,4]
*442
[4,4]
*542
[5,4]
*642
[6,4]
*742
[7,4]
*842
[8,4]...
*∞42
[∞,4]
Truncated
figures
Config.2.8.83.8.84.8.85.8.86.8.87.8.88.8.8∞.8.8
n-kis
figures
Config.V2.8.8V3.8.8V4.8.8V5.8.8V6.8.8V7.8.8V8.8.8V∞.8.8
*n32 symmetry mutation of omnitruncated tilings: 6.8.2n
Sym.
*n43
[(n,4,3)]
SphericalCompact hyperbolicParaco.
*243
[4,3]
*343
[(3,4,3)]
*443
[(4,4,3)]
*543
[(5,4,3)]
*643
[(6,4,3)]
*743
[(7,4,3)]
*843
[(8,4,3)]
*∞43
[(∞,4,3)]
Figures
Config.4.8.66.8.68.8.610.8.612.8.614.8.616.8.6∞.8.6
Duals
Config.V4.8.6V6.8.6V8.8.6V10.8.6V12.8.6V14.8.6V16.8.6V6.8.∞

See also

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.