Order-3-5 heptagonal honeycomb | |
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Type | Regular honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {7,3,5} |
Coxeter diagram | |
Cells | {7,3} |
Faces | Heptagon {7} |
Vertex figure | icosahedron {3,5} |
Dual | {5,3,7} |
Coxeter group | [7,3,5] |
Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-3-5 heptagonal honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of a heptagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
Geometry
editThe Schläfli symbol of the order-3-5 heptagonal honeycomb is {7,3,5}, with five heptagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is an icosahedron, {3,5}.
Poincaré disk model (vertex centered) |
Ideal surface |
Related polytopes and honeycombs
editIt is a part of a series of regular polytopes and honeycombs with {p,3,5} Schläfli symbol, and icosahedral vertex figures.
{p,3,5} polytopes | |||||||
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Space | S3 | H3 | |||||
Form | Finite | Compact | Paracompact | Noncompact | |||
Name | {3,3,5} |
{4,3,5} |
{5,3,5} |
{6,3,5} |
{7,3,5} |
{8,3,5} |
... {∞,3,5} |
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Cells | {3,3} |
{4,3} |
{5,3} |
{6,3} |
{7,3} |
{8,3} |
{∞,3} |
Order-3-5 octagonal honeycomb
editOrder-3-5 octagonal honeycomb | |
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Type | Regular honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {8,3,5} |
Coxeter diagram | |
Cells | {8,3} |
Faces | Octagon {8} |
Vertex figure | icosahedron {3,5} |
Dual | {5,3,8} |
Coxeter group | [8,3,5] |
Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-3-5 octagonal honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an octagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
The Schläfli symbol of the order 3-5 heptagonal honeycomb is {8,3,5}, with five octagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is an icosahedron, {3,5}.
Poincaré disk model (vertex centered) |
Order-3-5 apeirogonal honeycomb
editOrder-3-5 apeirogonal honeycomb | |
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Type | Regular honeycomb |
Schläfli symbol | {∞,3,5} |
Coxeter diagram | |
Cells | {∞,3} |
Faces | Apeirogon {∞} |
Vertex figure | icosahedron {3,5} |
Dual | {5,3,∞} |
Coxeter group | [∞,3,5] |
Properties | Regular |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-3-5 apeirogonal honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an order-3 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 order-3-5 apeirogonal honeycomb is {∞,3,5}, with five order-3 apeirogonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is an icosahedron, {3,5}.
Poincaré disk model (vertex centered) |
Ideal surface |
See also
editReferences
edit- 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
edit- 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]