Order-5 hexagonal tiling
| Order-5 hexagonal tiling | |
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 Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane | |
| Type | Hyperbolic regular tiling |
| Vertex configuration | 65 |
| Schläfli symbol | {6,5} |
| Wythoff symbol | 5 | 6 2 |
| Coxeter diagram |    
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| Symmetry group | [6,5], (*652) |
| Dual | Order-6 pentagonal tiling |
| Properties | Vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive |
In geometry, the order-5 hexagonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of {6,5}.
Related polyhedra and tiling
[edit]This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular tilings with order-5 vertices with Schläfli symbol {n,5}, and Coxeter diagram 
, progressing to infinity.
| Spherical | Hyperbolic tilings | |||||||
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 {2,5} 
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 {3,5} 
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 {4,5} 
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 {5,5}
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{6,5}
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 {7,5} 
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 {8,5} 
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... |  {∞,5} 
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This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular tilings with hexagonal faces, starting with the hexagonal tiling, with Schläfli symbol {6,n}, and Coxeter diagram , progressing to infinity.
| *n62 symmetry mutation of regular tilings: {6,n} | ||||||||
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 {6,2} |
 {6,3} |
 {6,4} |
{6,5} |
 {6,6} |
 {6,7} |
 {6,8} |
... |  {6,∞} |
| Uniform hexagonal/pentagonal tilings | |||||||||||
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| Symmetry: [6,5], (*652) | [6,5]+, (652) | [6,5+], (5*3) | [1+,6,5], (*553) | ||||||||
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| {6,5} | t{6,5} | r{6,5} | 2t{6,5}=t{5,6} | 2r{6,5}={5,6} | rr{6,5} | tr{6,5} | sr{6,5} | s{5,6} | h{6,5} | ||
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| V65 | V5.12.12 | V5.6.5.6 | V6.10.10 | V56 | V4.5.4.6 | V4.10.12 | V3.3.5.3.6 | V3.3.3.5.3.5 | V(3.5)5 | ||
References
[edit]- 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.
See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Order-5 hexagonal tiling.
External links
[edit]- Weisstein, Eric W. "Hyperbolic tiling". MathWorld.
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Poincaré hyperbolic disk". MathWorld.
- Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
- KaleidoTile 3: Educational software to create spherical, planar and hyperbolic tilings
- Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch
