Alternated octagonal tiling

Tritetragonal tiling

Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
TypeHyperbolic uniform tiling
Vertex configuration(3.4)3
Schläfli symbol{(4,3,3)}
s{(4,4,4)}
Wythoff symbol3 | 3 4
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry group[(4,3,3)], (*433)
[(4,4,4)]+, (444)
DualOrder-4-3-3_t0 dual tiling
PropertiesVertex-transitive

In geometry, the tritetragonal tiling or alternated octagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbols of {(4,3,3)} or h{8,3}.

Geometry

Although a sequence of edges seem to represent straight lines (projected into curves), careful attention will show they are not straight, as can be seen by looking at it from different projective centers.


Triangle-centered
hyperbolic straight edges

Edge-centered
projective straight edges

Point-centered
projective straight edges

Dual tiling

In art

Circle Limit III is a woodcut made in 1959 by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, in which "strings of fish shoot up like rockets from infinitely far away" and then "fall back again whence they came". White curves within the figure, through the middle of each line of fish, divide the plane into squares and triangles in the pattern of the tritetragonal tiling. However, in the tritetragonal tiling, the corresponding curves are chains of hyperbolic line segments, with a slight angle at each vertex, while in Escher's woodcut they appear to be smooth hypercycles.

Related polyhedra and tiling

See also

References

External links

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