Infinite-order triangular tiling

Infinite-order triangular tiling

Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
TypeHyperbolic regular tiling
Vertex figure3
Schläfli symbol{3,}
Wythoff symbol | 3 2
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry group[,3], (*32)
DualOrder-3 apeirogonal tiling
PropertiesVertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive
The {3,3,} honeycomb has {3,} vertex figures.

In geometry, the infinite-order triangular tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane with a Schläfli symbol of {3,∞}. All vertices are ideal, located at "infinity" and seen on the boundary of the Poincaré hyperbolic disk projection.

Symmetry

A lower symmetry form has alternating colors, and represented by cyclic symbol {(3,∞,3)}, . The tiling also represents the fundamental domains of the * symmetry, which can be seen with 3 colors of lines representing 3 mirrors of the construction.


Alternated colored tiling

*∞∞∞ symmetry

Apollonian gasket with *∞∞∞ symmetry

Related polyhedra and tiling

This tiling is topologically related as part of a sequence of regular polyhedra with Schläfli symbol {3,p}.

*n32 symmetry mutation of regular tilings: 3n or {3,n}
Spherical Euclid. Compact hyper. Paraco. Noncompact hyperbolic
3.3 33 34 35 36 37 38 3 312i 39i 36i 33i

Other infinite-order triangular tilings

A nonregular infinite-order triangular tiling can be generated by a recursive process from a central triangle as shown here:

See also

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