Heptagrammic-order heptagonal tiling

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Heptagrammic-order heptagonal tiling
Heptagrammic-order heptagonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
Type Hyperbolic regular tiling
Vertex configuration 77/2
Schläfli symbol {7,7/2}
Wythoff symbol 7/2 | 7 2
Coxeter diagram CDel node 1.pngCDel 7.pngCDel node.pngCDel 7.pngCDel rat.pngCDel 2x.pngCDel node.png
Symmetry group [7,3], (*732)
Dual Order-7 heptagrammic tiling
Properties Vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive

In geometry, the heptagrammic-order heptagonal tiling is a regular star-tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of {7,7/2}. The vertex figure heptagrams are {7/2}, Obtuse heptagram.svg. The heptagonal faces overlap with density 3.

Related tilings[]

It has the same vertex arrangement as the regular order-7 triangular tiling, {3,7}. The full set of edges coincide with the edges of a heptakis heptagonal tiling.

Order-7 triangular tiling.svgHeptakis heptagonal tiling.svg

It is related to a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, the great dodecahedron, {5,5/2}, which is polyhedron and a density-3 regular star-tiling on the sphere (resembling a regular icosahedron in this state, similarly to this tessellation resembling the order-7 triangular tiling):

Great dodecahedron tiling.png

References[]

  • John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, 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.

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