Trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb

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Trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb
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Type Dual uniform honeycomb
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams CDel labelh.pngCDel node fh.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node fh.pngCDel labelh.png
Cell Oblate cubille cell.png
Trigonal trapezohedron
(1/4 of rhombic dodecahedron)
Faces Rhombus
Space group Fd3m (227)
Coxeter group ×2, [[3[4]]] (double)
vertex figures Tetrahedron.pngTriakis tetrahedron.png
CDel node fh.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.png | CDel node f1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node fh.png
Dual Quarter cubic honeycomb
Properties Cell-transitive, Face-transitive

The trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. Cells are identical trigonal trapezohedron or rhombohedra. Conway, Burgiel, and Goodman-Strauss call it an oblate cubille.[1]

Related honeycombs and tilings[]

This honeycomb can be seen as a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb, with the rhombic dodecahedra dissected with its center into 4 trigonal trapezohedra or rhombohedra.

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rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb
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Rhombic dodecahedra dissection
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Rhombic net

It is analogous to the regular hexagonal being dissectable into 3 rhombi and tiling the plane as a rhombille. The rhombille tiling is actually an orthogonal projection of the trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb. A different orthogonal projection produces the quadrille where the rhombi are distorted into squares.

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Dual tiling[]

It is dual to the quarter cubic honeycomb with tetrahedral and truncated tetrahedral cells:

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See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Conway, John H.; Burgiel, Heidi; Goodman-Strauss, Chaim (2008), The Symmetries of Things, Wellesley, Massachusetts: A K Peters, p. 294, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5, MR 2410150
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