Snub heptaheptagonal tiling

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Snub heptaheptagonal tiling
Snub heptaheptagonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
Type Hyperbolic uniform tiling
Vertex configuration 3.3.7.3.7
Schläfli symbol sr{7,7}
Wythoff symbol | 7 7 2
Coxeter diagram CDel node h.pngCDel 7.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 7.pngCDel node h.png
CDel node h.pngCDel 7.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.png
Symmetry group [7,7]+, (772)
[7+,4], (7*2)
Dual Order-7-7 floret pentagonal tiling
Properties Vertex-transitive

In geometry, the snub heptaheptagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of sr{7,7}, constructed from two regular heptagons and three equilateral triangles around every vertex.

Images

Drawn in chiral pairs, with edges missing between black triangles:

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Symmetry

A double symmetry coloring can be constructed from [7,4] symmetry with only one color heptagon.

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Related tilings

See also

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)
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