Snub octaoctagonal tiling

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Snub octaoctagonal tiling
Snub octaoctagonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
Type Hyperbolic uniform tiling
Vertex configuration 3.3.8.3.8
Schläfli symbol s{8,4}
sr{8,8}
Wythoff symbol | 8 8 2
Coxeter diagram CDel node h.pngCDel 8.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.png
CDel node h.pngCDel 8.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 8.pngCDel node h.png
Symmetry group [8,8]+, (882)
[8+,4], (8*2)
Dual Order-8-8 floret hexagonal tiling
Properties Vertex-transitive

In geometry, the snub octaoctagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of sr{8,8}.

Images

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

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Symmetry

A higher symmetry coloring can be constructed from [8,4] symmetry as s{8,4}, CDel node h.pngCDel 8.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.png. In this construction there is only one color of octagon.

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Related polyhedra and tiling

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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