Order-4 pentagonal tiling
Order-4 pentagonal tiling | |
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![]() Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane | |
Type | Hyperbolic regular tiling |
Vertex configuration | 54 |
Schläfli symbol | {5,4} r{5,5} or |
Wythoff symbol | 4 | 5 2 2 | 5 5 |
Coxeter diagram | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Symmetry group | [5,4], (*542) [5,5], (*552) |
Dual | Order-5 square tiling |
Properties | Vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive |
In geometry, the order-4 pentagonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of {5,4}. It can also be called a pentapentagonal tiling in a bicolored quasiregular form.
Symmetry[edit]
This tiling represents a hyperbolic kaleidoscope of 5 mirrors meeting as edges of a regular pentagon. This symmetry by orbifold notation is called *22222 with 5 order-2 mirror intersections. In Coxeter notation can be represented as [5*,4], removing two of three mirrors (passing through the pentagon center) in the [5,4] symmetry.
The kaleidoscopic domains can be seen as bicolored pentagons, representing mirror images of the fundamental domain. This coloring represents the uniform tiling t1{5,5} and as a quasiregular tiling is called a pentapentagonal tiling.
Related polyhedra and tiling[edit]
Uniform pentagonal/square tilings |
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Uniform pentapentagonal tilings |
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This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with pentagonal faces, starting with the dodecahedron, with Schläfli symbol {5,n}, and Coxeter diagram , progressing to infinity.
{5,n} tilings |
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This tiling is also topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with four faces per vertex, starting with the octahedron, with Schläfli symbol {n,4}, and Coxeter diagram , with n progressing to infinity.
*n42 symmetry mutation of regular tilings: {n,4} |
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This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure (4n).
*n42 symmetry mutation of regular tilings: {4,n} |
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*5n2 symmetry mutations of quasiregular tilings: (5.n)2 |
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References[edit]
- John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations)
- Coxeter, H. S. M. (1999), Chapter 10: Regular honeycombs in hyperbolic space (PDF), The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-40919-8, LCCN 99035678, invited lecture, ICM, Amsterdam, 1954.
See also[edit]

External links[edit]
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Hyperbolic tiling". MathWorld.
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Poincaré hyperbolic disk". MathWorld.
- Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
- KaleidoTile 3: Educational software to create spherical, planar and hyperbolic tilings
- Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch