Order-4 heptagonal tiling

Order-4 heptagonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
Type	Hyperbolic regular tiling
Vertex figure	74
Schläfli symbol	{7,4} r{7,7}
Wythoff symbol	4 | 7 2 2 | 7 7
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry group	[7,4], (*742) [7,7], (*772)
Dual	Order-7 square tiling
Properties	Vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive

In geometry, the order-4 heptagonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of {7,4}.

Symmetry

This tiling represents a hyperbolic kaleidoscope of 7 mirrors meeting as edges of a regular heptagon. This symmetry by orbifold notation is called *2222222 with 7 order-2 mirror intersections. In Coxeter notation can be represented as [1⁺,7,1⁺,4], removing two of three mirrors (passing through the heptagon center) in the [7,4] symmetry.

The kaleidoscopic domains can be seen as bicolored heptagons, representing mirror images of the fundamental domain. This coloring represents the uniform tiling t₁{7,7} and as a quasiregular tiling is called a heptaheptagonal tiling.

Related polyhedra and tiling

Uniform heptagonal/square tilings
Symmetry: [7,4], (*742)							[7,4]+, (742)	[7+,4], (7*2)	[7,4,1+], (*772)
{7,4}	t{7,4}	r{7,4}	2t{7,4}=t{4,7}	2r{7,4}={4,7}	rr{7,4}	tr{7,4}	sr{7,4}	s{7,4}	h{4,7}
Uniform duals
V74	V4.14.14	V4.7.4.7	V7.8.8	V47	V4.4.7.4	V4.8.14	V3.3.4.3.7	V3.3.7.3.7	V77

Uniform heptaheptagonal tilings
Symmetry: [7,7], (*772)							[7,7]+, (772)
= =	= =	= =	= =	= =	= =	= =	= =
{7,7}	t{7,7}	r{7,7}	2t{7,7}=t{7,7}	2r{7,7}={7,7}	rr{7,7}	tr{7,7}	sr{7,7}
Uniform duals
V77	V7.14.14	V7.7.7.7	V7.14.14	V77	V4.7.4.7	V4.14.14	V3.3.7.3.7

This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular tilings with heptagonal faces, starting with the heptagonal tiling, with Schläfli symbol {6,n}, and Coxeter diagram , progressing to infinity.

{7,3}

{7,4}

{7,5}

{7,6}

{7,7}

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}
Spherical		Euclidean	Hyperbolic tilings
24	34	44	54	64	74	84	...∞4

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. 

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Order-4 heptagonal tiling.

• Square tiling
• Tilings of regular polygons
• List of uniform planar tilings
• List of regular polytopes

External links

• 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

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