Rhombitetrahexagonal tiling
In geometry, the rhombitetrahexagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of rr{6,4}. It can be seen as constructed as a rectified tetrahexagonal tiling, r{6,4}, as well as an expanded order-4 hexagonal tiling or expanded order-6 square tiling.
| Rhombitetrahexagonal tiling | |
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 Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane | |
| Type | Hyperbolic uniform tiling |
| Vertex configuration | 4.4.6.4 |
| Schläfli symbol | rr{6,4} or |
| Wythoff symbol | 6 2 |
| Coxeter diagram |      |
| Symmetry group | [6,4], (*642) |
| Dual | Deltoidal tetrahexagonal tiling |
| Properties | Vertex-transitive |
Constructions
There are two uniform constructions of this tiling, one from [6,4] or (*642) symmetry, and secondly removing the mirror middle, [6,1+,4], gives a rectangular fundamental domain [∞,3,∞], (*3222).
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| Symmetry | [6,4] (*642)    |
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| Schläfli symbol | rr{6,4} | t0,1,2,3{∞,3,∞} |
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There are 3 lower symmetry forms seen by including edge-colorings: sees the hexagons as truncated triangles, with two color edges, with [6,4+] (4*3) symmetry. sees the yellow squares as rectangles, with two color edges, with [6+,4] (6*2) symmetry. A final quarter symmetry combines these colorings, with [6+,4+] (32×) symmetry, with 2 and 3 fold gyration points and glide reflections.
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 [6,4], (*632) |
 [6,4+], (4*3) | ||||||||||
 [6+,4], (6*2) |
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This four color tiling is related to a semiregular infinite skew polyhedron with the same vertex figure in Euclidean 3-space with a prismatic honeycomb construction of 
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Symmetry
The dual tiling, called a deltoidal tetrahexagonal tiling, represents the fundamental domains of the *3222 orbifold, shown here from three different centers. Its fundamental domain is a Lambert quadrilateral, with 3 right angles. This symmetry can be seen from a [6,4], (*642) triangular symmetry with one mirror removed, constructed as [6,1+,4], (*3222). Removing half of the blue mirrors doubles the domain again into *3322 symmetry.
Related polyhedra and tiling
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*442 [4,4] |
*542 [5,4] |
*642 [6,4] |
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*842 [8,4] |
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| Config. | 3.4.4.4 | 4.4.4.4 | 5.4.4.4 | 6.4.4.4 | 7.4.4.4 | 8.4.4.4 | ∞.4.4.4 | ||||
| Rhombic figures config. |
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| Symmetry: [6,4], (*642) (with [6,6] (*662), [(4,3,3)] (*443) , [∞,3,∞] (*3222) index 2 subsymmetries) (And [(∞,3,∞,3)] (*3232) index 4 subsymmetry) | |||||||||||
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| {6,4} | t{6,4} | r{6,4} | t{4,6} | {4,6} | rr{6,4} | tr{6,4} | |||||
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| [1+,6,4] (*443) |
[6+,4] (6*2) |
[6,1+,4] (*3222) |
[6,4+] (4*3) |
[6,4,1+] (*662) |
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| h{6,4} | s{6,4} | hr{6,4} | s{4,6} | h{4,6} | hrr{6,4} | sr{6,4} | |||||
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See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Uniform tiling 4-4-4-6. |
- Square tiling
- Tilings of regular polygons
- List of uniform planar tilings
- List of regular polytopes
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.