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    geometry, a glide reflection or transflection is a geometric transformation that consists of a reflection across a hyperplane and a translation ("glide") in...
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    Another transformation is a glide reflection, a combination of reflection and translation parallel to the line of reflection. Mathematically, a wallpaper...
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  • as length. There are four types: translations, rotations, reflections, and glide reflections (see below § Classification). The set of Euclidean plane isometries...
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    2\theta \,),(x\sin 2\theta -y\cos 2\theta \,)).} A glide reflection is the composition of a reflection across a line followed by a translation in the direction...
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    unchanged. In 2D, a glide reflection symmetry (also called a glide plane symmetry in 3D, and a transflection in general) means that a reflection in a line or...
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    groups with horizontal line reflection, glide reflection, or 180° rotation (groups 3–7), the position of the reflection axis or rotation point in the...
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  • Look up glide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glide may refer to: Gliding flight, to fly without thrust Glide API, a 3D graphics interface Glide OS, a...
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    to the plane, or a reflection with respect to a perpendicular plane glide reflection with respect to a plane, and a translation in that plane inversion...
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    bilaterally symmetric across the midline, or are offset from each other via glide reflection, or possibly both. Since the description of Dickinsonia costata in...
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  • reflection through a line (or plane) translation by a vector rotation of finite order around a point infinite rotation around a line in 3-space glide-reflection...
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    pattern repeats its configuration with a glide reflection symmetry. After four steps and two glide reflections, it returns to its original orientation...
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  • from a simple motif like a line segment by repeated application of a glide reflection. Although the origin of the word is unclear, its first printed appearances...
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    lack of known segmented legs or limbs, coupled with the presence of glide reflection instead of symmetric segments, suggests that an arthropod classification...
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    of glide-reflection), and is one of only 13 nonstandard surfaces. Again, this can be understood as the quotient of the hyperbolic plane by a glide reflection...
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  • operations, that is, by turning screw rotations into rotations, glide reflections into reflections and moving all symmetry elements into the origin. Each crystallographic...
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    represents a frondose rangeomorph, and its overall body plan shows glide reflection symmetry, which is typical of the clade. It is one of two described...
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    that some chordates do show glide reflection during developmental stages, like hemichordates, which show a glide reflection in their gill apparatus during...
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    emphasize that it includes orientation-reversing isometries (reflections, glide reflections and improper rotations), as long as those isometries map this...
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    the symmetry observed is not exactly bilaterian but appears to be a glide reflection, where opposite segments are shifted by half an interval. The genus...
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    to the right and left from a zig-zag medial suture (thus exhibiting glide reflection, or opposite isometry). The genus Charnia was named after Charnwood...
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    translation or a rotation. Any opposite isometry is either a reflection or a glide reflection. Coxeter 1969, p. 29 Coxeter 1969, p. 39 Beckman, F.S.; Quarles...
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    chiral shape. Indirect, or improper motions are motions like reflections, glide reflections and Improper rotations that invert the orientation of a chiral...
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    symmetry. Its symmetry group is a frieze group generated by a single glide reflection. In three dimensions, every figure that possesses a mirror plane of...
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    possesses deep, hook-shaped depressions that are arranged accordingly to glide reflection of bilateral symmetry. The 'shell' of Armillifera possess a lack of...
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    are indeed annual in nature.[citation needed] Some sea pens exhibit glide reflection symmetry, rare among extant animals. Sea pens are sometimes sold in...
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    group, given a reflection r, every rigid transformation that is not a rigid motion is the product of r and a rigid motion. A glide reflection is an example...
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    include glide reflection symmetry (a reflection followed by a translation) and rotoreflection symmetry (a combination of a rotation and a reflection). A dyadic...
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  • contrast, a translation moves every point, a reflection exchanges left- and right-handed ordering, a glide reflection does both, and an improper rotation combines...
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    each reflection in the group: since isometries are in the same coset regardless of translational components, a reflection and a glide reflection with...
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    which case it is necessarily either a reflection in a line or a glide-reflection (the product of three reflections in a line and two perpendiculars to it)...
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