Euclidean plane tilings by convex regular polygons have been widely used since antiquity. The first systematic mathematical treatment was that of Kepler...
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sides have the same length). Regular polygons may be either convex or star. In the limit, a sequence of regular polygons with an increasing number of...
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table shows the 11 convex uniform tilings (regular and semiregular) of the Euclidean plane, and their dual tilings. There are three regular and eight semiregular...
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In geometry, a star polygon is a type of non-convex polygon. Regular star polygons have been studied in depth; while star polygons in general appear not...
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Tessellation (redirect from Euclidean tiling)
semiregular tilings with regular tiles of more than one shape and with every corner identically arranged. The patterns formed by periodic tilings can be categorized...
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gon. Polygons are primarily classified by the number of sides. Polygons may be characterized by their convexity or type of non-convexity: Convex: any...
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represented by Schläfli symbol {p}. Many sources only consider convex polygons, but star polygons, like the pentagram, when considered, can also be regular. They...
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the triangular tiling or triangular tessellation is one of the three regular tilings of the Euclidean plane, and is the only such tiling where the constituent...
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skew Petrie polygons. The usual five regular polyhedra can also be represented as spherical tilings (tilings of the sphere): For a regular polyhedron whose...
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ISBN 978-0-226-33242-0. Tilings and patterns, Sec. 9.3 Other Monohedral tilings by convex polygons Tilings and patterns, from list of 107 isohedral tilings, pp. 473–481...
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regular dodecagon, which is the largest regular polygon that can tessellate space alongside other regular polygons (see, Euclidean tilings by convex regular...
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Platonic solid (redirect from Convex regular polyhedron)
In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are...
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Square (redirect from Regular quadrilateral)
Tilings by Squares". Meeting Alhambra: ISAMA-BRIDGES Conference Proceedings. pp. 265–272. Nelsen, Roger B. (November 2003). "Paintings, plane tilings...
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Hexagon (redirect from Regular hexagon)
antiprism) have regular skew hexagons as petrie polygons. The regular skew hexagon is the Petrie polygon for these higher dimensional regular, uniform and...
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List of mathematical shapes (section Euclidean tilings)
meet. The classical convex polytopes may be considered tessellations, or tilings, of spherical space. Tessellations of euclidean and hyperbolic space...
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Polyhedron (redirect from Convex polyhedra)
defines a polyhedron as a union of convex polygons (its faces), arranged in space so that the intersection of any two polygons is a shared vertex or edge or...
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regular n-dimensional hypercubic honeycombs - {4,3,...,3,4}. These may be treated as infinite polytopes. Hyperbolic tilings and honeycombs (tilings {p...
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Digon (redirect from Regular digon)
Regular Polygons Archived 2015-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, Iowa State University. (retrieved 20 December 2015) Coxeter (1973), Chapter 1, Polygons and...
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Equilateral triangle (redirect from Regular Triangle)
Publications. Grünbaum, Branko; Shepard, Geoffrey (November 1977). "Tilings by Regular Polygons" (PDF). Mathematics Magazine. 50 (5). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.:...
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monohedral tilings it is denoted [3.6.3.6]. It is also one of 56 possible isohedral tilings by quadrilaterals, and one of only eight tilings of the plane...
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Octahedron (redirect from Order-4 triangular tiling)
is a cube. It can be formed as the convex hull of the six axis-parallel unit vectors in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It is one of the five Platonic...
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k-uniform tiling is a tiling of tilings of the plane by convex regular polygons, connected edge-to-edge, with k types of vertices. The 1-uniform tiling include...
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Isotoxal figure (redirect from Isotoxal polygon)
Face-transitive Cell-transitive Tilings and patterns, Branko Gruenbaum, G. C. Shephard, 1987, 2.5 Tilings using star polygons, pp. 82–85. "duality". maths...
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both the Euclidean plane and hyperbolic plane. Uniform tilings are related to the finite uniform polyhedra; these can be considered uniform tilings of the...
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figures. In 1926 John Flinders Petrie took the concept of a regular skew polygons, polygons whose vertices are not all in the same plane, and extended...
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Apeirogon (redirect from Regular apeirogons)
and is called the regular apeirogon as defined by H. S. M. Coxeter. A regular apeirogon can be defined as a partition of the Euclidean line E1 into infinitely...
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cross-polytope. The regular octahedron is one of the Platonic solids, a set of convex polyhedra whose faces are congruent regular polygons and the same number...
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factors. A tiling or honeycomb of 3-space is the division of three-dimensional Euclidean space into a repetitive grid of polyhedral cells. Such tilings or tessellations...
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to cover it entirely. Euclidean tilings by convex regular polygons – a problem of partitioning the entire plane to simple polygons such as rectangles. Squaring...
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Semiregular polytope (redirect from Semi-regular polytope)
identical meanings, because all uniform polygons must be regular. However, since not all uniform polyhedra are regular, the number of semiregular polytopes...
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