geometry, an affine-regular polygon or affinely regular polygon is a polygon that is related to a regular polygon by an affine transformation. Affine transformations...
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Geodesic (redirect from Affine parameter)
having vanishing geodesic curvature. More generally, in the presence of an affine connection, a geodesic is defined to be a curve whose tangent vectors remain...
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Midpoint (category Affine geometry)
unlike in the affine case, the midpoint between two points may not be uniquely determined. Center (geometry) § Projective conics Midpoint polygon Bisection...
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Complex polytope (redirect from Van Oss polygon)
fully, say that a collection P of affine subspaces (or flats) of a complex unitary space V of dimension n is a regular complex polytope if it meets the...
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Polytope (section Regular polytopes)
an n-dimensional polytope or n-polytope. For example, a two-dimensional polygon is a 2-polytope and a three-dimensional polyhedron is a 3-polytope. In...
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area as a given polygon, and regular polygons of 3, 4, or 5 sides: p. xi (or one with twice the number of sides of a given polygon: pp. 49–50 ). But...
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Square (redirect from Regular quadrilateral)
(1980). "Napoleon's theorem and the parallelogram inequality for affine-regular polygons". The American Mathematical Monthly. 87 (8): 644–648. doi:10.1080/00029890...
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vertices on the surface of a cylinder. Regular infinite skew polygons exist in the Petrie polygons of the affine and hyperbolic Coxeter groups. They are...
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Simplex (redirect from Affine simplex)
the k + 1 points u 0 , … , u k {\displaystyle u_{0},\dots ,u_{k}} are affinely independent, which means that the k vectors u 1 − u 0 , … , u k − u 0 {\displaystyle...
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In mathematics, a fundamental polygon can be defined for every compact Riemann surface of genus greater than 0. It encodes not only information about...
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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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Similarity (geometry) (redirect from Similar polygons)
condition for similarity of polygons is that corresponding sides and diagonals are proportional. For given n, all regular n-gons are similar. Several...
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Area of a circle (section Using polygons)
circle as the limit of a sequence of regular polygons with an increasing number of sides. The area of a regular polygon is half its perimeter multiplied by...
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Coxeter group (redirect from Affine Weyl group)
of regular polygons, form the series I2(p), for p ≥ 3. In three dimensions, the symmetry group of the regular dodecahedron and its dual, the regular icosahedron...
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Algebraic geometry (section Affine varieties)
(or regular) does not depend on the choice of a coordinate system in An. When a coordinate system is chosen, the regular functions on the affine n-space...
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Convex hull (redirect from Minimum convex polygon)
For instance: The affine hull is the smallest affine subspace of a Euclidean space containing a given set, or the union of all affine combinations of points...
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Net (polyhedron) (redirect from Polygon folding)
a net of a polyhedron is an arrangement of non-overlapping edge-joined polygons in the plane which can be folded (along edges) to become the faces of the...
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Geometry is one of the oldest mathematical sciences. Absolute geometry Affine geometry Algebraic geometry Analytic geometry Birational geometry Complex...
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include: Circle, Square, Triangle, Rectangle, Oval, Star (polygon), Rhombus, Semicircle. Regular polygons starting at pentagon follow the naming convention of...
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Cube (redirect from Regular hexahedron)
as one of the five Platonic solids, a polyhedron in which all the regular polygons are congruent and the same number of faces meet at each vertex. Every...
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Equidissection (redirect from Spectrum of a polygon)
be easily generalized. All results stated for a regular polygon also hold for affine-regular polygons; in particular, results concerning the unit square...
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full circle (360°), then the result is the helical equivalent of a regular polygon. This case is called n-fold helical symmetry, where n = 360° (such...
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hyperbolic if it is neither of finite nor affine type, but every proper connected subdiagram is of finite or affine type. A hyperbolic Coxeter group is compact...
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Polyhedron (redirect from Null polygon)
ἕδρον (-hedron) 'base, seat') is a three-dimensional figure with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices. The term "polyhedron"...
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n-dimensional affine subspace. It is homogeneous. An affine space need not be included into a linear space, but is isomorphic to an affine subspace of a...
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Three-dimensional space (section Affine description)
space as a three-dimensional affine space E ( 3 ) {\displaystyle E(3)} over the real numbers. This is unique up to affine isomorphism. It is sometimes...
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Buekenhout geometry Coxeter group (B, N) pair Affine Hecke algebra Bruhat decomposition Generalized polygon Mostow rigidity Coxeter complex Weyl distance...
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numbers are required to determine the position of each point. It is an affine space, which includes in particular the concept of parallel lines. It has...
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Concurrent lines (section Regular polygons)
and their common intersection is called the vertex of the pencil. In any affine space (including a Euclidean space) the set of lines parallel to a given...
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polytopes) a stronger definition is used: only the regular polygons are considered as uniform, disallowing polygons that alternate between two different lengths...
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