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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • quasiregular polyhedra and tilings with vertex configurations (3.n)2, progressing from tilings of the sphere to the Euclidean plane and into the hyperbolic...
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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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  • meet. The classical convex polytopes may be considered tessellations, or tilings, of spherical space. Tessellations of euclidean and hyperbolic space...
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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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    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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    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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    Publications. Grünbaum, Branko; Shepard, Geoffrey (November 1977). "Tilings by Regular Polygons" (PDF). Mathematics Magazine. 50 (5). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.:...
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  • 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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    discovery of new mathematical tile", The Guardian Chavey, D. (1989), "Tilings by Regular Polygons—II: A Catalog of Tilings", Computers & Mathematics with...
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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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    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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    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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  • spline B-spline NURBS Parametric surface Convex hull construction Euclidean shortest path Point in polygon Point location Hidden line removal History...
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    may not be convex or even connected. In the usual Euclidean space, we can rewrite the formal definition in usual terms. Each Voronoi polygon R k {\textstyle...
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    polyhedra (equivalently, spherical tilings), the square and deltoidal trihexagonal tilings of the Euclidean plane, and some tilings of the hyperbolic plane are...
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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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