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- Order-6-3 square honeycomb
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In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 square honeycomb or 4,3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3 honeycomb is a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of a hexagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
Geometry
The Schläfli symbol of the 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 square honeycomb is {4,3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3}, with three 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-4 hexagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a hexagonal tiling, {3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3}.
Related polytopes and honeycombs
It is a part of a series of regular polytopes and honeycombs with {p,3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3} Schläfli symbol, and dodecahedral vertex figures:
= 3/info/order" target="_blank">Order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 pentagonal honeycomb
=In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 pentagonal honeycomb or 5,3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3 honeycomb is a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6 pentagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
The Schläfli symbol of the 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 pentagonal honeycomb is {5,3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3}, with three 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6 pentagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a hexagonal tiling, {3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3}.
= 3/info/order" target="_blank">Order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 hexagonal honeycomb
=In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 hexagonal honeycomb or 3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3 honeycomb is a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6 hexagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
The Schläfli symbol of the 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 hexagonal honeycomb is {3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3}, with three 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-5 hexagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a hexagonal tiling, {3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3}.
= 3/info/order" target="_blank">Order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 apeirogonal honeycomb
=In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6-3 apeirogonal honeycomb or ∞,3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3 honeycomb is a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6 apeirogonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
The Schläfli symbol of the apeirogonal tiling honeycomb is {∞,3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3}, with three 3/info/order" target="_blank">order-3/info/6" target="_blank">6 apeirogonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a hexagonal tiling, {3/info/6" target="_blank">6,3}.
The "ideal surface" projection below is a plane-at-infinity, in the Poincaré half-space model of H3. It shows an Apollonian gasket pattern of circles inside a largest circle.
See also
Convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space
List of regular polytopes
References
Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. ISBN 0-486-61480-8. (Tables I and II: Regular polytopes and honeycombs, pp. 294–296)
The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays (1999), Dover Publications, LCCN 99-35678, ISBN 0-486-40919-8 (Chapter 10, Regular Honeycombs in Hyperbolic Space) Table III
Jeffrey R. Weeks The Shape of Space, 2nd edition ISBN 0-8247-0709-5 (Chapters 16–17: Geometries on Three-manifolds I, II)
George Maxwell, Sphere Packings and Hyperbolic Reflection Groups, JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA 79,78-97 (1982) [1]
Hao Chen, Jean-Philippe Labbé, Lorentzian Coxeter groups and Boyd-Maxwell ball packings, (2013)[2]
Visualizing Hyperbolic Honeycombs arXiv:1511.02851 Roice Nelson, Henry Segerman (2015)
External links
John Baez, Visual insights: {7,3,3} Honeycomb (2014/08/01) {7,3,3} Honeycomb Meets Plane at Infinity (2014/08/14)
Danny Calegari, Kleinian, a tool for visualizing Kleinian groups, Geometry and the Imagination 4 March 2014. [3]