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Snub tetraoctagonal tiling

Snub tetraoctagonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
Type	Hyperbolic uniform tiling
Vertex configuration	3.3.4.3.8
Schläfli symbol	sr{8,4} or ${\displaystyle s{\begin{Bmatrix}8\\4\end{Bmatrix}}}$
Wythoff symbol	| 8 4 2
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry group	[8,4]+, (842)
Dual	Order-8-4 floret pentagonal tiling
Properties	Vertex-transitive Chiral

Ingeometry, the snub tetraoctagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of sr{8,4}.

Images[edit]

Drawn in chiral pairs, with edges missing between black triangles:

Related polyhedra and tiling[edit]

The snub tetraoctagonal tiling is seventh in a series of snub polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure 3.3.4.3.n.

4n2 symmetry mutations of snub tilings: 3.3.4.3.n v t e
Symmetry 4n2	Spherical		Euclidean	Compact hyperbolic				Paracomp.
	242	342	442	542	642	742	842	∞42
Snub figures
Config.	3.3.4.3.2	3.3.4.3.3	3.3.4.3.4	3.3.4.3.5	3.3.4.3.6	3.3.4.3.7	3.3.4.3.8	3.3.4.3.∞
Gyro figures
Config.	V3.3.4.3.2	V3.3.4.3.3	V3.3.4.3.4	V3.3.4.3.5	V3.3.4.3.6	V3.3.4.3.7	V3.3.4.3.8	V3.3.4.3.∞

Uniform octagonal/square tilings v t e
[8,4], (*842) (with [8,8] (*882), [(4,4,4)] (*444) , [∞,4,∞] (*4222) index 2 subsymmetries) (And [(∞,4,∞,4)] (*4242) index 4 subsymmetry)
= = =	=	= = =	=	= =	=
{8,4}	t{8,4}	r{8,4}	2t{8,4}=t{4,8}	2r{8,4}={4,8}	rr{8,4}	tr{8,4}
Uniform duals
V84	V4.16.16	V(4.8)2	V8.8.8	V48	V4.4.4.8	V4.8.16
Alternations
[1+,8,4] (*444)	[8+,4] (8*2)	[8,1+,4] (*4222)	[8,4+] (4*4)	[8,4,1+] (*882)	[(8,4,2+)] (2*42)	[8,4]+ (842)
=	=	=	=	=	=
h{8,4}	s{8,4}	hr{8,4}	s{4,8}	h{4,8}	hrr{8,4}	sr{8,4}
Alternation duals
V(4.4)4	V3.(3.8)2	V(4.4.4)2	V(3.4)3	V88	V4.44	V3.3.4.3.8

References[edit]

• John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations)
• "Chapter 10: Regular honeycombs in hyperbolic space". The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays. Dover Publications. 1999. ISBN 0-486-40919-8. LCCN 99035678.

See also[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Uniform tiling 3-3-4-3-8.

• Square tiling
• Tilings of regular polygons
• List of uniform planar tilings
• List of regular polytopes

External links[edit]

• Weisstein, Eric W. "Hyperbolic tiling". MathWorld.
• Weisstein, Eric W. "Poincaré hyperbolic disk". MathWorld.
• Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
• KaleidoTile 3: Educational software to create spherical, planar and hyperbolic tilings
• Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch