Trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb | |
---|---|
Type | Dual uniform honeycomb |
Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams | |
Cell | Trigonal trapezohedron (1/4 of rhombic dodecahedron) |
Faces | Rhombus |
Space group | Fd3m (227) |
Coxeter group | ×2, 3[4] (double) |
vertex figures | | |
Dual | Quarter cubic honeycomb |
Properties | Cell-transitive, Face-transitive |
In geometry, the trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. Cells are identical trigonal trapezohedra or rhombohedra. Conway, Burgiel, and Goodman-Strauss call it an oblate cubille.[1]
Related honeycombs and tilings
editThis honeycomb can be seen as a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb, with the rhombic dodecahedra dissected with its center into 4 trigonal trapezohedra or rhombohedra.
rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb |
Rhombic dodecahedra dissection |
Rhombic net |
It is analogous to the regular hexagonal being dissectable into 3 rhombi and tiling the plane as a rhombille. The rhombille tiling is actually an orthogonal projection of the trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb. A different orthogonal projection produces the quadrille where the rhombi are distorted into squares.
Dual tiling
editIt is dual to the quarter cubic honeycomb with tetrahedral and truncated tetrahedral cells:
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Conway, John H.; Burgiel, Heidi; Goodman-Strauss, Chaim (2008), The Symmetries of Things, Wellesley, Massachusetts: A K Peters, p. 294, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5, MR 2410150