Snub order-8 triangular tiling

In geometry, the snub tritetratrigonal tiling or snub order-8 triangular tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbols of s{(3,4,3)} and s{3,8}.

Snub order-8 triangular tiling

Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
TypeHyperbolic uniform tiling
Vertex configuration3.3.3.3.3.4
Schläfli symbols{3,8}
s(4,3,3)
Wythoff symbol| 4 3 3
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry group[8,3+], (3*4)
[(4,3,3)]+, (433)
DualOrder-4-3-3 snub dual tiling
PropertiesVertex-transitive

Images

Drawn in chiral pairs:

Symmetry

The alternated construction from the truncated order-8 triangular tiling has 2 colors of triangles and achiral symmetry. It has Schläfli symbol of s{3,8}.

References

  • John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, 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

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