Octagonal tiling

Summary

Octagonal tiling
Octagonal tiling
Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
Type Hyperbolic regular tiling
Vertex configuration 83
Schläfli symbol {8,3}
t{4,8}
Wythoff symbol 3 | 8 2
2 8 | 4
4 4 4 |
Coxeter diagram

Symmetry group [8,3], (*832)
[8,4], (*842)
[(4,4,4)], (*444)
Dual Order-8 triangular tiling
Properties Vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive

In geometry, the octagonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It is represented by Schläfli symbol of {8,3}, having three regular octagons around each vertex. It also has a construction as a truncated order-8 square tiling, t{4,8}.

Uniform colorings

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Like the hexagonal tiling of the Euclidean plane, there are 3 uniform colorings of this hyperbolic tiling. The dual tiling V8.8.8 represents the fundamental domains of [(4,4,4)] symmetry.

Regular Truncations
 
{8,3}
     
 
t{4,8}
     
 
t{4[3]}
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Dual tiling
 
{3,8}
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      =       =        

Regular maps

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The regular map {8,3}2,0 can be seen as a 6-coloring of the {8,3} hyperbolic tiling. Within the regular map, octagons of the same color are considered the same face shown in multiple locations. The 2,0 subscripts show the same color will repeat by moving 2 steps in a straight direction following opposite edges. This regular map also has a representation as a double covering of a cube, represented by Schläfli symbol {8/2,3}, with 6 octagonal faces, double wrapped {8/2}, with 24 edges, and 16 vertices. It was described by Branko Grünbaum in his 2003 paper Are Your Polyhedra the Same as My Polyhedra?[1]

 
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This tiling is topologically part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with Schläfli symbol {n,3}.

*n32 symmetry mutation of regular tilings: {n,3}
Spherical Euclidean Compact hyperb. Paraco. Noncompact hyperbolic
                       
{2,3} {3,3} {4,3} {5,3} {6,3} {7,3} {8,3} {∞,3} {12i,3} {9i,3} {6i,3} {3i,3}

And also is topologically part of sequence of regular tilings with Schläfli symbol {8,n}.

n82 symmetry mutations of regular tilings: 8n
Space Spherical Compact hyperbolic Paracompact
Tiling              
Config. 8.8 83 84 85 86 87 88 ...8

From a Wythoff construction there are ten hyperbolic uniform tilings that can be based from the regular octagonal tiling.

Drawing the tiles colored as red on the original faces, yellow at the original vertices, and blue along the original edges, there are 10 forms.

Uniform octagonal/triangular tilings
Symmetry: [8,3], (*832) [8,3]+
(832)
[1+,8,3]
(*443)
[8,3+]
(3*4)
{8,3} t{8,3} r{8,3} t{3,8} {3,8} rr{8,3}
s2{3,8}
tr{8,3} sr{8,3} h{8,3} h2{8,3} s{3,8}
                                                     
     
    
     
    
     
    
           
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Uniform duals
V83 V3.16.16 V3.8.3.8 V6.6.8 V38 V3.4.8.4 V4.6.16 V34.8 V(3.4)3 V8.6.6 V35.4
                                                                 
                     
Uniform octagonal/square tilings
[8,4], (*842)
(with [8,8] (*882), [(4,4,4)] (*444) , [∞,4,∞] (*4222) index 2 subsymmetries)
(And [(∞,4,∞,4)] (*4242) index 4 subsymmetry)
     
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{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)
     
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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
Uniform (4,4,4) tilings
Symmetry: [(4,4,4)], (*444) [(4,4,4)]+
(444)
[(1+,4,4,4)]
(*4242)
[(4+,4,4)]
(4*22)
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
     
                   
t0(4,4,4)
h{8,4}
t0,1(4,4,4)
h2{8,4}
t1(4,4,4)
{4,8}1/2
t1,2(4,4,4)
h2{8,4}
t2(4,4,4)
h{8,4}
t0,2(4,4,4)
r{4,8}1/2
t0,1,2(4,4,4)
t{4,8}1/2
s(4,4,4)
s{4,8}1/2
h(4,4,4)
h{4,8}1/2
hr(4,4,4)
hr{4,8}1/2
Uniform duals
                   
V(4.4)4 V4.8.4.8 V(4.4)4 V4.8.4.8 V(4.4)4 V4.8.4.8 V8.8.8 V3.4.3.4.3.4 V88 V(4,4)3

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Grünbaum, Branko (2003). "Are Your Polyhedra the Same as My Polyhedra?" (PDF). Discrete and Computational Geometry. 25: 461–488. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55566-4_21. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  • 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.
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  • 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