Alternated order-4 hexagonal tiling
| Alternated order-4 hexagonal tiling | |
|---|---|
|  Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane | |
| Type | Hyperbolic uniform tiling | 
| Vertex configuration | (3.4)4 | 
| Schläfli symbol | h{6,4} or (3,4,4) | 
| Wythoff symbol | 4 | 3 4 | 
| Coxeter diagram |    or       | 
| Symmetry group | [(4,4,3)], (*443) | 
| Dual | Order-4-4-3_t0 dual tiling | 
| Properties | Vertex-transitive | 
In geometry, the alternated order-4 hexagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of (3,4,4), h{6,4}, and hr{6,6}.
Uniform constructions
There are four uniform constructions, with some of lower ones which can be seen with two colors of triangles:
| *443 | 3333 | *3232 | 3*22 | 
|---|---|---|---|
|      =     |      =     |      =    =     |      =     | 
|   |   | ||
| (4,4,3) = h{6,4} | hr{6,6} = h{6,4}1⁄2 | ||
Related polyhedra and tiling
| Uniform tetrahexagonal tilings | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symmetry: [6,4], (*642) (with [6,6] (*662), [(4,3,3)] (*443) , [∞,3,∞] (*3222) index 2 subsymmetries) (And [(∞,3,∞,3)] (*3232) index 4 subsymmetry) | |||||||||||
|      =     =    =     |      =     |      =    =     =     |       =     |       =    =    =       |        =     |       | |||||
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   | |||||
| {6,4} | t{6,4} | r{6,4} | t{4,6} | {4,6} | rr{6,4} | tr{6,4} | |||||
| Uniform duals | |||||||||||
|       |       |       |       |       |       |       | |||||
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   | |||||
| V64 | V4.12.12 | V(4.6)2 | V6.8.8 | V46 | V4.4.4.6 | V4.8.12 | |||||
| Alternations | |||||||||||
| [1+,6,4] (*443) | [6+,4] (6*2) | [6,1+,4] (*3222) | [6,4+] (4*3) | [6,4,1+] (*662) | [(6,4,2+)] (2*32) | [6,4]+ (642) | |||||
|      =     |      =      |      =     |      =     |      =     |      =      |       | |||||
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   | |||||
| s{6,4} | hr{6,4} | s{4,6} | h{4,6} | hrr{6,4} | sr{6,4} | ||||||
| Uniform hexahexagonal tilings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symmetry: [6,6], (*662) | ||||||
|      =    =       |      =    =       |      =    =       |      =    =       |      =    =       |      =    =       |      =    =       | 
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 
| {6,6} = h{4,6} | t{6,6} = h2{4,6} | r{6,6} {6,4} | t{6,6} = h2{4,6} | {6,6} = h{4,6} | rr{6,6} r{6,4} | tr{6,6} t{6,4} | 
| Uniform duals | ||||||
|       |       |       |       |       |       |       | 
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 
| V66 | V6.12.12 | V6.6.6.6 | V6.12.12 | V66 | V4.6.4.6 | V4.12.12 | 
| Alternations | ||||||
| [1+,6,6] (*663) | [6+,6] (6*3) | [6,1+,6] (*3232) | [6,6+] (6*3) | [6,6,1+] (*663) | [(6,6,2+)] (2*33) | [6,6]+ (662) | 
|      =     |       |      =     |       |      =     |       |       | 
|       |       |       |       |       |       |       | 
|   |   |   |   |   | ||
| h{6,6} | s{6,6} | hr{6,6} | s{6,6} | h{6,6} | hrr{6,6} | sr{6,6} | 
| Uniform (4,4,3) tilings | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symmetry: [(4,4,3)] (*443) | [(4,4,3)]+ (443) | [(4,4,3+)] (3*22) | [(4,1+,4,3)] (*3232) | |||||||
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | 
|       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       | 
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 
| t0(4,4,3) | h2{6,4} t0,1(4,4,3) | {4,6}1/2 t1(4,4,3) | h2{6,4} t1,2(4,4,3) | h{6,4} t2(4,4,3) | r{6,4}1/2 t0,2(4,4,3) | t{4,6}1/2 t0,1,2(4,4,3) | s{4,6}1/2 s(4,4,3) | hr{4,6}1/2 hr(4,3,4) | h{4,6}1/2 h(4,3,4) | q{4,6} h1(4,3,4) | 
| Uniform duals | ||||||||||
|   |   |   |   | |||||||
| V(3.4)4 | V3.8.4.8 | V(4.4)3 | V3.8.4.8 | V(3.4)4 | V4.6.4.6 | V6.8.8 | V3.3.3.4.3.4 | V(4.4.3)2 | V66 | V4.3.4.6.6 | 
| Similar H2 tilings in *3232 symmetry | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coxeter diagrams |       |       |       |       | ||||
|     |     |    |      |    |     |     |      | |
|     |     |     |     | |||||
| Vertex figure | 66 | 3.4.6.6.4 | 6.4.6.4 | |||||
| Image |   |   |   |   | ||||
| Dual |   |   | ||||||
See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Uniform tiling 3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4.
References
- 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.
External links
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Hyperbolic tiling". MathWorld.
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Poincaré hyperbolic disk". MathWorld.
- Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery Archived 2013-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
- KaleidoTile 3: Educational software to create spherical, planar and hyperbolic tilings
- Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch

