Snub octaoctagonal tiling explained

In geometry, the snub octaoctagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of sr.

Images

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

Symmetry

A higher symmetry coloring can be constructed from [8,4] symmetry as s, . In this construction there is only one color of octagon.

References

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

See also

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

External links

• • • Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
• KaleidoTile 3: Educational software to create spherical, planar and hyperbolic tilings
• Hyperbolic Planar Tessellations, Don Hatch