In geometry, a planigon is a convex polygon that can fill the plane with only copies of itself (isotopic to the fundamental units of monohedral tessellations). In the Euclidean plane there are 3 regular planigons; equilateral triangle, squares, and regular hexagons; and 8 semiregular planigons; and 4 demiregular planigons which can tile the plane only with other planigons.
All angles of a planigon are whole divisors of 360°. Tilings are made by edge-to-edge connections by perpendicular bisectors of the edges of the original uniform lattice, or centroids along common edges (they coincide).
Tilings made from planigons can be seen as dual tilings to the regular, semiregular, and demiregular tilings of the plane by regular polygons.
In the 1987 book, Tilings and patterns, Branko Grünbaum calls the vertex-uniform tilings Archimedean in parallel to the Archimedean solids. Their dual tilings are called Laves tilings in honor of crystallographer Fritz Laves.[1] [2] They're also called Shubnikov–Laves tilings after Shubnikov, Alekseĭ Vasilʹevich.[3] John Conway calls the uniform duals Catalan tilings, in parallel to the Catalan solid polyhedra.
The Laves tilings have vertices at the centers of the regular polygons, and edges connecting centers of regular polygons that share an edge. The tiles of the Laves tilings are called planigons. This includes the 3 regular tiles (triangle, square and hexagon) and 8 irregular ones. Each vertex has edges evenly spaced around it. Three dimensional analogues of the planigons are called stereohedrons.
These tilings are listed by their face configuration, the number of faces at each vertex of a face. For example V4.8.8 (or V4.82) means isosceles triangle tiles with one corner with four triangles, and two corners containing eight triangles.
The Conway operation of dual interchanges faces and vertices. In Archimedean solids and k-uniform tilings alike, the new vertex coincides with the center of each regular face, or the centroid. In the Euclidean (plane) case; in order to make new faces around each original vertex, the centroids must be connected by new edges, each of which must intersect exactly one of the original edges. Since regular polygons have dihedral symmetry, we see that these new centroid-centroid edges must be perpendicular bisectors of the common original edges (e.g. the centroid lies on all edge perpendicular bisectors of a regular polygon). Thus, the edges of k-dual uniform tilings coincide with centroid-to-edge-midpoint line segments of all regular polygons in the k-uniform tilings.
All 14 uniform usable regular vertex planigons also hail[4] from the 6-5 dodecagram (where each segment subtends
5\pi/6
The incircle of this dodecagram demonstrates that all the 14 VRPs are cocyclic, as alternatively shown by circle packings. The ratio of the incircle to the circumcircle is:
| \sin | \pi |
| 12 |
=\sin15\circ=
| \sqrt{6 | |
| -\sqrt{2}}{4} ≈ |
0.258819
and the convex hull is precisely the regular dodecagons in the k-uniform tiling. The equilateral triangle, square, regular hexagon, and regular dodecagon; are shown above with the VRPs.
In fact, any group of planigons can be constructed from the edges of a
2k-(k-1)
k=\gcd(n1,...,nm)
ni
| 1 | \csc | |
| 2 |
| \pi | |
| ni |
ni
2\pi/ni
2k-(k-1)
1/2
In Tilings and Patterns, Grünbaum also constructed the Laves tilings using monohedral tiles with regular vertices. A vertex is regular if all angles emanating from it are equal. In other words:
In this way, all Laves tilings are unique except for the square tiling (1 degree of freedom), barn pentagonal tiling (1 degree of freedom), and hexagonal tiling (2 degrees of freedom):
When applied to higher dual co-uniform tilings, all dual coregular planigons can be distorted except for the triangles (AAA similarity), with examples below:For edge-to-edge Euclidean tilings, the interior angles of the convex polygons meeting at a vertex must add to 360 degrees. A regular -gon has internal angle
| \left(1- | 2 |
| n |
\right)180\circ
In fact, with the vertex (interior) angles
60\circ,90\circ,108\circ,120
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\circ,135\circ,140\circ,144
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\circ,150\circ,...
d
d-1
180\circ
360\circ
60\circ,90\circ,108\circ,120
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\circ,135\circ,140\circ,144\circ,147
| 3 | |
| 11 |
\circ,150\circ,...
60\circ-60\circ-60\circ-60\circ-60\circ-60\circ~( x 1) | 60\circ-60\circ-60\circ-90\circ-90\circ~( x 2) | 60\circ-60\circ-90\circ-150\circ~( x 2) | 60\circ-128
\circ-171
\circ~( x 1) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
60\circ-60\circ-60\circ-60\circ-120\circ~( x 1) | 60\circ-60\circ-120\circ-120\circ~( x 2) | 60\circ-135\circ-165\circ~( x 1) | |||||||
60\circ-90\circ-90\circ-120\circ~( x 2) | 60\circ-140\circ-160\circ~( x 1) | ||||||||
90\circ-90\circ-90\circ-90\circ~( x 1) | 60\circ-144\circ-156~( x 1) | ||||||||
60\circ-150\circ-150\circ~( x 1) | |||||||||
90\circ-108\circ-162\circ~( x 1) | |||||||||
90\circ-120\circ-150\circ~( x 1) | |||||||||
90\circ-135\circ-135\circ~( x 1) | |||||||||
108\circ-108\circ-144\circ~( x 1) | |||||||||
120\circ-120\circ-120\circ~( x 1) |
90\circ-135\circ-135\circ~( x 1)
The solution to Challenge Problem 9.46, Geometry (Rusczyk),[5] is in the Degree 3 Vertex column above. A triangle with a hendecagon (11-gon) yields a 13.2-gon, a square with a heptagon (7-gon) yields a 9.3333-gon, and a pentagon with a hexagon yields a 7.5-gon). Hence there are
1(1)+(1(2)+1)+(3(2)+1)+10=21
Only eleven of these angle combinations can occur in a Laves Tiling of planigons.
In particular, if three polygons meet at a vertex and one has an odd number of sides, the other two polygons must be the same. If they are not, they would have to alternate around the first polygon, which is impossible if its number of sides is odd. By that restriction these six cannot appear in any tiling of regular polygons:On the other hand, these four can be used in k-dual-uniform tilings:
Finally, assuming unit side length, all regular polygons and usable planigons have side-lengths and areas as shown below in the table:
| Regular Polygons | Planigons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triangle | Area:
| V3.122 (O) | Area:
| V32.62 (I) | Area:
| V44 (s) | Area: 1Side Lengths: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Square | Area: 1Side Lengths: 1 | V4.6.12 (3) | Area:
| V(3.6)2 (R) | Area:
| V32.4.3.4 (C) | Area:
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| Hexagon | Area:
| V32.4.12 (S) | Area:
| V3.42.6 (r) | Area:
| V33.42 (B) | Area:
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| Octagon | Area: 2+2\sqrt{2} | V3.4.3.12 (T) | Area:
| V3.4.6.4 (D) | Area:
| V36 (H) | Area:
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| Dodecagon | Area: 6+3\sqrt{3} | V63 (E) | Area:
\sqrt{3} | V34.6 (F) | Area:
| V4.82 (i) | Area:
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Every dual uniform tiling is in a 1:1 correspondence with the corresponding uniform tiling, by construction of the planigons above and superimposition.
| m-Catalaves | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| k-dual-uniform | 1 | 11 | 11 | |||||
| 2 | 0 | 20 | 20 | |||||
| 3 | 0 | 22 | 39 | 61 | ||||
| 4 | 0 | 33 | 85 | 33 | 151 | |||
| 5 | 0 | 74 | 149 | 94 | 15 | 332 | ||
| 6 | 0 | 100 | 284 | 187 | 92 | 10 | 673 | |
| Total | 11 | ∞ | ∞ | ∞ | ∞ | ∞ | ∞ | |
k-dual-uniform tilings with the same vertex faces can be further identified by their wallpaper group symmetry, which is identical to that of the corresponding k-uniform tiling.
1-dual-uniform tilings include 3 regular tilings, and 8 Laves tilings, with 2 or more types of regular degree vertices. There are 20 2-dual-uniform tilings, 61 3-dual-uniform tilings, 151 4-dual-uniform tilings, 332 5-dual-uniform tilings and 673 6--dualuniform tilings. Each can be grouped by the number m of distinct vertex figures, which are also called m-Archimedean tilings.[6]
Finally, if the number of types of planigons is the same as the uniformity (m = k below), then the tiling is said to be dual Krotenheerdt. In general, the uniformity is greater than or equal to the number of types of vertices (m ≥ k), as different types of planigons necessarily have different orbits, but not vice versa. Setting m = n = k, there are 11 such dual tilings for n = 1; 20 such dual tilings for n = 2; 39 such dual tilings for n = 3; 33 such dual tilings for n = 4; 15 such dual tilings for n = 5; 10 such dual tilings for n = 6; and 7 such dual tilings for n = 7.
The 3 regular and 8 semiregular Laves tilings are shown, with planigons colored according to area as in the construction:
There are 20 tilings made from 2 types of planigons, the dual of 2-uniform tilings (Krotenheerdt Duals):
There are 39 tilings made from 3 types of planigons (Krotenheerdt Duals):
There are 33 tilings made from 4 types of planigons (Krotenheerdt Duals):
There are 15 5-uniform dual tilings with 5 unique planigons:
There are 10 6-uniform dual tilings with 6 unique planigons:
There are 7 7-uniform dual tilings with 7 unique planigons:
The last two dual uniform-7 tilings have the same vertex types, even though they look nothing alike!
From
n\ge8
There are many ways of generating new k-dual-uniform tilings from other k-uniform tilings. Three ways is to scale by
1+\sqrt{3},2+\sqrt{3},3+\sqrt{3}
To enlarge the planigons V32.4.12 and V3.4.3.12 using the truncated trihexagonal method, a scale factor of
2(3+\sqrt{3})
By two 9-uniform tilings in a big fractalization is achieved by a scale factor of 3 in all planigons. In the case of s,C,B,H its own planigon is in the exact center:
The two 9-uniform tilings are shown below, fractalizations of the demiregulars DC and DB, and a general example on S2TC:
Dual co-uniform tilings (red) along with the originals (blue) of selected tilings.[8] Generated by centroid-edge midpoint construction by polygon-centroid-vertex detection, rounding the angle of each co-edge to the nearest 15 degrees. Since the unit size of tilings varies from 15 to 18 pixels and every regular polygon slightly differs, there is some overlap or breaks of dual edges (an 18-pixel size generator incorrectly generates co-edges from five 15-pixel size tilings, classifying some squares as triangles).
Other edge-edge construction comparisons. Rotates every 3 seconds.
Below are affine linear expansions of other uniform tilings, from the original to the dual and back:
The first 12-uniform tiling contains all planigons with three types of vertices, and the second 12-uniform tiling contains all types of edges.If
a
b
a
b
Each uniform tiling corresponds to a circle packing, in which circles of diameter 1 are placed at all vertex points, corresponding to the planigons. Below are the circle packings of the Optimized Tilings and all-edge tiling:
A slideshow of all 94 5-dual-uniform tilings with 4 distinct planigons. Changes every 6 seconds, cycles every 60 seconds.
All tilings with regular dodecagons in are shown below, alternating between uniform and dual co-uniform every 5 seconds:
A comparison of 65 k uniform tilings in uniform planar tilings and their dual uniform tilings. The two lower rows coincide and are to scale: