Elongated triangular tiling

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Template:Uniform tiling stat table In geometry, the elongated triangular tiling is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are three triangles and two squares on each vertex. It is named as a triangular tiling elongated by rows of squares, and given Schläfli symbol {3,6}:e.

Conway calls it a isosnub quadrille.[1]

There are 3 regular and 8 semiregular tilings in the plane. This tiling is similar to the snub square tiling which also has 3 triangles and two squares on a vertex, but in a different order.

Construction

It is also the only convex uniform tiling that can not be created as a Wythoff construction. It can be constructed as alternate layers of apeirogonal prisms and apeirogonal antiprisms.

Uniform colorings

There is one uniform colorings of an elongated triangular tiling. Two 2-uniform colorings have a single vertex figure, 11123, with two colors of squares, but are not 1-uniform, repeated either by reflection or glide reflection, or in general each row of squares can be shifted around independently. The 2-uniform tilings are also called Archimedean colorings. There are infinite variations of these Archimedean colorings by arbitrary shifts in the square row colorings.

11122 (1-uniform) 11123 (2-uniform or 1-Archimedean)
File:Elongated triangular tiling 1.png File:Elongated triangular tiling 3.png File:Elongated triangular tiling 2.png
cmm (2*22) pmg (22*) pgg (22×)

Circle packing

The elongated triangular tiling can be used as a circle packing, placing equal diameter circles at the center of every point. Every circle is in contact with 5 other circles in the packing (kissing number).[2]

File:1-uniform-8-circlepack.svg

Related tilings

Sections of stacked triangles and squares can be combined into radial forms. This mixes two vertex configurations, 3.3.3.4.4 and 3.3.4.3.4 on the transitions. Twelve copies are needed to fill the plane with different center arrangements. The duals will mix in cairo pentagonal tiling pentagons.[3]

Example radial forms
Center Triangle Square Hexagon
Symmetry [3] [3]+ [2] [4]+ [6] [6]+
File:Tower elonaged triangular tiling.svg
Tower
File:Triangular radial elonaged triangular tiling.svg File:Triangle2 elongated triangular tiling.svg File:Square radial elongated triangular tiling.svg File:Square2 radial elongated triangular tiling.svg File:Point radial elongated triangular tiling.svg File:Spiral elongated triangular tiling.svg
File:Dual tower elongated triangular tiling.svg
Dual
File:Dual triangular radial elonaged triangular tiling.svg File:Dual triangle2 elongated triangular tiling.svg File:Dual square radial elongated triangular tiling.svg File:Dual square2 radial elongated triangular tiling.svg File:Dual point radial elongated triangular tiling.svg File:Dual spiral elongated triangular tiling.svg

Symmetry mutations

It is first in a series of symmetry mutations[4] with hyperbolic uniform tilings with 2*n2 orbifold notation symmetry, vertex figure 4.n.4.3.3.3, and Coxeter diagram Template:CDD. Their duals have hexagonal faces in the hyperbolic plane, with face configuration V4.n.4.3.3.3.

Symmetry mutation 2*n2 of uniform tilings: 4.n.4.3.3.3
4.2.4.3.3.3 4.3.4.3.3.3 4.4.4.3.3.3
2*22 2*32 2*42
File:Elongated triangular tiling 4.2.4.3.3.3.png File:Uniform tiling 4.3.4.3.3.3.png File:Hyper 4.4.4.3.3.3a.png
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There are four related 2-uniform tilings, mixing 2 or 3 rows of triangles or squares.[5][6]

Double elongated Triple elongated Half elongated One third elongated
File:2-uniform n4.svg File:2-uniform n3.svg File:2-uniform n14.svg File:2-uniform n15.svg

Prismatic pentagonal tiling

Template:Infobox face-uniform tiling The prismatic pentagonal tiling is a dual uniform tiling in the Euclidean plane. It is one of 15 known isohedral pentagon tilings. It can be seen as a stretched hexagonal tiling with a set of parallel bisecting lines through the hexagons.

Conway calls it an Template:Not a typo.[1] Each of its pentagonal faces has three 120° and two 90° angles.

It is related to the Cairo pentagonal tiling with face configuration V3.3.4.3.4.

Geometric variations

Monohedral pentagonal tiling type 6 has the same topology, but two edge lengths and a lower p2 (2222) wallpaper group symmetry:

File:P5-type6.png File:Prototile p5-type6.png
a=d=e, b=c
B+D=180°, 2B=E

Related 2-uniform dual tilings

There are four related 2-uniform dual tilings, mixing in rows of squares or hexagons (the prismatic pentagon is half-square half-hexagon).

Dual: Double Elongated Dual: Triple Elongated Dual: Half Elongated Dual: One-Third Elongated
File:2-uniform 4 dual.svg File:2-uniform 3 dual.svg File:2-uniform 14 dual.svg File:2-uniform 15 dual.svg
Dual: [44; 33.42]1 (t=2,e=4) Dual: [44; 33.42]2 (t=3,e=5) Dual: [36; 33.42]1 (t=3,e=4) Dual: [36; 33.42]2 (t=4,e=5)

See also

Notes

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References

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External links

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  1. a b Conway, 2008, p.288 table
  2. Order in Space: A design source book, Keith Critchlow, p.74-75, circle pattern F
  3. aperiodic tilings by towers Andrew Osborne 2018
  4. Two Dimensional symmetry Mutations by Daniel Huson
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