Isohedral figure
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In geometry, a tessellation of dimension 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (a plane tiling) or higher, or a polytope of dimension 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (a polyhedron) or higher, is isohedral or face-transitive if all its faces are the same. More specifically, all faces must be not merely congruent but must be transitive, i.e. must lie within the same symmetry orbit. In other words, for any two faces Template:Mvar and Template:Mvar, there must be a symmetry of the entire figure by translations, rotations, and/or reflections that maps Template:Mvar onto Template:Mvar. For this reason, convex isohedral polyhedra are the shapes that will make fair dice.[1]
Isohedral polyhedra are called isohedra. They can be described by their face configuration. An isohedron has an even number of faces.
The dual of an isohedral polyhedron is vertex-transitive, i.e. isogonal. The Catalan solids, the bipyramids, and the trapezohedra are all isohedral. They are the duals of the (isogonal) Archimedean solids, prisms, and antiprisms, respectively. The Platonic solids, which are either self-dual or dual with another Platonic solid, are vertex-, edge-, and face-transitive (i.e. isogonal, isotoxal, and isohedral).
A form that is isohedral, has regular vertices, and is also edge-transitive (i.e. isotoxal) is said to be a quasiregular dual. Some theorists regard these figures as truly quasiregular because they share the same symmetries, but this is not generally accepted.
A polyhedron which is isohedral and isogonal is said to be noble.
Not all isozonohedra[2] are isohedral.[3] For example, a rhombic icosahedron is an isozonohedron but not an isohedron.[4]
Examples
| Convex | Concave | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Hexagonale bipiramide.png Hexagonal bipyramids, V4.4.6, are nonregular isohedral polyhedra. |
File:Tiling Dual Semiregular V3-3-4-3-4 Cairo Pentagonal.svg The Cairo pentagonal tiling, V3.3.4.3.4, is isohedral. |
File:Rhombic dodecahedra.png The rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb is isohedral (and isochoric, and space-filling). |
File:Capital I4 tiling-4color.svg A square tiling distorted into a spiraling H tiling (topologically equivalent) is still isohedral. |
Classes of isohedra by symmetry
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A polyhedron (or polytope in general) is k-isohedral if it contains k faces within its symmetry fundamental domains.[5] Similarly, a k-isohedral tiling has k separate symmetry orbits (it may contain m different face shapes, for m = k, or only for some m < k).[6] ("1-isohedral" is the same as "isohedral".)
A monohedral polyhedron or monohedral tiling (m = 1) has congruent faces, either directly or reflectively, which occur in one or more symmetry positions. An m-hedral polyhedron or tiling has m different face shapes ("dihedral", "trihedral"... are the same as "2-hedral", "3-hedral"... respectively).[7]
Here are some examples of k-isohedral polyhedra and tilings, with their faces colored by their k symmetry positions:
| 3-isohedral | 4-isohedral | isohedral | 2-isohedral |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-hedral regular-faced polyhedra | Monohedral polyhedra | ||
| File:Small rhombicuboctahedron.png | File:Johnson solid 37.png | File:Deltoidal icositetrahedron gyro.png | File:Pseudo-strombic icositetrahedron (2-isohedral).png |
| The rhombicuboctahedron has 1 triangle type and 2 square types. | The pseudo-rhombicuboctahedron has 1 triangle type and 3 square types. | The deltoidal icositetrahedron has 1 face type. | The pseudo-deltoidal icositetrahedron has 2 face types, with same shape. |
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| 2-isohedral | 4-isohedral | Isohedral | 3-isohedral |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-hedral regular-faced tilings | Monohedral tilings | ||
| File:Distorted truncated square tiling.png | File:3-uniform n57.png | File:Herringbone bond.svg | |
| The Pythagorean tiling has 2 square types (sizes). | This 3-uniform tiling has 3 triangle types, with same shape, and 1 square type. | The herringbone pattern has 1 rectangle type. | This pentagonal tiling has 3 irregular pentagon types, with same shape. |
Related terms
A cell-transitive or isochoric figure is an n-polytope (n ≥ 4) or n-honeycomb (n ≥ 3) that has its cells congruent and transitive with each others. In 3 dimensions, the catoptric honeycombs, duals to the uniform honeycombs, are isochoric. In 4 dimensions, isochoric polytopes have been enumerated up to 20 cells.[8]
A facet-transitive or isotopic figure is an n-dimensional polytope or honeycomb with its facets ((n−1)-faces) congruent and transitive. The dual of an isotope is an isogonal polytope. By definition, this isotopic property is common to the duals of the uniform polytopes.
- An isotopic 2-dimensional figure is isotoxal, i.e. edge-transitive.
- An isotopic 3-dimensional figure is isohedral, i.e. face-transitive.
- An isotopic 4-dimensional figure is isochoric, i.e. cell-transitive.
See also
References
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- ↑ Tilings and patterns, p. 20, 23.
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External links
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- isohedra 25 classes of isohedra with a finite number of sides
- Dice Design at The Dice Lab