Truncated order-4 hexagonal tiling

In geometry, the truncated order-4 hexagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of t{6,4}. A secondary construction tr{6,6} is called a truncated hexahexagonal tiling with two colors of dodecagons.

Constructions There are two uniform constructions of this tiling, first from [6,4] kaleidoscope, and a lower symmetry by removing the last mirror, [6,4,1+], gives [6,6], (*662). + Two uniform constructions of 4.6.4.6NameTetrahexagonalTruncated hexahexagonalImageSymmetry[6,4](*642)[6,6] = [6,4,1+](*662) = Symbolt{6,4}tr{6,6}Coxeter diagram

Dual tiling The dual tiling, order-6 tetrakis square tiling has face configuration V4.12.12, and represents the fundamental domains of the [6,6] symmetry group.

Related polyhedra and tiling

Symmetry

The dual of the tiling represents the fundamental domains of (*662) orbifold symmetry. From [6,6] (*662) symmetry, there are 15 small index subgroup (12 unique) by mirror removal and alternation operators. Mirrors can be removed if its branch orders are all even, and cuts neighboring branch orders in half. Removing two mirrors leaves a half-order gyration point where the removed mirrors met. In these images fundamental domains are alternately colored black and white, and mirrors exist on the boundaries between colors. The subgroup index-8 group, [1+,6,1+,6,1+] (3333) is the commutator subgroup of [6,6].

Larger subgroup constructed as [6,6*], removing the gyration points of (6*3), index 12 becomes (*333333).

The symmetry can be doubled to 642 symmetry by adding a mirror to bisect the fundamental domain.

Small index subgroups of [6,6] (*662)Index124DiagramCoxeter[6,6][1+,6,6] = [6,6,1+] = [6,1+,6] = [1+,6,6,1+] = [6+,6+]Orbifold*662*663*3232*333333×Direct subgroupsDiagramCoxeter[6,6+][6+,6][(6,6,2+)][6,1+,6,1+] = = = = [1+,6,1+,6] = = = = Orbifold6*32*333*33Direct subgroupsIndex248DiagramCoxeter[6,6]+[6,6+]+ = [6+,6]+ = [6,1+,6]+ = [6+,6+]+ = [1+,6,1+,6]+ = = = Orbifold66266332323333Radical subgroupsIndex1224DiagramCoxeter[6,6*][6*,6][6,6*]+[6*,6]+Orbifold*333333333333

References John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations)

Truncated order-4 hexagonal tiling

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