Related Polyhedra and Tilings
A tiling with alternate large and small triangles is topologically identical to the trihexagonal tiling, but has a different symmetry group. The hexagons are distorted so 3 vertices are on the mid-edge of the larger triangles. As with the trihexagonal tiling, it has two uniform colorings:
The trihexagonal tiling is also one of eight uniform tilings that can be formed from the regular hexagonal tiling (or the dual triangular tiling) by a Wythoff construction. Drawing the tiles colored as red on the original faces, yellow at the original vertices, and blue along the original edges, there are 8 forms, 7 which are topologically distinct. (The truncated triangular tiling is topologically identical to the hexagonal tiling.)
| Symmetry:, (*632) | +, (632) | , (*333) | , (3*3) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {6,3} | t0,1{6,3} | t1{6,3} | t1,2{6,3} | t2{6,3} | t0,2{6,3} | t0,1,2{6,3} | s{6,3} | h{6,3} | h1,2{6,3} | |
| Uniform duals | ||||||||||
| V6.6.6 | V3.12.12 | V3.6.3.6 | V6.6.6 | V3.3.3.3.3.3 | V3.4.12.4 | V.4.6.12 | V3.3.3.3.6 | V3.3.3.3.3.3 | ||
| Wythoff | 3 | 3 3 | 3 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 3 | 3 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 3 | 3 3 | 3 | 3 3 3 | | | 3 3 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coxeter | ||||||||
| Image Vertex figure |
(3.3)3 |
3.6.3.6 |
(3.3)3 |
3.6.3.6 |
(3.3)3 |
3.6.3.6 |
6.6.6 |
3.3.3.3.3.3 |
The trihexagonal tiling forms the case k = 6 in a sequence of quasiregular polyhedra and tilings, each of which has a vertex figure with two k-gons and two triangles:
| Symmetry *n32 |
Spherical | Euclidean | Hyperbolic tiling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *332 Td |
*432 Oh |
*532 Ih |
*632 p6m |
*732 |
*832 |
*∞32 |
|
| Quasiregular figures configuration |
3.3.3.3 |
3.4.3.4 |
3.5.3.5 |
3.6.3.6 |
3.7.3.7 |
3.8.3.8 |
3.∞.3.∞ |
| Coxeter diagram | |||||||
| Dual (rhombic) figures configuration |
V3.3.3.3 |
V3.4.3.4 |
V3.5.3.5 |
V3.6.3.6 |
V3.7.3.7 |
V3.8.3.8 |
V3.∞.3.∞ |
| Coxeter diagram | |||||||
The subset of this sequence in which k is an even number has (*n33) reflectional symmetry.
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