Order-3-6 heptagonal honeycomb
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-3-6 heptagonal honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of a heptagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
| Order-3-6 heptagonal honeycomb | |
|---|---|
| Type | Regular honeycomb | 
| Schläfli symbol | {7,3,6} {7,3[3]} | 
| Coxeter diagram |               =      | 
| Cells | {7,3}  | 
| Faces | {7} | 
| Vertex figure | {3,6} | 
| Dual | {6,3,7} | 
| Coxeter group | [7,3,6] [7,3[3]] | 
| Properties | Regular | 
Geometry
    
The Schläfli symbol of the order-3-6 heptagonal honeycomb is {7,3,6}, with six heptagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is an triangular tiling, {3,6}.
It has a quasiregular construction, 



 , which can be seen as alternately colored cells.
, which can be seen as alternately colored cells.
|  Poincaré disk model |  Ideal surface | 
Related polytopes and honeycombs
    
It is a part of a series of regular polytopes and honeycombs with {p,3,6} Schläfli symbol, and triangular tiling vertex figures.
| Form | Paracompact | Noncompact | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | {3,3,6} {3,3[3]} | {4,3,6} {4,3[3]} | {5,3,6} {5,3[3]} | {6,3,6} {6,3[3]} | {7,3,6} {7,3[3]} | {8,3,6} {8,3[3]} | ... {∞,3,6} {∞,3[3]} | 
|             |             |             |             |             |             |             |             | 
| Image |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 
| Cells |  {3,3}      |  {4,3}      |  {5,3}      |  {6,3}      |  {7,3}      |  {8,3}      |  {∞,3}      | 
Order-3-6 octagonal honeycomb
    
| Order-3-6 octagonal honeycomb | |
|---|---|
| Type | Regular honeycomb | 
| Schläfli symbol | {8,3,6} {8,3[3]} | 
| Coxeter diagram |               =      | 
| Cells | {8,3}  | 
| Faces | Octagon {8} | 
| Vertex figure | triangular tiling {3,6} | 
| Dual | {6,3,8} | 
| Coxeter group | [8,3,6] [8,3[3]] | 
| Properties | Regular | 
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-3-6 octagonal honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an order-6 octagonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
The Schläfli symbol of the order-3-6 octagonal honeycomb is {8,3,6}, with six octagonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a triangular tiling, {3,6}.
It has a quasiregular construction, 



 , which can be seen as alternately colored cells.
, which can be seen as alternately colored cells.
|  Poincaré disk model | 
Order-3-6 apeirogonal honeycomb
    
| Order-3-6 apeirogonal honeycomb | |
|---|---|
| Type | Regular honeycomb | 
| Schläfli symbol | {∞,3,6} {∞,3[3]} | 
| Coxeter diagram |               =      | 
| Cells | {∞,3}  | 
| Faces | Apeirogon {∞} | 
| Vertex figure | triangular tiling {3,6} | 
| Dual | {6,3,∞} | 
| Coxeter group | [∞,3,6] [∞,3[3]] | 
| Properties | Regular | 
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-3-6 apeirogonal honeycomb a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb). Each infinite cell consists of an order-3 apeirogonal tiling whose vertices lie on a 2-hypercycle, each of which has a limiting circle on the ideal sphere.
The Schläfli symbol of the order-3-6 apeirogonal honeycomb is {∞,3,6}, with six order-3 apeirogonal tilings meeting at each edge. The vertex figure of this honeycomb is a triangular tiling, {3,6}.
|  Poincaré disk model |  Ideal surface | 
It has a quasiregular construction, 



 , which can be seen as alternately colored cells.
, which can be seen as alternately colored cells.
References
    
- Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. ISBN 0-486-61480-8. (Tables I and II: Regular polytopes and honeycombs, pp. 294–296)
- The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays (1999), Dover Publications, LCCN 99-35678, ISBN 0-486-40919-8 (Chapter 10, Regular Honeycombs in Hyperbolic Space) Table III
- Jeffrey R. Weeks The Shape of Space, 2nd edition ISBN 0-8247-0709-5 (Chapters 16–17: Geometries on Three-manifolds I,II)
- George Maxwell, Sphere Packings and Hyperbolic Reflection Groups, JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA 79,78-97 (1982)
- Hao Chen, Jean-Philippe Labbé, Lorentzian Coxeter groups and Boyd-Maxwell ball packings, (2013)
- Visualizing Hyperbolic Honeycombs arXiv:1511.02851 Roice Nelson, Henry Segerman (2015)
External links
    
- John Baez, Visual insights: {7,3,3} Honeycomb (2014/08/01) {7,3,3} Honeycomb Meets Plane at Infinity (2014/08/14)
- Danny Calegari, Kleinian, a tool for visualizing Kleinian groups, Geometry and the Imagination 4 March 2014.