Uniform tilingIn geometry, a uniform tiling is a tessellation of the plane by regular polygon faces with the restriction of being vertex-transitive. Uniform tilings can exist in both the Euclidean plane and hyperbolic plane. Uniform tilings are related to the finite uniform polyhedra which can be considered uniform tilings of the sphere. Most uniform tilings can be made from a Wythoff construction starting with a symmetry group and a singular generator point inside of the fundamental domain.
IcosaèdreEn géométrie, un icosaèdre est un solide de dimension 3, de la famille des polyèdres, contenant exactement vingt faces. Le préfixe icosa-, d'origine grecque, signifie « vingt ». Il existe de nombreux polyèdres à vingt faces tels l'icosaèdre régulier convexe (appelé plus simplement icosaèdre si le contexte fait référence aux solides de Platon), l'icosaèdre rhombique, le pseudo-icosaèdre, le grand icosaèdre ou plusieurs solides de Johnson.
Complex polytopeIn geometry, a complex polytope is a generalization of a polytope in real space to an analogous structure in a complex Hilbert space, where each real dimension is accompanied by an imaginary one. A complex polytope may be understood as a collection of complex points, lines, planes, and so on, where every point is the junction of multiple lines, every line of multiple planes, and so on. Precise definitions exist only for the regular complex polytopes, which are configurations.
Pavage hexagonalLe pavage hexagonal est, en géométrie, un pavage du plan euclidien constitué d'hexagones réguliers. C'est l'un des trois pavages réguliers du plan euclidien, avec le pavage carré et le pavage triangulaire. Le pavage hexagonal possède un symbole de Schläfli de {6,3}, signifiant que chaque sommet est entouré par 3 hexagones. Le Théorème du nid d'abeille énonce que le pavage hexagonal régulier est la partition du plan en surfaces égales ayant le plus petit périmètre.
Petit rhombicuboctaèdrethumb|180px|La première version imprimée d'un petit rhombicuboctaèdre, par Léonard de Vinci qui apparait dans la Divine Proportion. thumb|180px|Patron.|alt= Le petit rhombicuboctaèdre est un solide d'Archimède avec huit faces triangulaires et dix-huit faces carrées. Il possède 24 sommets identiques, avec un triangle et trois carrés s'y rencontrant. Le polyèdre possède une symétrie octaédrique, comme le cube et l'octaèdre. Son dual est appelé l'icositétraèdre trapézoïdal, bien que ses faces ne soient pas réellement de vrais trapèzes.
Regular 4-polytopeIn mathematics, a regular 4-polytope is a regular four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the regular polyhedra in three dimensions and the regular polygons in two dimensions. There are six convex and ten star regular 4-polytopes, giving a total of sixteen. The convex regular 4-polytopes were first described by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli in the mid-19th century. He discovered that there are precisely six such figures.
List of Euclidean uniform tilingsThis table shows the 11 convex uniform tilings (regular and semiregular) of the Euclidean plane, and their dual tilings. There are three regular and eight semiregular tilings in the plane. The semiregular tilings form new tilings from their duals, each made from one type of irregular face. John Conway called these uniform duals Catalan tilings, in parallel to the Catalan solid polyhedra. Uniform tilings are listed by their vertex configuration, the sequence of faces that exist on each vertex. For example 4.
Convex uniform honeycombIn geometry, a convex uniform honeycomb is a uniform tessellation which fills three-dimensional Euclidean space with non-overlapping convex uniform polyhedral cells. Twenty-eight such honeycombs are known: the familiar cubic honeycomb and 7 truncations thereof; the alternated cubic honeycomb and 4 truncations thereof; 10 prismatic forms based on the uniform plane tilings (11 if including the cubic honeycomb); 5 modifications of some of the above by elongation and/or gyration.
Reflection groupIn group theory and geometry, a reflection group is a discrete group which is generated by a set of reflections of a finite-dimensional Euclidean space. The symmetry group of a regular polytope or of a tiling of the Euclidean space by congruent copies of a regular polytope is necessarily a reflection group. Reflection groups also include Weyl groups and crystallographic Coxeter groups. While the orthogonal group is generated by reflections (by the Cartan–Dieudonné theorem), it is a continuous group (indeed, Lie group), not a discrete group, and is generally considered separately.
Pavage triangulaire allongéIn 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. 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.
