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, the order-5 square tiling is a
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. It has
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Related polyhedra and tiling

This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure (4n). This hyperbolic tiling is related to a semiregular infinite skew polyhedron with the same vertex figure in Euclidean 3-space. :


References

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


See also

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Square tiling In geometry, the square tiling, square tessellation or square grid is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane consisting of four squares around every vertex. John Horton Conway called it a quadrille. Structure and properties The square tili ...
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Uniform tilings in hyperbolic plane In hyperbolic geometry, a uniform hyperbolic tiling (or regular, quasiregular or semiregular hyperbolic tiling) is an edge-to-edge filling of the hyperbolic plane which has regular polygons as Face (geometry), faces and is vertex-transitive (Tran ...
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List of regular polytopes This article lists the regular polytopes in Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic spaces. Overview This table shows a summary of regular polytope counts by rank. There are no Euclidean regular star tessellations in any number of dimensions. ...
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Medial rhombic triacontahedron In geometry, the medial rhombic triacontahedron (or midly rhombic triacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is a stellation of the rhombic triacontahedron, and can also be called small stellated triacontahedron. Its dual is the d ...


External links

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Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery


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