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geometry Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is c ...
, a convex uniform honeycomb is a
uniform A uniform is a variety of clothing worn by members of an organization while participating in that organization's activity. Modern uniforms are most often worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency services, se ...
tessellation A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane (mathematics), plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called ''tiles'', with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to high-dimensional ...
which fills three-dimensional
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with non-overlapping
convex Convex or convexity may refer to: Science and technology * Convex lens, in optics Mathematics * Convex set, containing the whole line segment that joins points ** Convex polygon, a polygon which encloses a convex set of points ** Convex polytope ...
uniform polyhedral cells. Twenty-eight such honeycombs are known: * the familiar
cubic honeycomb The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a re ...
and 7 truncations thereof; * the
alternated cubic honeycomb The tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb, alternated cubic honeycomb is a quasiregular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. It is composed of alternating regular octahedra and tetrahedra in a ratio of 1:2. Other names incl ...
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. They can be considered the three-dimensional analogue to the uniform tilings of the plane. The
Voronoi diagram In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects. In the simplest case, these objects are just finitely many points in the plane (called seeds, sites, or generators). For each seed ...
of any
lattice Lattice may refer to: Arts and design * Latticework, an ornamental criss-crossed framework, an arrangement of crossing laths or other thin strips of material * Lattice (music), an organized grid model of pitch ratios * Lattice (pastry), an orna ...
forms a convex uniform honeycomb in which the cells are
zonohedra In geometry, a zonohedron is a convex polyhedron that is centrally symmetric, every face of which is a polygon that is centrally symmetric (a zonogon). Any zonohedron may equivalently be described as the Minkowski sum of a set of line segments in ...
.


History

* 1900:
Thorold Gosset John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset (16 October 1869 – December 1962) was an English lawyer and an amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher, and ...
enumerated the list of semiregular convex polytopes with regular cells (
Platonic solid In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges c ...
s) in his publication ''On the Regular and Semi-Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions'', including one regular cubic honeycomb, and two semiregular forms with tetrahedra and octahedra. * 1905:
Alfredo Andreini Alfredo Andreini (27 July 1870, in Florence – 11 December 1943, in Lippiano) was an Italians, Italian physician and entomologist. He carried out a large collection of insects collected in particular from Cape Verde (1908) and in Libya (1913) and ...
enumerated 25 of these tessellations. * 1991: Norman Johnson's manuscript ''Uniform Polytopes'' identified the list of 28. * 1994:
Branko Grünbaum Branko Grünbaum ( he, ברנקו גרונבאום; 2 October 1929 – 14 September 2018) was a Croatian-born mathematician of Jewish descent4 being missing. Grünbaum states in this paper that Norman Johnson deserves priority for achieving the same enumeration in 1991. He also mentions that I. Alexeyev of Russia had contacted him regarding a putative enumeration of these forms, but that Grünbaum was unable to verify this at the time. * 2006: George Olshevsky, in his manuscript ''Uniform Panoploid Tetracombs'', along with repeating the derived list of 11 convex uniform tilings, and 28 convex uniform honeycombs, expands a further derived list of 143 convex uniform tetracombs (Honeycombs of
uniform 4-polytope In geometry, a uniform 4-polytope (or uniform polychoron) is a 4-dimensional polytope which is vertex-transitive and whose cells are uniform polyhedra, and faces are regular polygons. There are 47 non-prismatic convex uniform 4-polytopes. There ...
s in 4-space). Only 14 of the convex uniform polyhedra appear in these patterns: * three of the five
Platonic solid In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges c ...
s (the
tetrahedron In geometry, a tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertex corners. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the o ...
,
cube In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. Viewed from a corner it is a hexagon and its net is usually depicted as a cross. The cube is the only r ...
, and
octahedron In geometry, an octahedron (plural: octahedra, octahedrons) is a polyhedron with eight faces. The term is most commonly used to refer to the regular octahedron, a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at ea ...
), * six of the thirteen
Archimedean solid In geometry, an Archimedean solid is one of the 13 solids first enumerated by Archimedes. They are the convex uniform polyhedra composed of regular polygons meeting in identical vertices, excluding the five Platonic solids (which are composed ...
s (the ones with reflective tetrahedral or octahedral symmetry), and * five of the infinite family of
prism Prism usually refers to: * Prism (optics), a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light * Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron Prism may also refer to: Science and mathematics * Prism (geology), a type of sedimentary ...
s (the 3-, 4-, 6-, 8-, and 12-gonal ones; the 4-gonal prism duplicates the cube). The
icosahedron In geometry, an icosahedron ( or ) is a polyhedron with 20 faces. The name comes and . The plural can be either "icosahedra" () or "icosahedrons". There are infinitely many non- similar shapes of icosahedra, some of them being more symmetrica ...
,
snub cube In geometry, the snub cube, or snub cuboctahedron, is an Archimedean solid with 38 faces: 6 squares and 32 equilateral triangles. It has 60 edges and 24 vertices. It is a chiral polyhedron; that is, it has two distinct forms, which are mirr ...
, and
square antiprism In geometry, the square antiprism is the second in an infinite family of antiprisms formed by an even-numbered sequence of triangle sides closed by two polygon caps. It is also known as an ''anticube''. If all its faces are regular, it is a sem ...
appear in some alternations, but those honeycombs cannot be realised with all edges unit length.


Names

This set can be called the regular and semiregular honeycombs. It has been called the Archimedean honeycombs by analogy with the convex uniform (non-regular) polyhedra, commonly called
Archimedean solid In geometry, an Archimedean solid is one of the 13 solids first enumerated by Archimedes. They are the convex uniform polyhedra composed of regular polygons meeting in identical vertices, excluding the five Platonic solids (which are composed ...
s. Recently Conway has suggested naming the set as the Architectonic tessellations and the dual honeycombs as the
Catoptric tessellation Catoptrics (from grc-gre, κατοπτρικός ''katoptrikós'', "specular", from grc-gre, κάτοπτρον ''katoptron'' "mirror") deals with the phenomena of reflection (physics), reflected light and image, image-forming Optics, optical s ...
s. The individual honeycombs are listed with names given to them by Norman Johnson. (Some of the terms used below are defined in Uniform 4-polytope#Geometric derivations for 46 nonprismatic Wythoffian uniform 4-polytopes) For cross-referencing, they are given with list indices from Andreini (1-22), Williams(1-2,9-19), Johnson (11-19, 21–25, 31–34, 41–49, 51–52, 61–65), and Grünbaum(1-28). Coxeter uses δ4 for a
cubic honeycomb The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a re ...
, hδ4 for an
alternated cubic honeycomb The tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb, alternated cubic honeycomb is a quasiregular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. It is composed of alternating regular octahedra and tetrahedra in a ratio of 1:2. Other names incl ...
, qδ4 for a
quarter cubic honeycomb The quarter cubic honeycomb, quarter cubic cellulation or bitruncated alternated cubic honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. It is composed of tetrahedra and truncated tetrahedra in a ratio of 1:1. It is c ...
, with subscripts for other forms based on the ring patterns of the Coxeter diagram.


Compact Euclidean uniform tessellations (by their infinite Coxeter group families)

The fundamental infinite
Coxeter group In mathematics, a Coxeter group, named after H. S. M. Coxeter, is an abstract group that admits a formal description in terms of reflections (or kaleidoscopic mirrors). Indeed, the finite Coxeter groups are precisely the finite Euclidean refl ...
s for 3-space are: # The _3, ,3,4 cubic, (8 unique forms plus one alternation) # The _3, ,31,1 alternated cubic, (11 forms, 3 new) # The _3 cyclic group, 3,3,3,3)or [4/sup>.html" ;"title=".html" ;"title="[4">[4/sup>">.html" ;"title="[4">[4/sup> (5 forms, one new) There is a correspondence between all three families. Removing one mirror from _3 produces _3, and removing one mirror from _3 produces _3. This allows multiple constructions of the same honeycombs. If cells are colored based on unique positions within each Wythoff construction, these different symmetries can be shown. In addition there are 5 special honeycombs which don't have pure reflectional symmetry and are constructed from reflectional forms with ''elongation'' and ''gyration'' operations. The total unique honeycombs above are 18. The prismatic stacks from infinite Coxeter groups for 3-space are: # The _2×_1, [4,4,2,∞] prismatic group, (2 new forms) # The _2×_1, [6,3,2,∞] prismatic group, (7 unique forms) # The _2×_1, [(3,3,3),2,∞] prismatic group, (No new forms) # The _1×_1×_1, ,2,∞,2,∞prismatic group, (These all become a ''cubic honeycomb'') In addition there is one special ''elongated'' form of the triangular prismatic honeycomb. The total unique prismatic honeycombs above (excluding the cubic counted previously) are 10. Combining these counts, 18 and 10 gives us the total 28 uniform honeycombs.


The C̃3, ,3,4group (cubic)

The regular cubic honeycomb, represented by Schläfli symbol , offers seven unique derived uniform honeycombs via truncation operations. (One redundant form, the ''runcinated cubic honeycomb'', is included for completeness though identical to the cubic honeycomb.) The reflectional symmetry is the affine
Coxeter group In mathematics, a Coxeter group, named after H. S. M. Coxeter, is an abstract group that admits a formal description in terms of reflections (or kaleidoscopic mirrors). Indeed, the finite Coxeter groups are precisely the finite Euclidean refl ...
,3,4 There are four index 2 subgroups that generate alternations: +,4,3,4 4,3,4,2+) ,3+,4 and ,3,4sup>+
, with the first two generated repeated forms, and the last two are nonuniform.


3, ,31,1group

The _3, ,3group offers 11 derived forms via truncation operations, four being unique uniform honeycombs. There are 3 index 2 subgroups that generate alternations: +,4,31,1 ,(31,1)+ and ,31,1sup>+
. The first generates repeated honeycomb, and the last two are nonuniform but included for completeness. The honeycombs from this group are called ''alternated cubic'' because the first form can be seen as a ''cubic honeycomb'' with alternate vertices removed, reducing cubic cells to tetrahedra and creating octahedron cells in the gaps. Nodes are indexed left to right as ''0,1,0',3'' with 0' being below and interchangeable with ''0''. The ''alternate cubic'' names given are based on this ordering.


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Coxeter group In mathematics, a Coxeter group, named after H. S. M. Coxeter, is an abstract group that admits a formal description in terms of reflections (or kaleidoscopic mirrors). Indeed, the finite Coxeter groups are precisely the finite Euclidean refl ...
, of which only the ''quarter cubic honeycomb'' is unique. There is one index 2 subgroup [4/sup>]+ which generates the snub form, which is not uniform, but included for completeness.


Nonwythoffian forms (gyrated and elongated)

Three more uniform honeycombs are generated by breaking one or another of the above honeycombs where its faces form a continuous plane, then rotating alternate layers by 60 or 90 degrees (''gyration'') and/or inserting a layer of prisms (''elongation''). The elongated and gyroelongated alternated cubic tilings have the same vertex figure, but are not alike. In the ''elongated'' form, each prism meets a tetrahedron at one triangular end and an octahedron at the other. In the ''gyroelongated'' form, prisms that meet tetrahedra at both ends alternate with prisms that meet octahedra at both ends. The gyroelongated triangular prismatic tiling has the same vertex figure as one of the plain prismatic tilings; the two may be derived from the gyrated and plain triangular prismatic tilings, respectively, by inserting layers of cubes.


Prismatic stacks

Eleven prismatic tilings are obtained by stacking the eleven uniform plane tilings, shown below, in parallel layers. (One of these honeycombs is the cubic, shown above.) The
vertex figure In geometry, a vertex figure, broadly speaking, is the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off. Definitions Take some corner or Vertex (geometry), vertex of a polyhedron. Mark a point somewhere along each connect ...
of each is an irregular bipyramid whose faces are
isosceles triangle In geometry, an isosceles triangle () is a triangle that has two sides of equal length. Sometimes it is specified as having ''exactly'' two sides of equal length, and sometimes as having ''at least'' two sides of equal length, the latter versio ...
s.


The C̃2×Ĩ1(∞), ,4,2,∞ prismatic group

There are only 3 unique honeycombs from the square tiling, but all 6 tiling truncations are listed below for completeness, and tiling images are shown by colors corresponding to each form.


The G̃21(∞), ,3,2,∞prismatic group


Enumeration of Wythoff forms

All nonprismatic
Wythoff construction In geometry, a Wythoff construction, named after mathematician Willem Abraham Wythoff, is a method for constructing a uniform polyhedron or plane tiling. It is often referred to as Wythoff's kaleidoscopic construction. Construction process ...
s by Coxeter groups are given below, along with their alternations. Uniform solutions are indexed with
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arrangements. The
alternated cubic honeycomb The tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb, alternated cubic honeycomb is a quasiregular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. It is composed of alternating regular octahedra and tetrahedra in a ratio of 1:2. Other names incl ...
is of special importance since its vertices form a cubic
close-packing In geometry, close-packing of equal spheres is a dense arrangement of congruent spheres in an infinite, regular arrangement (or lattice). Carl Friedrich Gauss proved that the highest average density – that is, the greatest fraction of space occu ...
of spheres. The space-filling
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of packed octahedra and tetrahedra was apparently first discovered by
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and independently re-discovered by
Buckminster Fuller Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more t ...
(who called it the
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and patented it in the 1940s)

Octet trusses are now among the most common types of truss used in construction.


Frieze forms

If Cell (mathematics), cells are allowed to be
uniform tiling In 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 f ...
s, more uniform honeycombs can be defined: Families: *_2×A_1: ,4,2 ''Cubic slab honeycombs'' (3 forms) *_2×A_1: ,3,2 ''Tri-hexagonal slab honeycombs'' (8 forms) * _2×A_1: 3,3,3),2 ''Triangular slab honeycombs'' (No new forms) *_1×A_1×A_1: ,2,2 = ''Cubic column honeycombs'' (1 form) *I_2(p)×_1: ,2,∞ ''Polygonal column honeycombs'' (analogous to
duoprism In geometry of 4 dimensions or higher, a double prism or duoprism is a polytope resulting from the Cartesian product of two polytopes, each of two dimensions or higher. The Cartesian product of an -polytope and an -polytope is an -polytope, wher ...
s: these look like a single infinite tower of p-gonal prisms, with the remaining space filled with
apeirogonal prism In geometry, an apeirogonal prism or infinite prism is the arithmetic limit of the family of prisms; it can be considered an infinite polyhedron or a tiling of the plane.Conway (2008), p.263 Thorold Gosset called it a ''2-dimensional semi-check ...
s) * _1×_1×A_1: ,2,∞,2= ,4,2- = (Same as cubic slab honeycomb family) The first two forms shown above are semiregular (uniform with only regular facets), and were listed by
Thorold Gosset John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset (16 October 1869 – December 1962) was an English lawyer and an amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher, and ...
in 1900 respectively as the ''3-ic semi-check'' and ''tetroctahedric semi-check''.


Scaliform honeycomb

A scaliform honeycomb is
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, like a ''uniform honeycomb'', with regular polygon faces while cells and higher elements are only required to be ''orbiforms'', equilateral, with their vertices lying on hyperspheres. For 3D honeycombs, this allows a subset of
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s along with the uniform polyhedra. Some scaliforms can be generated by an alternation process, leaving, for example,
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and
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gaps.


Hyperbolic forms

There are 9
Coxeter group In mathematics, a Coxeter group, named after H. S. M. Coxeter, is an abstract group that admits a formal description in terms of reflections (or kaleidoscopic mirrors). Indeed, the finite Coxeter groups are precisely the finite Euclidean refl ...
families of compact uniform honeycombs in
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, generated as
Wythoff construction In geometry, a Wythoff construction, named after mathematician Willem Abraham Wythoff, is a method for constructing a uniform polyhedron or plane tiling. It is often referred to as Wythoff's kaleidoscopic construction. Construction process ...
s, and represented by ring permutations of the Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams for each family. From these 9 families, there are a total of 76 unique honeycombs generated: * ,5,3: - 9 forms * ,3,4: - 15 forms * ,3,5: - 9 forms * ,31,1: - 11 forms (7 overlap with ,3,4family, 4 are unique) * 4,3,3,3): - 9 forms * 4,3,4,3): - 6 forms * 5,3,3,3): - 9 forms * 5,3,4,3): - 9 forms * 5,3,5,3): - 6 forms Several
non-Wythoffian In geometry, a Wythoff construction, named after mathematician Willem Abraham Wythoff, is a method for constructing a uniform polyhedron or plane tiling. It is often referred to as Wythoff's kaleidoscopic construction. Construction process ...
forms outside the list of 76 are known; it is not known how many there are.


Paracompact hyperbolic forms

There are also 23 paracompact Coxeter groups of rank 4. These families can produce uniform honeycombs with unbounded facets or vertex figure, including ideal vertices at infinity:


References

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John H. Conway John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English people, English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to ...
, Heidi Burgiel,
Chaim Goodman-Strauss Chaim Goodman-Strauss (born June 22, 1967 in Austin TX) is an American mathematician who works in convex geometry, especially aperiodic tiling. He is on the faculty of the University of Arkansas and is a co-author with John H. Conway of ''The Sym ...
, (2008) ''The Symmetries of Things'', (Chapter 21, Naming the Archimedean and Catalan polyhedra and tilings, Architectonic and Catoptric tessellations, p 292–298, includes all the nonprismatic forms) *
Branko Grünbaum Branko Grünbaum ( he, ברנקו גרונבאום; 2 October 1929 – 14 September 2018) was a Croatian-born mathematician of Jewish descentGeombinatorics Alexander Soifer is a Russian-born American mathematician and mathematics author. His works include over 400 articles and 13 books. Soifer obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 and has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado since 197 ...
4, 49 - 56. * Norman Johnson (1991) ''Uniform Polytopes'', Manuscript * (Chapter 5: Polyhedra packing and space filling) * * Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995,

** (Paper 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, ''Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I'', ath. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380–407, MR 2,10(1.9 Uniform space-fillings) * A. Andreini, (1905) ''Sulle reti di poliedri regolari e semiregolari e sulle corrispondenti reti correlative'' (On the regular and semiregular nets of polyhedra and on the corresponding correlative nets), Mem. Società Italiana della Scienze, Ser.3, 14 75–129.
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* Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville, D. M. Y. Sommerville, (1930) ''An Introduction to the Geometry of n Dimensions.'' New York, E. P. Dutton, . 196 pp. (Dover Publications edition, 1958) Chapter X: The Regular Polytopes * Chapter 5. Joining polyhedra
Crystallography of Quasicrystals: Concepts, Methods and Structures
by Walter Steurer, Sofia Deloudi (2009), p. 54-55. 12 packings of 2 or more uniform polyhedra with cubic symmetry


External links

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VRML models

Vertex transitive space filling honeycombs with non-uniform cells.
Uniform partitions of 3-space, their relatives and embedding
1999
The Uniform Polyhedra
The Encyclopedia of Polyhedra
octet truss animationReview: A. F. Wells, Three-dimensional nets and polyhedra, H. S. M. Coxeter (Source: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 84, Number 3 (1978), 466-470.)
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