Heptagonal tiling

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Heptagonal tiling
Rank3
TypeRegular
SpaceHyperbolic
Notation
Bowers style acronymHeat
Coxeter diagramx7o3o ()
Schläfli symbol{7,3}
Elements
Faces6N Heptagons
Edges21N
Vertices14N
Vertex figureTriangle, edge length 2cos(π/7)
Measures (edge length 1)
Circumradius
Related polytopes
ArmyHeat
RegimentHeat
DualOrder-7 triangular tiling
Abstract & topological properties
SurfaceSphere
OrientableYes
Genus0
Properties
Symmetry[7,3]
ConvexYes

The order-3 heptagonal tiling, or just heptagonal tiling or heat, is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. 3 heptagons join at each vertex.

This tiling is the simplest tiling with three regular polygons at each vertex that neither fits in Euclidean space like the hexagonal tiling does, nor folds into spherical space like the dodecahedron (pentagons), cube (squares), or tetrahedron (triangles).

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