Triakis truncated tetrahedral honeycomb

Triakis truncated tetrahedral honeycomb
Cell type Triakis truncated tetrahedron
Face types hexagon
isosceles triangle
Coxeter group Ã3×2, [[3[4]]] (double)
Space group Fd3m (227)
Properties Cell-transitive

The triakis truncated tetrahedral honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of triakis truncated tetrahedra. It was discovered in 1914.[1][2]

  1. ^ Föppl, L. (1914). "Der Fundamentalbereich des Diamantgitters". Phys. Z. 15: 191–193.
  2. ^ Grünbaum, B.; Shephard, G. C. (1980). "Tilings with Congruent Tiles". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 (3): 951–973. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1980-14827-2.