Order-6 dodecahedral honeycomb
The order-6 dodecahedral honeycomb is one of 11 paracompact regular honeycombs in hyperbolic 3-space. It is paracompact because it has vertex figures composed of an infinite number of faces, with all vertices as ideal points at infinity. It has Schläfli symbol, with six ideal dodecahedral cells surrounding each edge of the honeycomb. Each vertex is ideal, and surrounded by infinitely many dodecahedra. The honeycomb has a triangular tiling vertex figure.
Symmetry
A half symmetry construction exists as with alternately colored dodecahedral cells.Images
The order-6 dodecahedral honeycomb is similar to the 2D hyperbolic infinite-order pentagonal tiling,, with pentagonal faces, and with vertices on the ideal surface.Related polytopes and honeycombs
The order-6 dodecahedral honeycomb is a regular hyperbolic honeycomb in 3-space, and one of 11 which are paracompact.There are 15 uniform honeycombs in the Coxeter group family, including this regular form, and its regular dual, the order-5 hexagonal tiling honeycomb.
The order-6 dodecahedral honeycomb is part of a sequence of regular polychora and honeycombs with triangular tiling vertex figures:
It is also part of a sequence of regular polytopes and honeycombs with dodecahedral cells:
Rectified order-6 dodecahedral honeycomb
The rectified order-6 dodecahedral honeycomb, t1 has icosidodecahedron and triangular tiling cells connected in a hexagonal prism vertex figure.It is similar to the 2D hyperbolic pentaapeirogonal tiling, r with pentagon and apeirogonal faces.