Truncated trihexagonal tiling

In geometry, the truncated trihexagonal tiling is one of eight semiregular tilings of the Euclidean plane. There are one square, one hexagon, and one dodecagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of tr.

Uniform colorings

There is only one uniform coloring of a truncated trihexagonal tiling, with faces colored by polygon sides. A 2-uniform coloring has two colors of hexagons. 3-uniform colorings can have 3 colors of dodecagons or 3 colors of squares.

Related 2-uniform tilings

The truncated trihexagonal tiling has three related 2-uniform tilings, one being a 2-uniform coloring of the semiregular rhombitrihexagonal tiling. The first dissects the hexagons into 6 triangles. The other two dissect the dodecagons into a central hexagon and surrounding triangles and square, in two different orientations.

Circle packing

The Truncated trihexagonal tiling can be used as a circle packing, placing equal diameter circles at the center of every point. Every circle is in contact with 3 other circles in the packing.

Kisrhombille tiling

The kisrhombille tiling or 3-6 kisrhombille tiling is a tiling of the Euclidean plane. It is constructed by congruent 30-60-90 triangles with 4, 6, and 12 triangles meeting at each vertex.
Subdividing the faces of these tilings creates the kisrhombille tiling.

Construction from rhombille tiling

Conway calls it a kisrhombille for his kis vertex bisector operation applied to the rhombille tiling. More specifically it can be called a 3-6 kisrhombille, to distinguish it from other similar hyperbolic tilings, like 3-7 kisrhombille.
It can be seen as an equilateral hexagonal tiling with each hexagon divided into 12 triangles from the center point.
It is labeled V4.6.12 because each right triangle face has three types of vertices: one with 4 triangles, one with 6 triangles, and one with 12 triangles.

Symmetry

The kisrhombille tiling triangles represent the fundamental domains of p6m, wallpaper group symmetry. There are a number of Template:632_symmetry_table|small index subgroups constructed from by mirror removal and alternation. creates *333 symmetry, shown as red mirror lines. creates 3*3 symmetry. ⁺ is the rotational subgroup. The commutator subgroup is, which is 333 symmetry. A larger index 6 subgroup constructed as, also becomes, shown in blue mirror lines, and which has its own 333 rotational symmetry, index 12.

Related polyhedra and tilings

There are eight uniform tilings that can be based from the regular hexagonal tiling. Drawing the tiles colored as red on the original faces, yellow at the original vertices, and blue along the original edges, there are 8 forms, 7 which are topologically distinct.

Symmetry mutations

This tiling can be considered a member of a sequence of uniform patterns with vertex figure and Coxeter-Dynkin diagram. For p < 6, the members of the sequence are omnitruncated polyhedra, shown below as spherical tilings. For p > 6, they are tilings of the hyperbolic plane, starting with the truncated triheptagonal tiling.