Tiling Space by Platonic Solids, I
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چکیده
There exist precisely 914, 58 and 46 equivariant types of tile-transitive tilings of 3-dimensional euclidean space by topological cubes, oc-tahedra and tetrahedra, that fall into 11, 3, and 9 topological families, respectively. Representatives are described for all topological families. A general method for obtaining results of this kind is introduced.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Discrete & Computational Geometry
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999