Uniform coloring
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The hexagonal tiling has 3 uniform colorings. |
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1111, 1112(a), 1112(b),
1122, 1123(a), 1123(b),
1212, 1213, 1234.
In geometry, a uniform coloring is a property of a uniform figure (uniform tiling or uniform polyhedron) that is colored to be vertex-transitive. Different symmetries can be expressed on the same geometric figure with the faces following different uniform color patterns.
A uniform coloring can be specified by listing the different colors with indices around a vertex figure.
n-uniform figures
[edit]In addition, an n-uniform coloring is a property of a uniform figure which has n types vertex figure, that are collectively vertex transitive.
Archimedean coloring
[edit]A related term is Archimedean color requires one vertex figure coloring repeated in a periodic arrangement. A more general term are k-Archimedean colorings which count k distinctly colored vertex figures.
For example, this Archimedean coloring (left) of a triangular tiling has two colors, but requires 4 unique colors by symmetry positions and become a 2-uniform coloring (right):
![]() 1-Archimedean coloring 111112 |
![]() 2-uniform coloring 112344 and 121434 |
References
[edit]- Grünbaum, Branko; Shephard, G. C. (1987). Tilings and Patterns. W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 0-7167-1193-1. Uniform and Archimedean colorings, pp. 102–107
External links
[edit]- Weisstein, Eric W. "Polyhedron coloring". MathWorld.
- Uniform Tessellations on the Euclid plane
- Tessellations of the Plane
- David Bailey's World of Tessellations
- k-uniform tilings
- n-uniform tilings