Precise colourings of regular triangular tilings

DOI10.1007/BF03024391MaRDI QIDQ1272415zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors John F. Rigby

Publication date 11 March 1999

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024391

zbMATH Keywords

\(k\)-treesperfect colouringsprecise colouringsregular tilings by triangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Trees (05C05) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

Review text

As indicated by its title, this paper studies the regular tilings \(\{3,n\}\) by triangles (where -- in the spherical, Euclidean, or hyperbolic plane, respectively -- \(n\) triangles meet at each vertex) and is concerned with colourings by \(n\) colours such that around each vertex all the colours occur (precise colourings). The emphasis is on precise colourings which are also perfect, i.e., for which all symmetries (fully perfect), or all direct symmetries (chirally perfect), or half of the direct and half of the indirect symmetries (semiperfect) permute the colours. The author shows how to construct such tilings, both using his method based on \(k\)-trees formed by triangles of the tiling, and also using a method of Raphael Robinson, surveys related results (including those of his student Nergiz Yaz), and reports some new ones (of work in progress).

Recommendations

• Perfect precise colourings of \(\{3,n\}\) with \(n\) colours
• Perfect precise colourings of \(\{3,n\}\) with \(n+1\) colours
• Perfect precise colourings of triangular tilings and hyperbolic patchwork

Cites work

• A Hyperbolic Plane Coloring and the Simple Group of Order 168
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3656179 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1062502 (Why is no real title available?)
• Perfect precise colourings of triangular tilings and hyperbolic patchwork

Cited in

(11)

• Perfect precise colourings of \(\{3,n\}\) with \(n+1\) colours
• Hyperbolic tessellation and colorings of trees
• Weaving mat(h)s
• Perfect precise colourings of triangular tilings and hyperbolic patchwork
• Symmetries and color symmetries of a family of tilings with a singular point
• JPD-coloring of the monohedral tiling for the plane
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1271209 (Why is no real title available?)
• A Hyperbolic Plane Coloring and the Simple Group of Order 168
• Chromatic Numbers of Specified Isohedral Tilings
• Tilings with trichromatic colored-edges triangles
• Perfect precise colorings of plane semiregular tilings

This page was built for publication: Precise colourings of regular triangular tilings

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1272415)