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The Andreini tessellations are tilings of three-dimensional space using Platonic and Archimedean solids such that all vertices are identical. They are special case of uniform tessellation .
There are 28 such tessellations. See B. Grünbaum, Uniform tilings of 3-space. Geombinatorics 4(1994), 49 - 56.
The tiling of octahedra and tetrahedra is of special importance since its vertices form a cubic close-packing of spheres. All of these are found in crystal arrangements.
Some important examples are:
- The tiling of cubess
- The tiling of octahedra and cuboctahedra
- The tiling of truncated octahedra
- The tiling of octahedra and tetrahedra
- The tiling of tetrahedra and truncated tetrahedra
External Links
- The Uniform Polyhedra
- Virtual Reality Polyhedra The Encyclopedia of Polyhedra
