Intersection of {3,3,7} and the Plane at Infinity – Roice Nelson
The {3,3,7} honeycomb is a honeycomb in 3d hyperbolic space. It is the dual of the {7,3,3} honeycomb shown last time:
The image above, drawn by Roice Nelson, shows the ‘boundary’ of the {3,3,7} honeycomb: that is, the set of points on the ‘plane at infinity’ of hyperbolic space that are limits of points in the {3,3,7} honeycomb.
Roice Nelson, the creator of this image, has a blog with lots of articles about geometry, and he makes plastic models of interesting geometrical objects using a 3d printer:
• Roice.
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