Template:Did you know nominations/Ideal polyhedron
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:29, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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Ideal polyhedron
Tiling of hyperbolic space by ideal octahedra
- ... that unlike their Euclidean equivalents, the ideal regular tetrahedron, octahedron, and dodecahedron can all tile hyperbolic space (pictured)? Source: "Visualizing Hyperbolic Honeycombs", free arXiv version: "The tiling of euclidean space by cubes, {4,3,4}, is the only regular euclidean honeycomb" (page 1). The three ideal tilings are the ones in the first three rows of the left column of table 7 (page 23), but a more easily recognized statement of the hook claim can be found in "Euclidean decompositions of noncompact hyperbolic manifolds" [1], p. 78: "Suppose we have a tesselation of H3 by regular ideal hyperbolic polyhedra (i.e. with vertices at infinity). This is possible with tetrahedra, cubes, octahedra, and dodecahedra, but not with icosahedra."
- Reviewed: Hainer Hill
Improved to Good Article status by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 06:29, 4 September 2020 (UTC).
New GA of good quality (and impressively readable for such a complex subject); no citation, policy, or copyright issues. Hook is appropriate length and interesting. QPQ is done. Image is freely licensed, grabs the attention, and shows up well. Good to go. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:42, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
