The regular tessellation consisting of regular hexagons
(i.e., a hexagonal grid ).
In general, the term honeycomb is used to refer to a tessellation in dimensions for . The only regular honeycomb in three dimensions is , which consists of eight cubes
meeting at each polyhedron vertex . The only
quasiregular honeycomb (with regular cells and semiregular vertex
figures ) has each polyhedron vertex surrounded
by eight tetrahedra and six octahedra
and is denoted .
Ball and Coxeter (1987) use the term "sponge" for a solid that can be parameterized by integers , ,
and that satisfy the equation
The possible sponges are ,
, , , and .
There are many semiregular honeycombs, such as , in which each polyhedron
vertex consists of two octahedra and four cuboctahedra .
See also Hexagon ,
Hexagonal Grid ,
Honeycomb Conjecture ,
Menger
Sponge ,
Regular Tessellation ,
Tessellation ,
Tetrix ,
Tiling
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