Apeirogonal antiprism

Apeirogonal antiprism
Type	Semiregular tiling
Vertex configuration	120px 3.3.3.∞
Schläfli symbol	sr{2,∞}
Wythoff symbol	| 2 2 ∞
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry	[∞,2+], (∞22)
Rotation symmetry	[∞,2]+, (∞22)
Bowers acronym	Azap
Dual	Apeirogonal deltohedron
Properties	Vertex-transitive

In geometry, an apeirogonal antiprism or infinite antiprism is the arithmetic limit of the family of antiprisms; it can be considered an infinite polyhedron or a tiling of the plane.

If the sides are equilateral triangles, it is a uniform tiling. In general, it can have two sets of alternating congruent isosceles triangles, surrounded by two half-planes.

Related tilings and polyhedra

The apeirogonal antiprism is the arithmetic limit of the family of antiprisms sr{2, p} or p.3.3.3, as p tends to infinity, thereby turning the antiprism into a Euclidean tiling.

It can be constructed by an alternation operation applied to an apeirogonal prism:

Its dual tiling is an apeirogonal deltohedron:

Similarly to the uniform polyhedra and the uniform tilings, eight uniform tilings may be based from the regular apeirogonal tiling. The rectified and cantellated forms are duplicated, and as two times infinity is also infinity, the truncated and omnitruncated forms are also duplicated, therefore reducing the number of unique forms to four: the apeirogonal tiling, the apeirogonal hosohedron, the apeirogonal prism, and the apeirogonal antiprism.

(∞ 2 2)	Parent	Truncated	Rectified	Bitruncated	Birectified (dual)	Cantellated	Omnitruncated (Cantitruncated)	Snub
Wythoff	2 | ∞ 2	2 2 | ∞	2 | ∞ 2	2 ∞ | 2	∞ | 2 2	∞ 2 | 2	∞ 2 2 |	| ∞ 2 2
Schläfli	{∞,2}	t{∞,2}	r{∞,2}	t{2,∞}	{2,∞}	rr{∞,2}	tr{∞,2}	sr{∞,2}
Coxeter
Image Vertex figure	{∞,2}	∞.∞	∞.∞	4.4.∞	{2,∞}	4.4.∞	60px 4.4.∞	3.3.3.∞

References

• The Symmetries of Things 2008, John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5
• T. Gosset: On the Regular and Semi-Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions, Messenger of Mathematics, Macmillan, 1900