In geometry, the trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. Cells are identical trigonal trapezohedra or rhombohedra. Conway, Burgiel, and Goodman-Strauss call it an oblate cubille.

Related honeycombs and tilings

This honeycomb can be seen as a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb, with the rhombic dodecahedra dissected with its center into 4 trigonal trapezohedra or rhombohedra.

Trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb

It is analogous to the regular hexagonal being dissectable into 3 rhombi and tiling the plane as a rhombille. The rhombille tiling is actually an orthogonal projection of the trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb. A different orthogonal projection produces the quadrille where the rhombi are distorted into squares.

Trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb

Dual tiling

It is dual to the quarter cubic honeycomb with tetrahedral and truncated tetrahedral cells:

Trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb

See also

Architectonic and catoptric tessellation

References

Honeycombs (geometry)