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Some Nice Pictures of a Hyperbolic Tiling of the Poincaré Disk
Author

Matthew Cook
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Description

The Graphics Gallery picture "Hyperbolic Tiling of the Poincare Disk" (by I. Rivin) shows a tiling by infinite triangles such that for adjacent triangles ABC and BCD, AD is perpendicular to BC. This notebook generates pictures and mesmerizing animations of this tiling.
Subjects

*Mathematica Technology > Programming > 2D Graphics
*Mathematica Technology > Programming > Animations
*Mathematics > Geometry > Plane Geometry
*Mathematics > Geometry > Tiling
Keywords

Poincare Hyperbolic Tiling, Poincare disk, infintie triangles, animation, 2D graphics
Downloads Download Mathematica Player

Poincare.nb (3.3 MB) - Mathematica Notebook

Files specific to Mathematica 2.2 version:
Poincare.ma (881.4 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older


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