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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

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

Poincare Hyperbolic Tiling, Poincare disk, infintie triangles, animation, 2D graphics
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