Hyperbolic Tilings

Poincaré disk model — {p,q} tessellations

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The Poincaré disk compresses the entire hyperbolic plane into a unit disk. In this model, geodesics are circular arcs perpendicular to the boundary. A {p,q} tiling places regular p-gons with q meeting at every vertex — impossible in Euclidean geometry when (p−2)(q−2) > 4. All polygons are geometrically equal in hyperbolic space despite looking smaller near the edge.