Hyperbolic Tessellation — Poincaré Disk

Tiling:
{4,5} pentagons {3,7} triangles {6,4} hexagons {5,4} pentagons Depth: 4
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Hyperbolic tessellations tile the Poincaré disk with congruent polygons. The {p,q} tiling uses q regular p-gons meeting at each vertex; possible only when (p−2)(q−2)>4 (negative curvature). Drag to explore.