Trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb


The trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation in Euclidean 3-space. Cells are identical trigonal trapezohedron or rhombohedra. John Horton Conway calls 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.

rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb

Rhombic dodecahedra dissection

Rhombic net

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.

Dual tiling

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