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A new class of monohedral pentagonal spherical tilingswith GeoGebra

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Resumo:By a monohedral spherical tiling we mean a decomposition of the sphereby geodesic congruent polygons. Here, making use of GeoGebra, a well known freeinteractive mathematics software, we show how to generate new classes of monohedralnon-convex triangular and new non-convex pentagonal spherical tilings, changing theside gluing rules of the regular spherical tetrahedral tiling, by means of a local actionof particular subgroups of spherical isometries. In both cases each face haspas areameasure.In relation to the new class of pentagonal tilings, we describe some of their propertiesand show the existence, in a special case, of an associated dihedral triangular spherical til-ing, that is, a tiling composed by two sets of congruent triangles.These classes of spherical tilings have emerged as a result of an interative constructionprocess, only possible by the use of newly produced GeoGebra tools and the dynamic inter-action capabilities of this software.
Autores principais:Breda, Ana
Outros Autores:Santos, José M. Santos dos
Assunto:Spherical geometry GeoGebra Spherical tilings
Ano:2018
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:artigo
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade de Aveiro
Idioma:inglês
Origem:RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro
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Resumo:By a monohedral spherical tiling we mean a decomposition of the sphereby geodesic congruent polygons. Here, making use of GeoGebra, a well known freeinteractive mathematics software, we show how to generate new classes of monohedralnon-convex triangular and new non-convex pentagonal spherical tilings, changing theside gluing rules of the regular spherical tetrahedral tiling, by means of a local actionof particular subgroups of spherical isometries. In both cases each face haspas areameasure.In relation to the new class of pentagonal tilings, we describe some of their propertiesand show the existence, in a special case, of an associated dihedral triangular spherical til-ing, that is, a tiling composed by two sets of congruent triangles.These classes of spherical tilings have emerged as a result of an interative constructionprocess, only possible by the use of newly produced GeoGebra tools and the dynamic inter-action capabilities of this software.