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Regular tiling of the plane

In geometry, the triangular tiling or triangular tessellation is one of the three regular tilings of the Euclidean plane, and is the only such tiling where the constituent shapes are not parallelogons. Because the internal angle of the equilateral triangle is 60 degrees, six triangles at a point occupy a full 360 degrees. The triangular tiling has Schläfli symbol of {3,6}. Wikipedia →

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  4. Read the landmark paper: Periodic tiling of triangular and square nanotubes in a cationic metal–organic framework for selective anion exchangeCited 76 times
  5. Go sideways: Hexagonal tilingA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: List of Euclidean uniform tilingsA closely related topic

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