Additional Cnstructions
Next we add geodesics to produce more congruent hyperbolic triangles. | ||
We demonstrate this by adding geodesics through point A in the diagram on the left. | ||
These geodesics are rotations of the geodesic CAB about the point A by angles of 30, 60, and 90. | ||
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Left: Geodesics are to be added through point A. Right: Finding the poles P1, P2, and P3. | ||
Because they are centers of geodesics through A, D and E lie on the polar of A. | ||
Thus each geodesic through A is an arc of a circle with center on the line through D and E. | ||
Rotate the segment AD about A by angles of 30, 60 and 90. | ||
The intersection of these rotated segments with DE are the centers of the circles determining the geodesics shown on the left. | ||
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Left: Geodesics through A using P1, P2, and P3 as centers. Right: The next level of tiles. | ||
These new hperbolic triangles are congruent to one another, and to the hyperbolic triangles constructed earlier. | ||
Continuing this process can generate (many steps of) a tiling of the Poincare disc. |
Return to construction.