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A honeycomb is a tight packing of polyhedra that allows no gaps. It can be considered the generalization of tessellations in three-dimensional spaces (and more generally in spaces with any number of dimensions).
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Todesco, G.M. (2020). Hyperbolic Honeycomb. In: Emmer, M., Abate, M. (eds) Imagine Math 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42653-8_17
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