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CHAPTER 6 TWO-COLORED WALLPAPER PATTERNS 6.0 ...

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Once we know that a translation vector parallel to the reflection<br />

axis exists, then it is possible to pick the minimal such vector --<br />

recall that wallpaper patterns do not have arbitrarily small<br />

translations (4.0.4) -- which is easily shown to be the minimal<br />

gliding vector of a (hidden) glide reflection along the reflection axis.<br />

You should verify all these ideas for the examples in 6.3.1 and 6.3.3;<br />

you may in particular verify that the vertical translation guaranteed<br />

by the process in figure 6.23 is actually twice as long as the<br />

pattern’s minimal vertical translation.<br />

6.3.5 Symmetry plans. Even though we classified the pm types<br />

looking at their reflections and hidden glide reflections, we prefer<br />

to provide their symmetry plans based on reflections and parallel to<br />

them translations. It is of course easy to see that there exists a<br />

color-reversing translation parallel to the reflection axis if and<br />

only if the reflection and the corresponding hidden glide reflection<br />

have opposite effect on color.<br />

pm pm′ p b<br />

′ 1m<br />

p′ m p b<br />

′ g c′ m<br />

Fig. 6.24

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