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A polyhe, also called an n-he, is a shape obtained from a polyhex with n cells by cutting each regular hexagon along a diagonal joining opposite vertices and retaining one half, so that the remaining halves are connected along edges of positive length. The construction was suggested by Brendan Owen (Clarke). In counting polyhes, translations, rotations, and reflections are identified. The numbers of n-hes for n=1, 2, ... are given by 1, 4, 13, 60, 276, 1416, 7201, 37972, ... (OEIS A057712; Clarke).

Polyhes are a subset of the polyiamonds. Specifically, the monohe is the unique triamond, the four dihes are the bar, sphinx, butterfly, and chevron hexiamonds.


See also

Polyform, Polyiamond

Portions of this entry contributed by Jonathan Vos Post

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References

Clarke, A. L. "Polyhes." https://web.archive.org/web/20060624064855/http://www.recmath.com/PolyPages/PolyPages/Polyhes.htm.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequence A057712 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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Weisstein, Eric W., with contributions by Jonathan Vos Post. "Polyhe." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Polyhe.html

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