Triangular tiling honeycomb infinite cells or vertex figures. There are nine uniform honeycombs in the [3,6,3] Coxeter group family, including this regular form as well as the bitruncated form, t{3,6,3}, with all truncated hexagonal tiling facets. The rectified triangular tiling honeycomb, , has alternating trihexagonal tiling and hexagonal tiling cells, with a triangular prism vertex figure. A lower symmetry of this honeycomb can be constructed as a "cantic order-6 hexagonal tiling honeycomb", ↔ . A second lower construction, index is ↔ . The truncated triangular tiling honeycomb, is the same as the hexagonal tiling honeycomb, . The bitruncated triangular tiling honeycomb, , has
Wax foundation Wax foundation Wax foundation or honeycomb base is a plate made of wax with the base of the honeycomb. It is used in beekeeping to give the bees a foundation on which they can build the honeycomb. Wax foundation is considered one of the most important inventions in modern beekeeping. Wax foundation was invented by German Johannes Mehring in 1857, a few years after Langstroth designed and patented the Langstroth hive on October 5, 1852. Mehring's wax foundation had only the bottom of the cells, and today's base with the foundation of the cells was invented by US beekeeper Samuel