glide reflection
nounDefinitions
A transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line.
- Thus every function of the form eⁱᵃz + c is the composition of a translation with a reflection and so it is a glide reflection.
- That turns out to have one small spaceship, moving diagonally up and left at c/14 with period 14 (glide reflection at generation 7):
- Footprints along a line have glide reflection symmetry.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for glide reflection. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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