it's got two (Galois-conjugate) faithful 2D irreps over C:https://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~matyd/GroupNames/1/SD16.html. A generic orbit there contains 16 points, so will give you a shape, but I have no idea what it is.
A subgroup of order 2 acts as -I on those reps, so each orbit consists of 8 points and their antipodes.
The reps seem to genuinely be complex (bc the characters include sqrt(-2)), so you probably really have to think of it as 16 points in C^2, which might be harder to visualize than R^2.
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2025-03-25 18:43:40
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