A traditional wavelet is a special case of a vector in a separable Hilbert
space that generates a basis under the action of a system of unitary operators
defined in terms of translation and dilation operations. A
Coxeter/fractal-surface wavelet is obtained by defining fractal surfaces on
foldable figures, which tesselate the embedding space by reflections in their
bounding hyperplanes instead of by translations along a lattice. Although both
theories look different at their onset, there exist connections and
communalities which are exhibited in this semi-expository paper. In particular,
there is a natural notion of a dilation-reflection wavelet set. We prove that
dilation-reflection wavelet sets exist for arbitrary expansive matrix
dilations, paralleling the traditional dilation-translation wavelet theory.
There are certain measurable sets which can serve simultaneously as
dilation-translation wavelet sets and dilation-reflection wavelet sets,
although the orthonormal structures generated in the two theories are
considerably different