Bourgoin, Plate 81

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *632 (p6m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 15°.
• Contains three squares.
• Contains one regular 12-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 60°.
• There are 8 non-regular reflective tiles (including 2 kites).
• The tiling satisfies the two-colour condition.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 405 polygons.

1. Page 134 of Keith Critchlow. Islamic Patterns - An Analytical and Cosmological Approach, Thames and Hudson, 1976. ISBN 050027071. [critchlow] {Gives about 6 patterns not found in Bourgoin.}
2. Page 186 of S J Abas and A S Salman. Symmetries of Islamic Geometrical Patterns, World Scientific, 1995. ISBN 981021704. [abas] {Very many patterns in black and white, no sources given.}
3. Plate 81 of J Bourgoin. Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design, Dover, 1879. ISBN 048622924. [bourgoin] {Classical book of around 200 hand-produced patterns, in back and white.} Fuller version available on Internet.

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