Great Mosque, Damascus
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is 632 (p6).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 30°.
- Contains one regular hexagon.
- There are no non-regular reflective pairs and two tiles with no mirror image.
- The tiling satisfies the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 197 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Fig 14.4b of Brian Wichmann and David Wade. Islamic Design: a Mathematical Approach, Springer, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-69. [ww] {}
- Photo by David Wade: SYR 0130 (Great Mosque, Damascus, Syria) of David Wade. Website: patterninislamicart.com, UK, 2015. [wadei] {Website}
Photographs
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