The principle iwan of the Friday mosque in Isfahan
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is 4*2 (p4g).
- Contains two regular octagons.
- Contains one regular 10-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 85.5°.
- There are three non-regular reflective tiles and one reflective pair.
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 131 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Page 135, bottom (Friday mosque, Isfahan, Iran) of Degeorge, G Ìerard and Porter. The Art of the Islamic Tile, Paris, 2002. ISBN 208010876. [degeorge2] {}
- Photo by David Wade: IRA 0719 (Friday mosque, Isfahan, Iran) of David Wade. Website: patterninislamicart.com, UK, 2015. [wadei] {Website}
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