Alhambra, Patio de los Arrayanes

Patio de los Arrayanes, high stucco frieze across width of south portico. The basic square repeats horizontally but not, of course, vertically. No colour in the original.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *442 (p4m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 15°.
• Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 90°.
• Contains three regular 12-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 60°.
• There are 10 non-regular reflective tiles (including 3 kites).
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and three infinite interlaces with straight cross-overs.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 485 polygons.

1. Photo by David Wade: SPA 1606x (Alhambra, Patio de los Arrayanes, Spain) of David Wade. Website: patterninislamicart.com, UK, 2015. [wadei] {Website}

• Wade photo SPA 1606x

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