Tunis: marble border in a mosque frieze
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is *22∞ (p2mm).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
- Contains 8 squares.
- Contains two regular 8-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 90°.
- There are four non-regular reflective tiles and two reflective pairs.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 53 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Plate 52 (Tunis, Tuisia. Marble border in a mosque frieze) of J Collin. EÌtude pratique de la deÌcoration polygonale arabe, Paris, 1911. ISBN . [collin] {}
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