Marrakesh, Royal Palace
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Geometry
- Growth dynamic build of this pattern.
- Random dynamic build of this pattern.
- Structured dynamic build of this pattern.
- The symmetry group of the tiling is *442 (p4m).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 22.5°.
- Contains four regular two-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 45°.
- Contains four regular 8-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 90°.
- Contains one regular 16-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 45°.
- There are 15 non-regular reflective tiles (including 3 kites and one dart) and one reflective pair.
- The tiling satisfies the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 1497 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Fig 10.7a of Brian Wichmann and David Wade. Islamic Design: a Mathematical Approach, Springer, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-69. [ww] {}
- Letter from Tony Lee, 21st Jan 2008 (Royal Palace, Marrakesh, Morocco. From B and W photo, colours from Paccard, corners filled arbitrarily) of Not specific. Personal Communication, Information sent to the author, 21c. [pc]
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