Marble floor, The Great Mosque, Damascus
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is *632 (p6m).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 30°.
- Contains one regular hexagon.
- Contains one regular 6-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 60°.
- There are two non-regular reflective tiles (including one kite).
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 237 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Page 36 (Great Mosque, Damascus, Syria. Marble floor, no colour in original) of Titus Burckhardt. Moorish Culture in Spain, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1972. ISBN 004946008. [burckhardt] {}
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