Toledo tile
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is 442 (p4).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
- Contains two squares.
- Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 90°.
- There is one non-regular reflective tile and one tile with no mirror image.
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 154 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Page 334, no 748, black and white (Toledo, Spain) of Anthony Ray. Spanish pottery, 1248-1898, London : V&A Publications, 2000. ISBN 185177291. [ray] {418 pages, colour and black and white}(15th century AD)
- 308:207-1866 (Toledo, Spain) of V&A collections website. Website: collections.vam.ac.uk, UK, 2015. [vami] {Website}
- Fig 11.13b of Brian Wichmann and David Wade. Islamic Design: a Mathematical Approach, Springer, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-69. [ww] {}
Photographs
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