Golestan Palace, Tehran
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This pattern has been drawn as a roundel. The original was a centred pattern but irregular at the edges.
Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is *8.0• (d8.0).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
- Contains three squares.
- Contains five regular 8-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 90°.
- There are four non-regular reflective tiles.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 281 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Vol 5, page 27 (Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran) of Mahmood Maher al-Naqsh. Design and execution of drawing in Iranian tilework, Islamic period, Reza Abbasi Museum, 1983. [iran] {Good collection of Iranian patterns, text in Persian} Available on Internet.
Collections of similar tilings
Patterns using same irregular tiles: 4
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