Cloth merchants' mosque in Tehran
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is *442 (p4m).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 7.5°.
- Contains five regular octagons.
- Contains two regular four-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 45°.
- There are five non-regular reflective tiles.
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 219 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Page 245 (Cloth merchants' mosque, Tehran, Iran) of Javad Shafai. On decoration in Persian architecture and wood carving, Tehran, 1977. [shafai] {In Persian}
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