Hall of the Golestan Palace, Tehran
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is *2222 (pmm).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
- Contains 8 squares.
- Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 135° - composed of kites.
- 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 314 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Page 132 (Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran, From the hall) of Javad Shafai. On decoration in Persian architecture and wood carving, Tehran, 1977. [shafai] {In Persian}
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