Golestan Palace, 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 11.25°.
- Contains one square.
- Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 90° - composed of kites.
- There is one non-regular reflective tile (including one kite) and three reflective pairs.
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 488 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Page 68 (Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran. This pattern appears on the doors to the basement of the wind-tower) of Javad Shafai. On decoration in Persian architecture and wood carving, Tehran, 1977. [shafai] {In Persian}
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