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 15°.
- Contains one regular four-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 60° - composed of kites.
- Contains one regular 6-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 90° - composed of kites.
- There are three non-regular reflective tiles (including 3 kites).
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 353 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- From Miroslaw Majewski (Atik Valide Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey) of Not specific. Personal Communication, Information sent to the author, 21c. [pc]
- Page 37 (Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran. The basement of the bad-gir (wind tower)) of Javad Shafai. On decoration in Persian architecture and wood carving, Tehran, 1977. [shafai] {In Persian}
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