al-Fadawiyya Mosque
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is 632 (p6).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 30°.
- There are no non-regular reflective pairs and two tiles with no mirror image.
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 140 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- E.3845:55-1938 (al-Fadawiyya, Cairo, Egypt. Sketchbook by James Wild) of V&A collections website. Website: collections.vam.ac.uk, UK, 2015. [vami] {Website}(1479-81AD, 884-6AH)
- Fig 14.2b of Brian Wichmann and David Wade. Islamic Design: a Mathematical Approach, Springer, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-69. [ww] {}
Photographs
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