St Mark's Venice
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is *632 (p6m).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 30°.
- Contains five equilateral triangles.
- Contains three regular two-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 60°.
- There are five non-regular reflective tiles (including 2 kites).
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 606 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Plate XXX(22) (Byzantine ornament. Mosaic, St Mark's Venice, Italy) of Owen Jones. The Grammar of Ornament, Dover, 1856. ISBN 048625463. [jones] {Excellent book with 100 colour plates, with many containing several tiling patterns.} Fuller version available on Internet.
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