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Tiling by Escher with stars
Page 86 of Doris Schattschneider's book.
Clearly inspired by Islamic patterns, but is this an Escher invention?
Colouring from Escher.
This pattern is not a member of an interesting class of mathematical patterns.
All M.C.Escher works © 2000 Cordon Art BV - Baarn - the Netherlands. All rights reserved.
Statistics on this tiling:
- Tiling has symmetry
p6.
- Tiling has 3 polygons (with 42 edges) of which 1 are specified as copies of others.
- Edges are completely connected.
- Tiling is edge-to-edge.
- Internal angles a multiple of 30°.
- Contains 6 pointed star with vertex angle of 30°.
- Contains one non-regular polygon which
does not have reflective symmetry.
- Tiling contains 164 polygons.
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