Unlike my previous octagon-tiling discoveries (see previous post), this is a chiral, radial tessellation, with the colors chosen to highlight that fact.
Octagons Can Tile a Plane III
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Octagons Can Tile a Plane II
In April 2014, I found a tessellation of the plane which uses two kinds of octagons — both types equilateral, but only one type regular.
Now, I have found two more ways to tessellate a plane with octagons, and these octagons are also equilateral. However, in these new tessellations, only one type of octagon is used. One of them appears below, twice (the second time is with reversed colors), and the other one appears, once, in the next post.
A Truncated Icosahedron, Formed By Silver Pipes, and Gold Fastenings
I made this precious-metal version of the truncated icosahedron using Stella 4d, a program which is available here: http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
A Compound of Two Pyritohedral Dodecahedra
I made this compound using Stella 4d, a program which is available here: http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
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