Tiles

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A Tessellation Featuring Rings of Pentagons

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An Unusual Tessellation

This tessellation appears, at first, to be regular (or “Archimedean,” by analogy with the Archimedean solids), for all of the polygons included are regular. However, it is not vertex-transitive, which keeps it from qualifying as a regular or Archimedean tessellation.

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Shield Mandala

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Tessellation Featuring Regular Enneagons and Hexaconcave, Equilateral Dodecagons

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A Tiling of a Plane, Using Diconcave Octagons, Rhombi, and Two Types of Kites

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A Radial Tessellation, on the Topic of the Difficulty in Tessellating with Regular Pentagons

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Fractiles’ Mandala, Based on Angles of Pi/7 Radians

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Although this was based on something I constructed using the Fractiles-7 magnetic tiling toy, I did not have enough magnetic pieces to finish this. The idea was, therefore, converted into a (non-Euclidean) construction using Geometer’s Sketchpad, and then refined using MS-Paint. The reason I describe this as a non-Euclidean construction is that an angle of pi/7 radians, such as the acute angles in the red rhombi, cannot be constructed using compass and unmarked straight edge: antiquity’s Euclidean tools. The other angles used are whole-number multiples of pi/7 radians, up to and including 6pi/7 radians for the obtuse angles of the red rhombi.

The yellow rhombi have angles measuring 2pi/7 and 5pi/7 radians, while the blue rhombi’s angles measures 3pi/7 and 4pi/7 radians. None of these angles have degree measures which are whole numbers. It is no coincidence that 7 is not found among the numerous factors of 360. It is, in fact, the smallest whole number for which this is true.

I have a conjecture that this aperiodic radial tiling-pattern could be continued, using these same three rhombi, indefinitely, but this has not yet been tested beyond the point shown.

Two Color-Patterns of a Tessellation Using Squares, Rhombi, Equilateral Hexagons, Tetraconcave Octagons, and Regular Octagons

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Octagons Can Tile a Plane III

Unlike my previous octagon-tiling discoveries (see previous post), this is a chiral, radial tessellation, with the colors chosen to highlight that fact.

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