The Alhambra, North alcove in East and West walls of Salon de Comares
T01521, data177/C126
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is 4*2 (p4g).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
- There is one non-regular reflective tile and one reflective pair.
- The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and one infinite interlace.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 47 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Page 300 of S J Abas and A S Salman. Symmetries of Islamic Geometrical Patterns, World Scientific, 1993. ISBN 981021704. [abas] {Very many patterns in black and white.}
- Page 126 (Window grille at Alhambra) of Keith Critchlow. Islamic Patterns - An Analytical and Cosmological Approach, Thames and Hudson, 1976. ISBN 050027071. [critchlow] {Gives about 6 patterns not found in Bourgoin.}
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