This is a mirror of Tom McLean's site about isohedral tiling templates. The original website seems to have disappeared. This mirror is hosted by Jaap Scherphuis, jaapsch.net/tilings.
IH28

 


The template for the IH28 system is any pentagon with two pairs of adjacent sides such that the sides in each pair are both equal and orthogonal to one another. All five sides of the pentagon can be shaped, as indicated by the   half-arrows. The template and any tile shape formed from it have no internal symmetry as indicated by the dog.

                                  

A translation cluster is

                          

A section of the tiling formed by this template is shown below, with a translation cluster outlined.  The two basic translations are indicated by the the vectors drawn from the highlighted cluster. The tiling has three types of centres of rotation symmetry, one two-fold and two four-fold. An example of each of is indicated. The tiling symmetry group is p4.

As an example, the following shape, based on a design by Escher in the form of a fish, can be generated which will tile in this system

        

The associated tiling requires tiles of four different colours to avoid adjacent tiles having the same colour.

 Author - Tom P McLean --- tom.mclean@virgin.net