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.
IH33

 


The template for the IH33 system is a rhombus with angles of 60° and 120°, as shown below. All four sides 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 from this template is also shown below, with a translation cluster outlined.  The two basic translations are indicated by  the vectors drawn from the highlighted cluster. The tiling has three types of centres of three-fold rotation symmetry. An example of each  is indicated. The tiling symmetry group is p3.

From this template we can produce the following bird-like tile

      

Three different colours are required to avoid adjacent tiles having the same colour.
 

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