The template for the IH4 system is any hexagon with a pair of opposite sides equal and parallel to one another. All six 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. An example of a template is
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 vectors drawn from the highlighted cluster. The tiling has four different centres of two-fold rotation symmetry. Its symmetry group is p2.
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