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.
IH42

 


The template for the IH42 system is any parallelogram. Only two of the 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 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 two different axes of mirror reflection symmetry. Its symmetry group is pm.
 

As an example, the following simple tile shape can be formed as shown

  

Two different colours are required to ensure no tiles of the same colour are adjacent to one another.

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