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.
IH58

 


The template for the IH58 system is any parallelogram. Only two opposite sides   can be shaped and each must be in the same way, as indicated by the half-arrows. The template and any tile shape formed from it have a centre of two-fold rotation symmetry, as indicated by the dog pattern.

                              

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 centres of two-fold rotation symmetry, two different axes of glide and one of mirror  reflection symmetry. Examples of each are shown. The symmetry group of the tiling is pmg.
 

As an example, the following shaped tile can be formed

      


Tiles of two different colours suffice to avoid adjacent tiles of the same colour.

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