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.
IH67

 


The template for the IH67 system is any trapezium, with its non-parallel sides equal in length. Only these non-parallel sides can be shaped and this must be done in the same way, as indicated by the half-arrows.  The template and any  tile shape formed from it have an axis of internal reflection 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 four different centres of two-fold rotation symmetry as well as two different axes of glide reflection and two of mirror reflection  symmetry; an example of each is shown. The  symmetry  group of  the tiling is cmm.
 

From this template we can produce a tile in the form of a vase.

        

To avoid similarly coloured adjacent tiles, two different tile colours are required.

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