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.
IH77

 


The template for the IH77 system is a right-angled triangle with other angles of 60° and 30° as shown below. None of the three sides can be shaped. The template and its associated tile have no internal symmetry as  indicated by the dog pattern.

                          

A translation cluster is

                

A section of the tiling formed by 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 centres of rotation symmetry, one two-fold, one of three-fold and one of         six-fold, as well as two axes of mirror and two of glide reflection symmetry. An  example of each is indicated. The tiling symmetry group is p6m.

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No shaping of the sides of the template is allowed. Also the template has the full symmetry of an isosceles triangle, so that no internal decoration is required to lower its symmetry.

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

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