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.
IH55

 


The template for the IH55 system is a square as shown below. All 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 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 types of centres of rotation symmetry, one two-fold and the others four-fold. An example of each  is indicated. The tiling symmetry group is p4.
 

From this template we can produce a tile shape in the form of a small animal.

  

Four different colours are required to avoid the colour of adjacent tiles being the same.

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