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.
IH59

 


The template for the IH59 system is any rhombus. All  sides of the rhombus can be shaped, but all 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 the vectors drawn from the highlighted cluster. The tiling has two different centres of two-fold rotation symmetry and two different axes of glide reflection symmetry, as indicated. The tiling symmetry group is pgg.

As an example, the following shape can be formed.

  


The associated tiling requires tiles of two different colours to avoid adjacent tiles  having  the same colour.

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