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.
IH61

 


The template for the IH61 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 a centre of two-fold rotation 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 as an example the following tile shape.

 

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

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