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.
IH78

 


The template for the IH78 system is any right-angled triangle. Only the hypotenuse 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 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, two different axes of mirror and two of glide reflection symmetry. Examples of each are shown. The symmetry group of the tiling is cmm.
 

As an example, the following tile shape can be formed

    

Tiles of two different colours suffice to avoid adjacent tiles of the same colour.

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