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Girih Extended #37
   
Girih Patterns: Tessellations (shapes aligned edge-to-edge with no gaps and no overlaps) can form an underlying structure for generating patterns. This makes it possible to hide the structural shapes, revealing just the pattern. An anonymous Islamic architect/mathematician masterfully created one such system, the girih tiles, allowing architects to develop elaborate patterns from just five polygons.  more...
 
  
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Girih Extended #37
   
An intermediate pattern shows both the polygons and girih lines.
  
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The underlying structure of polygons.
 
  

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