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Girih Extended #78
   
Nine hundred years ago Islamic architects developed the remarkable patterning system now known as girih, from the Persian word for “knot”. Girih are decorated polygons, aligned edge-to-edge like a tiling.  more...
 
  
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An intermediate pattern shows both the polygons and girih lines.
  
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The underlying structure of polygons.
 
  

“Decagonal Dome”