Attarine Medersa, Fez

• Gold star pattern(photo). Dynamic build of this pattern.
• The symmetry group of the tiling is *632 (p6m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 7.5°.
• Contains one regular hexagon.
• Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 90°.
• Contains one regular 12-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 60°.
• There are 7 non-regular reflective tiles and one reflective pair.
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and three infinite interlaces.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 345 polygons.

• Page 104 (Qarawiyyin Mosque) from [broug]
• Figure 85 (Zellij from the Alhambra - location unknown) from [burckhardt]
• Frontispiece (The original has white interlacing and different colouring) from [critchlow]
• Page 282 (/2), Vol 2 (Marrakesh, Dar Beida, little door) from [paccard]
• Page 49, Vol 1 (Attarin madrasa, zellij (different colours), Morocco, Fez) from [paccard]

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• Wade photo MOR 0307

• Tiling with star polygons with 12 points whose vertex angle is 60° and a hexagon

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