Tomb of Moulay Ishmael, Meknes

Common and widespread, proportions variable; occurs throughout Islam

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *632 (p6m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 10°.
• Contains one regular 9-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 80°.
• Contains one regular 12-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 60°.
• There are 7 non-regular reflective tiles.
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and one infinite interlace.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 313 polygons.

• Plate XLIII(8) (From the Grenada Palace, Spain) from [jones]
• postcard (Ornamental panel from a Koran, Morocco AD 1568, British Library, or.1405,f.400a.) from [pc]
• Page 193 from [abas]
• Page 42 from [cahier]

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• Wade photo MOR 0833

• Tilings not constructible by straightedge and compass

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