Endless Patterns

Geometric stars and girih: 4-fold: geometric star pattern

Draw a true girih patch from its five tiles, or a star pattern on regular polygons, then download a seamless repeat, a stencil and a wall panel.

4-fold: geometric star pattern

The repeat, tiled to fill the square.

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Original constructions. These are geometric star patterns built on regular polygons. They aren't girih, which uses a specific set of five tiles.

Sources

  • Peter J. Lu and Paul J. Steinhardt, Decagonal and Quasi-Crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture, Science 315, 2007. Background on the five girih tiles behind the 10-fold option of the star maker. The layout itself was found by computer search and doesn't come from this paper.
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