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Persian

Notes: This tessellation is an example of the unit cells technique. The unit cells are regular hexagons and can be constructed by connecting the outer vertices of the reddish star-shaped polygons. Interestingly, each regular hexagon was divided in such a way that the resulting boundary lines interact to form even larger regular hexagons (which outline the green shapes)! This tessellation has all four symmetries: translational, reflective, rotational, and glide reflectional.

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Book:	Jones, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament: All 100 Color Plates from the Folio Edition of the Great Victorian Sourcebook of Historic Design. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1987.
Location:	Plate 45

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