A periodic Tessellation by an Irregular Pentagon

A periodic Tessellation by an Irregular Pentagon

by Ferdinando Stehle

This is the starting point: an irregular pentagon, obtained from a square by cutting off a corner.
[penta_bw]

A simple tessellation of a plane surface is the following:
[simple_bw]

A more complex, and more nice, tessellation, which alterns octagons and "hour-glasses"... is the following:
[complex_bw]


And now, let's color it!!!

Starting with a pentagon coloured like the following one
[penta_col]

... we can obtain a nice tessellatin in the Islamic "Alhambra" style !!!
[penta_col]