Adapter Tiles Evolves the Girih Tile Set
Lars Eriksson

Proceedings of Bridges 2020: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 19–26
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Abstract

This document presents an evolved Girih tile set beyond the five Girih Tiles popularized by Lu and Steinhardt. Additional tiles have been presented in multiple papers before, but here, a wider set is officially defined. I refer to this as the evolved tile set or evolved Girih tile set. It includes the adapter tiles, which also have been presented before, but not defined as a group or part of a tile set. Adapter tiles differ from the five Girih Tiles as the latter only have equilateral sides. This paper presents one category of adapters containing tiles having at least one side with the length of Φ. The aim is to establish non-equilateral sides as a necessary concept to enable tiling of a greater number of existing Islamic geometric patterns. This opens up for future introductions of other categories of non-equilateral tiles.

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