Sunday, March 11, 2012

Colour symmetry. Portuguese pavements: Brasil, Londrina and Ipanema, Calçadão - p2mm - «c2mm»


«» are all drawn by Jorge Rezende


Small yellow circles mean rotations of order 2. Mirrors are represented by red lines.

Mirrors are represented by red lines, glide reflections by green lines. Small yellow circles mean rotations of order 2. Yellow lines are the border of a fundamental region. (12) means that the colours white and grey are interchanged; i means the identity.


This is an example of the case stated in the third row of the table in Section 4.8 (Figure 13, «c2mm») in


The pavement in Ipanema is similar:


See:
Wallpaper groups. Portuguese pavements: Brasil, Londrina, Calçadão - p2mm
Wallpaper groups. Portuguese pavements: p2mm
Wallpaper groups. Portuguese pavements: Ipanema, Calçadão - p2mm
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