Re: MIA, Ask an Expert: tasselation

["Jeff Knope" <jknope@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, November 09, 2005
"faulkel" asked:

> What are the commands to tesselate one equilateral
> triangle and two regular dodecagons. which is the
> vertex figure

Tesselated figures always share legs, so there cannot be two different 
dodecagons. But the tesselation of a dodecagon and a equalateral triangle is 
shown in the attached project.

I have little doubt this project could be substantially improved. It is not 
based on any deep understanding of tessallation, but is more of a brute 
force drawing generator. It will make the tessellation with user-provided 
leg lengths up to about 25. Larger than that, and you get into "wrap" 
problems that make the drawing confusing.

-Jeff

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