Friday Mosque in Isfahan

Topic:
Symmetry
On one of the walls of the north-eastern dome chamber of the Friday Mosque in Isfahan we find a remarkable pattern.
Image
foto: Tom Goris
foto: Tom Goris
One of the niches under the dome bears an underlying pattern with two types of pointed polygons: dodecagonal and fourteen-sided, creating a line pattern of equilateral triangles. It takes some more attention to see its remarkable.