n-gonsIt's #TilingTuesday - Dragon rosette. Consists of 253 equilateral shapes tiled edge to edge without any gaps. It has 12 pentagons and a needle thin hexa star.
Mary Holstege@ngons Gorgeous
skry@ngons I hope you can eventually print tiles. I would buy this mosaic for my bathroom floor right now.
In order to work, it would be necessary to make what is now the black background into harmonious shapes that can be more or less rectilinear by the time they reach the walls.
The spirals are an exciting dynamic. I can see continuing those to a floor border or edge.
@skry I can close this shape as side 2 30-gon (first image), this can then be tiled hexagonally (second image), but it would probably be a nightmare to get this on the floor in practice :)
For our guest bathroom we made a blue/green/gray hex floor, but getting it right was hard work even for the skilled tiler we hired...
If you really want to try, ping me for a shape file to use with a cnc, laser cutter or 3d printer thingie.
@ngons Thank you for the kind offer. Alas.
I think my theoretical expert tiler would need to lay big tiles in order to have a fighting chance, but making anything like tiles would be too much for my current skills and tools.
I like the spiderwebby edge on the first version a lot. It feels dynamic, wavelike, as the curves oppose the growing spiral. I like all the 5-sided polygons in it too.
I will ponder it later and try to imagine it rippling out in an interesting way.
@skry :) I know the feeling - physical pieces are so much more expensive, difficult and time-consuming. But I am interested in doing something, some time. Not sure what yet and certainly not when, but I'll surely post it here :)