Wallpaper Groups
Tilings with translational symmetry can be categorized by wallpaper groups, of which 17 exist. All seventeen of these groups are represented in the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain. Of the three regular tilings two are in the p6m wallpaper group and one is in p4m.
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