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The herringbone pattern is an arrangement of rectangles used for floor tilings and road pavement, so named for a fancied resemblance to the bones of a fish such as a herring. The blocks can be rectangles or parallelograms. The block edge length ratios are usually 2:1, and sometimes 3:1, but need not be even ratios.
For subtle variation, build a patio using pavers in the same material and two different shapes. For instance, the patio in this Florida home by Andrew Howard combines squares and rectangles. The ...
The most common of these is the herringbone pattern. This pattern is the strongest of the block paving bonds as it offers the most interlock, therefore making it a good choice for driveways and road surfacing. A herringbone pattern can be created by setting the blocks at either 45 degrees or 90 degrees to the perpendicular.
A tiling with rectangles is a tiling which uses rectangles as its parts. The domino tilings are tilings with rectangles of 1 × 2 side ratio. The tilings with straight polyominoes of shapes such as 1 × 3, 1 × 4 and tilings with polyominoes of shapes such as 2 × 3 fall also into this category.
The herringbone method was used by Filippo Brunelleschi in constructing the dome of the Cathedral of Florence (Santa Maria del Fiore). [2]Examples in France exist in the churches at Querqueville in Normandy and St Christophe at Suèvres, both dating from the 10th century, and in England herring-bone masonry is found in the walls of castles, such as at Guildford, Colchester and Tamworth, [1] as ...
In geometry, a tiling is a partition of the plane (or any other geometric setting) into closed sets (called tiles), without gaps or overlaps (other than the boundaries of the tiles). [1]
Rows of squares with horizontal offsets Rows of triangles with horizontal offsets A tiling by squares: Three hexagons surround each triangle Six triangles surround every hexagon. Three size triangles cmm (2*22) p2 (2222) cmm (2*22) p4m (*442) p6 (632) p3 (333) Hexagonal tiling Square tiling Truncated square tiling Truncated hexagonal tiling
A database of all known perfect rectangles, perfect squares and related shapes can be found at squaring.net. The lowest number of squares need for a perfect tiling of a rectangle is 9 [19] and the lowest number needed for a perfect tilling a square is 21, found in 1978 by computer search. [20]