Multi-pinwheel, I'm pretty sure that was the MIT bathroom floor tile! The interior rectangles had two colors, something like dirty puce and dirty dark puce. Is there a standard terminology for the patterns? Lookup with the manufacturers names is impossible. "Stretcher bond" can mean anything involving rectangles, for example. There is a lovely book titled "The Grammar of Ornament" that has nice pictures from Victorian design but no useful grammar. Still, it hints at the later book "Tilings and Patterns" (yes, I've got it handy) which does not deign to describe simple rectangle tilings, deferring to Plummer's "Brick and Tile Engineering" from 1950. That is in archive.org and has a lot more engineering than tiling, but we might be better able to lookup patterns if manufacturer's should had adopted it as a standard reference. Hilarie
From: Mike Beeler <mikebeeler2@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 23:21:41 -0400
Daltile, a major tile manufacturer, agrees with "hopscotch": http://www.daltile.com/information/tile-patterns/two-tile-pattern <http://www.daltile.com/information/tile-patterns/two-tile-pattern>
Floor & Decor Outlets of America has two different names, Charleston and Kiawah, depending on the size ratio: https://www.flooranddecor.com/site-articles/what-tile-pattern-is-right-for-y... <https://www.flooranddecor.com/site-articles/what-tile-pattern-is-right-for-you.html> But they strike me as silly made-up marketing names.
Anyone have their Grunbaum handy? ("Tilings & Patterns", Branko Grunbaum & G. C. Shephard)
Mike
On May 29, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Stuart Anderson <stuart.errol.anderson@gmail.com> wrote:
But all that's completely irrelevant to my purpose, which is simply to enquire if these tilings have an established name --- preferably one rather more euphonious than my current nomenclature: The bathroom floor tiling!
Fred Lunnon
Wikipedia has a good article on these tilings;
Wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_tiling There are 4 names given: Pythagorean tiling Two squares tessellation Hopscotch pattern Pinwheel pattern (not to be confused with pinwheel tiling)
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