Geometry and tessellations are much older than Pompeii. This is one of eight combinations called Archimedean tessellations or semi-regular tessellations. You can look them up on the Wolfram Mathworld website.
Regards, Julia > On 9 May 2023, at 15:47, [email protected] wrote: > > > Yesterday I was in Pompei and saw these tiles forming this shape of an > octagon surrounded by equilateral triangles and I had seen it last week in > some churches as well. Pompei is from the 1 st century AD and churches a few > centuries older which surprised me even though the shape is simple and > logical and has been used by Chirs Palmer and several others even myself in > origami stars and tessellations. > > So I was wondering if this shape has a name and if someone can share any > interesting information about it. > > > Perhaps a link to see what you are referring to? > Faye
