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The 28 ways to tile a flat surface with asymmetric tiles by Heinrich Heesch

An easy-to-use tool to create, design, save and load tessellations from the 28 heesch prebuilt tile types

The 28 Heesch Tiles:

01 - TTTT - Net: 4444 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 1

02 - TTTTTT - Net: 333333 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 1

03 - CCC - Net: 666 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 2

04 - CCCC - Net: 4444 - Arb.Lin: 4 - Layers: 2

05 - TCTC - Net: 4444 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 2

06 - TCTCC - Net: 44333 - Arb.Lin: 4 - Layers: 2

07 - TCCTCC - Net: 333333 - Arb.Lin: 5 - Layers: 2

08 - C3C3C3C3 - Net: 6363 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 3

09 - C3C3C3C3C3C3 - Net: 333333 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 3

10 - CC3C3 - Net: 12,12,3 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 6

11 - CC6C6 - Net: 6666 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 6

12 - C3C3C6C6 - Net: 6434 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 6

13 - CC3C3C6C6 - Net: 63333 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 6

14 - CC4C4 - Net: 884 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 4

15 - C4C4C4C4 - Net: 4444 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 4

16 - CC4C4C4C4 - Net: 43433 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 4

17 - G1G1G2G2 - Net: 4444 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 2

18 - TG1G1TG2G2 - Net: 333333 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 2

19 - TGTG - Net: 4444 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 2

20 - TG1G2TG2G1 - Net: 333333 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 2

21 - CGG - Net: 666 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 4

22 - CCGG - Net: 4444 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 4

23 - CC3C3 - Net: 44333 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 4

24 - TCCTGG - Net: 333333 - Arb.Lin: 4 - Layers: 4

25 - CGCG - Net: 4444 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 4

26 - G1G2G1G2 - Net: 4444 - Arb.Lin: 2 - Layers: 4

27 - CG1G2G1G2 - Net: 43433 - Arb.Lin: 3 - Layers: 4

28 - CG1CG2G1G2 - Net: 333333 - Arb.Lin: 4 - Layers: 4