Wallpaper Figures 1 and 2

By Olena Shmahalo

March 5, 2013

Figure 1. A wallpaper pattern, left, with six-fold rotational symmetry around each of the brown-green rosettes.
Figure 2. A wallpaper pattern with reflection symmetries across (unmarked) horizontal lines through each of the elliptical stained-glass ornaments.
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