I saw this pattern posted in the Facebook group “Mathematical Tiling and Tessellation” and had to give it a go in SU. Cutting it into a rectangular space would be tricky though!
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it’s impossible, the whole point of this pattern is that it repeats by spiralling around a starting point. can’t tile it using only translation (needed for SU), only rotation.
only thing you can do is tile it manually…
actually that’s not that hard. you can make tiles with whatever shape (mold) you want.
the single tile is not that complex. harder shapes have been made tiles
but using it as a pattern in sketchup is not possible.
I’m sorry, but you seem to be totally misunderstanding me! I’m talking about fitting real tiles into a real rectangular room (not SU tiling), all those non-orthogonal cuts are a PITA and holding the tiles would also be tricky.
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Update: It seems that I misunderstood you as well. Did you mean that in real life it would be difficult to assemble?
It would be OK to assemble until you came to the walls, I think. I know that there are clever techniques to use one tile as a template to mark another, but as I’ve only seen this used on square or rectangular tiles I am not sure if it would work on tiles shaped like these.
nah, it works as well. just extra work. but what is extra work when the end result is a sexy floor right ? 
the sides, just like the rest, are hand-crafted and hand-adjusted.
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