The Kali4Star would actually be very possible -it's just square units
and rectangle units.
Roberta in D, feeling tempted

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:24:41 +0000, Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote:

While looking for something else entirely, I came across the "Kali"
tiling pattern generator for Classic MacOS. It creates patterns
based on the 17 different plane symmetry groups. Within about five
minutes of initial tinkering with it I came up with this:
http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliHex.gif
which looks like it ought to have potential as a quilt design,
albeit not that easy to machine-piece.
Ooh! that's beautiful Jack. I'd love to have a go at it.
May I try?

Show us a picture when you're done?

We're just finishing off a version of this, which I described a while ago.
Not as straightforward as it looks:

http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/Kali2Squares.gif

This looks doable if a bit weird:

http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliParallelograms.gif

But you can easily generate designs that look neat but would be insanely
difficult to put together:

http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/Kali4Star.gif
http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliOverlapSquares.gif

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