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Cheap Area Rugs Field Patterns -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rugs FIELD PATTERNS result when symmetrical repetition takes place in two directions, thus forming a two-dimensional pattern that covers the plane. There are seventeen (17) systems which mathematicians classify as round rugs symmetry groups:

translations reflections reflections + reflections rotations (6) reflections + rotations (6)

Symmetry and Pattern - Asymmetry and Symmetry-Breaking - The Four Basic Symmetries - Border Patterns - Field Patterns - Grids and Tessellations

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