We take the 2-layer construction of previous activity adding 2 supplementery layers.[br]Discover with the buttons of the navigation bar how layers are built up to form a half dome. The arrows of the vectors lead from bottom to the apex.

In next applet you see a tiling, based on squares and rhombuses.[br]Click on the arrows of the navigation bar and show stepwise polylines on the tiling.[br]You see that tiling and polyline macht the top view of the muqarnas.[br]In other words, you can analyse and represent muqarnas as a tiling.[br]And the other way round, you can design muqarnas starting from a tiling.[br][br]In the drawing below you notice that the differend tiers are formed by intersecting a serie of polygons of the same shape by a polyline:[br][list][*]rhombuses are divided into bipeds and almonds over layer 0 and 1,[/*][*]squares are divided into large bipeds and jugs over layer 0 and 1,[/*][*]rhombuses are divided into bipeds and almonds over layer 2 and 3.[/*][/list]