744 Creating a type 15 pentagon in Illustrator

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now, if you've been watching right along,…you know that for the last three weeks,…we've been discussing some very special,…irregular convex pentagons.…And they're so very special because they tessellate…and they do so monohedrally,…meaning that you just repeat the same shape…over and over again.…But we haven't drawn a darn thing which must be frustrating,…which is why today, we are gonna draw one of those…pentagons in Illustrator.…And it's gonna be the most complex pentagon of them all,…which is Type 15, discovered in 2015,…a full 30 years after Type 14.…

And even though it is very complicated,…notice that we have to rotate it 12 times…to get all the shapes that we need,…it's actually pretty easy to draw.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…All right, so let's see how to create that…perfectly tessellating Type 15 pentagon…entirely from scratch here inside Illustrator.…And so I'm going to advance to the last artboard…inside this document by pressing…