Pentagon motifs and snakes

Here are a couple of motifs I found from a pentagon made up of four isosceles triangles (see previous posts).

After many hours of playing with this shape, I stumbled upon a really neat way of building snake-like chains of pentagons that have infinite length and variety.

Above are the three building blocks (or welds) that can be used on their own or in combination to produce something like this…

Snake tiling

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