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You can make some pretty fun tilings out of Penrose tiles as well. My wife and I made a ceramic-tile headboard out of the Penrose P2 tiling (an aperiodic tilin
by mturmon 9y ago
You can make some pretty fun tilings out of Penrose tiles as well. My wife and I made a ceramic-tile headboard out of the Penrose P2 tiling (an aperiodic tiling) that looks quite lovely - the tiles, being handmade, avoid sterility. Like the patterns in the OP, they have recurring themes, but don't fully repeat.
- rurban 9y agoPenrose tilings would look much better, yes. They are proven to be aperiodic. Penrose' alma mater was St.John's in Cambridge but then he switched to be professor at Oxford, in the south. So they cannot really put Penrose tilings on a Cambridge station. There's huge rivalry between those two cities. But how could they fuck up Conway with Wolfram tilings? Wolfram went to St.John's in Oxford and then moved to California. No Cambridge there. Conway's alma mater was in Cambridge and then he became professor in Princeton, USA. Penrose has the same affiliations as Conway, the only problem is that Penrose stayed in the UK and went to Oxford.
- jamessb 9y agoThere is a 'Penrose Paving' outside the new Mathematical Institue in Oxford (the Andrew Wiles building), which opened in 2013. There's a video of Roger Penrose talking about it [1], and a time-lapse of it being laid [2]. [1]: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/865 https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/865 [3]: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-building https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-building
- NelsonMinar 9y agoHas the patent expired? https://morris.cymru/2009/01/penroses-patent-and-the-battle-of-the-tissue-tiles-contains-mathematics/ https://morris.cymru/2009/01/penroses-patent-and-the-battle-...