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I love that pattern where the pentagons make up hexagons. When I own a house that's going in the kitchen.

• surement 9y ago
  Are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_tiling#Pentagonal.2Fhexagonal_tessellation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_tiling#Pentagonal.2...
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• steiza_ 9y ago
  Many aperiodic tilings rely on "substitutions" which let you express very complicated patterns with some simple recursion. I've found this maps well to express them in programming languages, like PostScript (although most implementations limit the stack at some point). For an example of expressing these patterns in PostScript, and what it looks like on closet doors, check out https://github.com/steiza/postscript_fractals https://github.com/steiza/postscript_fractals
• pfd1986 9y ago
  you might also enjoy playing with 'ghost diagrams':http://logarithmic.net/pfh/ghost-diagrams http://logarithmic.net/pfh/ghost-diagrams