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What are the real life usages of this?

psychoslave 4y ago
To optimize surface use in industrial print plants, orders are gathered, and they need to be combined in some way. Not sure this particular tiling can help, but this popped immediately in my mind.
kryptiskt 4y ago
If nothing else, you could use the shape for floor tiles.
- onecommentman 4y ago
  And if you use them in your house, future archeologists could definitely date your ruins to no earlier than 2022/2023. If you had a document and wanted to prevent it from being “backdated” earlier than 2022/2023, you could use the tiling pattern as a background. A geometric time stamp of sorts.
  - rbanffy 4y ago
    Either that, or it would upend the future understanding of our progress in geometry if you print it with old ink on old stock paper that’s dated substantially earlier than 2022/23.
  - deelly 4y ago
    Very interesting idea! We just have to be sure that these tiles don't already exists in some crystals or materials, in biological creatures, or somewhere else.
- lozenge 4y ago
  I heard the construction workers were very frustrated when they had to use aperiodic tiling on the floor of Oxford's Mathematical Institute.
  - IIAOPSW 4y ago
    When I think of groups that ave it too easy, I think of construction workers. Academia, now there's real work.
- Scarblac 4y ago
  Sadly floor tiles have clear up and down sides, and this tiling requires them to be flipped now and then. But if you could also get them in four colors, it'd still be a kind of ultimate mathematical floor.
bmacho 4y ago
Exactly this probably doesn't have any, but better math leads to better matter/material in general.
kajaktum 4y ago
Isn't tiling knowledge pretty useful in games? Specifically how to layout textures on a massive field.
- rbanffy 4y ago
  I’d imagine chemistry as well. With that many interlocking places, a molecule like that could be an interesting 2D material.
noelwelsh 4y ago
Art
onecommentman 4y ago
It could be a post-GPT watermark. If a document used this tiling pattern as a (faint) background, you could say definitively that the document was produced in the GPT era and thus might simply be automated babble.
pharmakom 4y ago
Camouflage fabric ?
neoneye2 4y ago
Will it be possible to make crystal structures from this?
zubspace 4y ago
Procedural generation in games: Dungeon/Map generation or for combining or creating textures. And you could also used this maybe as an alternative to grid or hexagonal based games. What makes this stand out is, that you can create larger structures of simple tiles, where repeating patterns and seams between tiles are less visible.
- IYasha 4y ago
  Imagine, gods forbid, getting lost in such a labirynth... 8(
IYasha 4y ago
Trolling... I mean, throttling video cards ) Making untiling textures. Also, this probably could have uses in watermarking and encryption (if you want to do so, I'm not patenting this, just give credits :D )

To optimize surface use in industrial print plants, orders are gathered, and they need to be combined in some way. Not sure this particular tiling can help, but this popped immediately in my mind.

kryptiskt 4y ago

If nothing else, you could use the shape for floor tiles.

onecommentman 4y ago
And if you use them in your house, future archeologists could definitely date your ruins to no earlier than 2022/2023. If you had a document and wanted to prevent it from being “backdated” earlier than 2022/2023, you could use the tiling pattern as a background. A geometric time stamp of sorts.
- rbanffy 4y ago
  Either that, or it would upend the future understanding of our progress in geometry if you print it with old ink on old stock paper that’s dated substantially earlier than 2022/23.
- deelly 4y ago
  Very interesting idea! We just have to be sure that these tiles don't already exists in some crystals or materials, in biological creatures, or somewhere else.
lozenge 4y ago
I heard the construction workers were very frustrated when they had to use aperiodic tiling on the floor of Oxford's Mathematical Institute.
- IIAOPSW 4y ago
  When I think of groups that ave it too easy, I think of construction workers. Academia, now there's real work.
Scarblac 4y ago
Sadly floor tiles have clear up and down sides, and this tiling requires them to be flipped now and then. But if you could also get them in four colors, it'd still be a kind of ultimate mathematical floor.

bmacho 4y ago

Exactly this probably doesn't have any, but better math leads to better matter/material in general.

kajaktum 4y ago

Isn't tiling knowledge pretty useful in games? Specifically how to layout textures on a massive field.

rbanffy 4y ago
I’d imagine chemistry as well. With that many interlocking places, a molecule like that could be an interesting 2D material.

noelwelsh 4y ago

Art

onecommentman 4y ago

It could be a post-GPT watermark. If a document used this tiling pattern as a (faint) background, you could say definitively that the document was produced in the GPT era and thus might simply be automated babble.

pharmakom 4y ago

Camouflage fabric ?

neoneye2 4y ago

Will it be possible to make crystal structures from this?

zubspace 4y ago

Procedural generation in games: Dungeon/Map generation or for combining or creating textures. And you could also used this maybe as an alternative to grid or hexagonal based games. What makes this stand out is, that you can create larger structures of simple tiles, where repeating patterns and seams between tiles are less visible.

IYasha 4y ago
Imagine, gods forbid, getting lost in such a labirynth... 8(

IYasha 4y ago

Trolling... I mean, throttling video cards ) Making untiling textures. Also, this probably could have uses in watermarking and encryption (if you want to do so, I'm not patenting this, just give credits :D )