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the point is that this is the first (so, only known) tile shape that is also aperiodic. Previously aperiodic tiling schemes (like Penrose) required several tile
by fsckboy 4y ago
the point is that this is the first (so, only known) tile shape that is also aperiodic. Previously aperiodic tiling schemes (like Penrose) required several tiles of different shapes.
any additional single tile shape that was aperiodic would be interesting regardless of how many sides it has. I supposed if there turned out to be many of them there would be a grouping based on how many sides.
- fsckboy 4y agoI need to correct myself! What has been discovered is a family of shapes that are all aperiodic in the same pattern. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/examples/animation.gif https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/examples/animation.gif https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/animation.mp4 https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/animation.mp4