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The grout when tiling allows for a fair amount of fudging things, though from experience exactly dimensioned tiles are MUCH easier to work with.

• masfuerte 3y ago
  With periodic tilings you can uniformly scale them to make room for grout of any thickness. Intuitively, it seems like aperiodic tiles would have to be manufactured slightly too small to leave room for grout, and the tiling would only work if the grout was exactly the right thickness. I wouldn't want to lay them.
  • Doxin 3y ago
    Oh that's an interesting point actually. I hadn't considered the tiles needing to be designed around the grout width. Still, I don't think you'd need to be particularly exact with the tiles or grout. In fact it would probably be best to eyeball it and make sure you work outward from a single spot. Trying to tile by e.g. starting around the outside edges and working inwards is bound to get you in trouble with compounding error. This is sounding like a more interesting project by the minute.
    • masfuerte 3y ago
      On reflection I've realised my point was nonsense. Sorry.
      • Doxin 3y ago
        It's not nonsense. The fact that aperiodic tiles like these need to be designed for a specific grout width is non-obvious and quite interesting.