• tiling theory: colored patterns and tilings, polygonal tilings, aperiodic tilings, Wang tiles, and tilings with unusual kinds of tiles. Each chapter open...
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    symmetry, Penrose tilings may have both reflection symmetry and fivefold rotational symmetry. Penrose tilings are named after mathematician and physicist Roger...
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    such tilings for n = 1; 20 such tilings for n = 2; 39 such tilings for n = 3; 33 such tilings for n = 4; 15 such tilings for n = 5; 10 such tilings for...
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    uniform tilings (regular and semiregular) of the Euclidean plane, and their dual tilings. There are three regular and eight semiregular tilings in the...
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    The herringbone pattern is an arrangement of rectangles used for floor tilings and road pavement, so named for a fancied resemblance to the bones of a...
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    Cyclotruncated simplectic honeycomb List of uniform tilings Grünbaum, Branko; Shephard, G. C. (1987). Tilings and Patterns. W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-0-7167-1193-3....
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    needed] A set of tile-types (or prototiles) is aperiodic if copies of these tiles can form only non-periodic tilings. The Penrose tilings are a well-known...
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    Monohedral tilings by convex polygons Tilings and patterns, from list of 107 isohedral tilings, pp. 473–481 Tilings and patterns, uniform tilings that are...
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    in a tessellation pattern. In his 1619 work Harmonice Mundi, among periodic tilings, Johannes Kepler includes nonperiodic tilings, like that with three...
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    Natural patterns include spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tilings, cracks, and those created by symmetries of rotation and reflection. Patterns have an...
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  • visualization and graphic design, Truchet tiles are square tiles decorated with patterns that are not rotationally symmetric. When placed in a square tiling of the...
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    several new aperiodic tilings, each among the simplest known examples of aperiodic sets of tiles. He also showed how to generate tilings using lines in the...
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  • Branko; Shephard, G. C. (1987). Tilings and Patterns. New York: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-1193-1. (6.4 Isotoxal tilings, pp. 309–321) Coxeter, Harold Scott...
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    triangular tiling) Tilings and patterns, p.102-107 "The Lattice A2". Order in Space: A design source book, Keith Critchlow, p.74-75, pattern 1 Tilings and Patterns...
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    Krotenheerdt tilings, with no other such k-uniform tilings for k > 7, and it is also the only k for which the count of Krotenheerdt tilings agrees with...
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    tilings, which were found by Robinson in 1971. The A1 tiles are one of five sets of tiles discovered by Ammann and described in Tilings and patterns....
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    hexagonal tiling). Tilings of regular polygons List of uniform tilings Chavey, D. (1989). "Tilings by Regular Polygons—II: A Catalog of Tilings". Computers &...
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    Branko; Shephard, G. C. (1987). Tilings and Patterns. W. H. Freeman. p. 21, 29. Lorenzo, Sadun (2008). Topology of Tiling Spaces. American Mathematical...
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    (1987), Tilings and Patterns, New York: W. H. Freeman, ISBN 0-7167-1193-1. Steven Dutch's page including many pictures of aperiodic tilings Animated...
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  • Euclidean plane and hyperbolic plane. Uniform tilings are related to the finite uniform polyhedra; these can be considered uniform tilings of the sphere...
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    Peter J. Lu and Paul J. Steinhardt suggested that girih tilings possess properties consistent with self-similar fractal quasicrystalline tilings such as Penrose...
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    Tessellation (redirect from Periodic tiling)
    and semiregular tilings with regular tiles of more than one shape and with every corner identically arranged. The patterns formed by periodic tilings...
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    and described in Tilings and patterns. The Ammann–Beenker tilings have many properties similar to the more famous Penrose tilings: They are nonperiodic,...
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    comparative overlay of this tiling and its dual) Tilings and patterns Grünbaum, Branko; Shephard, G. C. (1987). Tilings and Patterns. New York: W. H. Freeman...
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    Geoffrey C. (1986), Tilings and Patterns, New York: W. H. Freeman, ISBN 978-0-7167-1194-0, according to Dutch, Steven (2003), Aperiodic Tilings, University of...
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    from spherical tilings to Euclidean tilings to hyperbolic tilings. Hyperbolic tilings can also be divided between compact, paracompact and divergent cases...
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    subject. His monograph Tilings and patterns, coauthored with G. C. Shephard, helped to rejuvenate interest in this classic field, and has proved popular with...
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    monohedral tilings it is denoted [3.6.3.6]. It is also one of 56 possible isohedral tilings by quadrilaterals, and one of only eight tilings of the plane...
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    the 3-4-3-12 tiling is one of 20 2-uniform tilings of the Euclidean plane by regular polygons, containing regular triangles, squares, and dodecagons, arranged...
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    Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus. Grünbaum, B. and G. C. Shephard; Tilings and patterns, New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., (1987), ISBN 0-7167-1193-1...
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