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A Family of Non-Periodic Tilings, Describable Using Elementary Tools

jameshart

Someone needs to get this into the hands of a ceramic tile manufacturer or a manufacturer of pavers. These are some of the most immediately aesthetically useful tile shapes mathematics has produced since the hexagon.

ThalesX

Ever since those Einstein tiles I've been dreaming about making a company that does these kind of fancy tiling.

noqc

>aesthetically useful

jameshart

Yes?

Useful for making aesthetically pleasing things.

aaron695

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0y

"The pattern shown in Figure 5(b) was originally presented by Jan Sallmann-Räder in a social media post"

this seems to be said post: https://www.facebook.com/share/1DJu7tSjKq/

birn559

Fun fact: last part of his name "Räder" is a German word that translate to "wheels" which I find weirdly fitting.

joshu

yeah, miki also posts in https://www.facebook.com/groups/tiling as well. i've been following this for a few weeks

tocs3

So, how do these tiles differ from other non periodic tiling? I have looked at but not read the paper. It could be a little over my head.

joshu

Full title: A Family of Non-Periodic Tilings, Describable Using Elementary Tools and Exhibiting a New Kind of Structural Regularity

This is Miki Imura’s spiral tesselation.