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  Re: penrose tiles and sphere(180K?)  
From: Anton Sherwood
Date: 28 Jul 2000 23:20:29
Message: <39824F0E.1CEDDA44@pobox.com>
Jamie Davison wrote:
> I thought that the whole point of penrose tiling was that there *was* no
> pattern, that you could fling the tiles together almost randomly and
> still get them to tesselate...

It's not periodic, but (iirc) every infinite Penrose tiling contains
every finite Penrose tiling -- *because* it is not periodic.

-- 
Anton Sherwood  --  br0### [at] p0b0xcom  --  http://ogre.nu/


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