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  Re: penrose tiles and sphere(180K?)  
From: Anton Sherwood
Date: 23 Jan 2001 02:00:15
Message: <3A6D2E07.761BC0BE@pobox.com>
> John VanSickle wrote:
> > A pedantic nitpick, but while the red and blue tiles are shaped
> > like those of a Penrose tiling, they are not arranged in the
> > Penrose pattern.

"Jerome M. Berger" wrote:
>         Well, according to this page:
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PenroseTiles.html they're not
> even shaped like a Penrose tiling's tiles...

You have in mind the darts-and-kites form?  Aperiodic tilings can also
be done with rhombs; see
	http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/penrose.html

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


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