Dissection Methods for Aperiodic Tilings: From Medieval Islamic Architecture to Quasicrystals

Tiling Theory studies how one might cover the plane with various shapes. Aperiodic tilings are nonperiodic patterns that cannot be rearranged to form periodic tilings. Examples of this aperiodic symmetry are found in a variety of places from medieval Islamic architecture to 20th Century Penrose tile...

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Main Author: Tennant, Raymond (author)
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12458/247
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