Penrose Tiling
ooh, very pretty picture!
It's quilted for softness:
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/july97/departments/commentary/commentary.html
Tiling is an interesting field. "Tesselation", the study of "repeated geometric designs that cover a plane without gaps or overlaps".
There were 9 known tesselations of "convex polygons", when Martin Gardener, in Scientific American, posed the question of whether any other tesselations could be found.
A San Diego housewife, Marjorie Rice, with only a single high school mathematics course, proceeded to find four more tesselations using convex polygons, She said it "became a hobby" for her.
It's not known if there are any others to be found. Here's a list, with drawings, of "The 14 Different Types of Convex Pentagons that Tile the Plane":
drawings
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Penrose Tiling
- sally mckay 1-08-2005 1:32 am
ooh, very pretty picture!
- leslie (guest) 1-09-2005 3:10 pm
- rob (guest) 1-09-2005 6:15 pm
It's quilted for softness:
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/july97/departments/commentary/commentary.html
- rob (guest) 1-09-2005 6:16 pm
Tiling is an interesting field. "Tesselation", the study of "repeated geometric designs that cover a plane without gaps or overlaps".
There were 9 known tesselations of "convex polygons", when Martin Gardener, in Scientific American, posed the question of whether any other tesselations could be found.
A San Diego housewife, Marjorie Rice, with only a single high school mathematics course, proceeded to find four more tesselations using convex polygons, She said it "became a hobby" for her.
It's not known if there are any others to be found. Here's a list, with drawings, of "The 14 Different Types of Convex Pentagons that Tile the Plane":
- rick (guest) 1-18-2005 10:00 am
drawings
- mark 3-28-2005 6:33 am