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The hat AKA einstein is an aperiodic monotile which is really cool: maths.cam.ac.uk/features/tip-h…

Based on what I had known of Penrose's tilings I thought two was the minimum we could get but apparently that is not the case.

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Picture of the hat which is really hard to describe
A patch of an aperiodic tiling by hats. Image by David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss, CC BY 4.0 Deed

A tip of the hat: celebrating the aperiodic monotile discovery | Features: Faculty Insights

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Gene Boggs
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Here's my take on it, when the tile was written about on SciAm. 😀

It's mostly about getting a proper grid happening with #Perl.

ology.github.io/2023/04/30/of-…

Of Hexagons, Kites and Tiles - Gene Boggs

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@ology SVG is so horribly modern and fashionable - seems to me like a perfect place to write some PostScript!
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