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Penrose Tiles

Penrose Tiles

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Penrose Tiles

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Kites and darts that cover the plane without ever repeating. Five-fold symmetry, golden-ratio edges, and no translational grid.

Roger Penrose, 1974

Start with a sun of ten Robinson triangles and deflate. Thin and thick triangles become kites and darts; edges of length φ never line up into a repeating lattice. Five-fold symmetry is allowed here, unlike a crystal.

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Kite and dart. Pair them by matching edges and the plane fills without a repeating grid.

Penrose Tiles

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Voronoi Flow

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Truchet Tiles

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Tumbling Blocks

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Hat Tile

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