Nonperiodic tiling
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| + | ==Rodger Penrose== | ||
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| + | Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He has received a number of prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe.[1] He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose#Works | ||
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| + | A Penrose tiling is a non-periodic tiling generated by an aperiodic set of prototiles named after Sir Roger Penrose, who investigated these sets in the 1970s. Because all tilings obtained with the Penrose tiles are non-periodic, Penrose tiles are considered aperiodic tiles. A Penrose tiling may be constructed so as to exhibit both reflection symmetry and fivefold rotational symmetry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling | ||
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Penrose Tiles http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/symmetry/penrose.htm
Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/symmetry/symmetry.htm
Rodger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He has received a number of prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe.[1] He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose#Works
A Penrose tiling is a non-periodic tiling generated by an aperiodic set of prototiles named after Sir Roger Penrose, who investigated these sets in the 1970s. Because all tilings obtained with the Penrose tiles are non-periodic, Penrose tiles are considered aperiodic tiles. A Penrose tiling may be constructed so as to exhibit both reflection symmetry and fivefold rotational symmetry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling
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Penrose Tiles. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PenroseTiles.html
Penrose tile floors. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/01/penrose_tile_floors.html#more
