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Revision as of 12:23, 24 September 2013
Penrose Tiling
By Joshua John Clark, Daniel Kerstiens, Jason Piercy, and Caleb Rouleau
Overview of Penrose Tiling
Example:
Artist: Urs Schmid
Photo by: Urs Schmid
Date: drawn in 1995
Who is Roger Penrose?
1. Oxford professor 2. PhD from Cambridge
Definition of a non-periodic
Symmetries: local and global
1. Rotational 2. Reflectional 3. Relation to golden ratio
Rules for construction
1. Matching rules 2. Substitution tiling
Other tilings
