Tegula -- exploring a galaxy of two-dimensional periodic tilings
Combinatorics
2020-07-22 v1 Mathematical Software
Abstract
Periodic tilings play a role in the decorative arts, in construction and in crystal structures. Combinatorial tiling theory allows the systematic generation, visualization and exploration of such tilings of the plane, sphere and hyperbolic plane, using advanced algorithms and software.Here we present a "galaxy" of tilings that consists of the set of all 2.4 billion different types of periodic tilings that have Dress complexity up to 24. We make these available in a database and provide a new program called Tegula that can be used to search and visualize such tilings. Availability: All tilings and software and are open source and available here: https://ab.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/software/tegula.
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@article{arxiv.2007.10625,
title = {Tegula -- exploring a galaxy of two-dimensional periodic tilings},
author = {Rüdiger Zeller and Olaf Delgado Friedrichs and Daniel H. Huson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10625},
year = {2020}
}