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We know that tilesets that can tile the plane always admit a quasi-periodic tiling [4, 8], yet they hold many uncomputable properties [3, 11, 21, 25]. The quasi-periodicity function is one way to measure the regularity of a quasi-periodic…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-12-07 Alexis Ballier , Emmanuel Jeandel

We consider here square tilings of the plane. By extending the formalism introduced in [3] we build a correspondence between plane maps endowed with an harmonic vector and square tilings satisfying a condition of regularity. In the case of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Mathieu Dutour Sikirić

It is proved that homeomorphic images of certain two-dimensional aperiodic tilings, such as Ammann-A2 tilings, are recognizable, in both mathematical and practical senses. One implication of the results is that it is possible to search for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Louisa Barnsley , Michael Barnsley , Andrew Vince

A new family of decagonal quasiperiodic tilings are constructed by the use of generalized point substitution processes, which is a new substitution formalism developed by the author [N. Fujita, Acta Cryst. A 65, 342 (2009)]. These tilings…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nobuhisa Fujita

How many different tiles are needed at the minimum to create aperiodicity? Several tilings made of two tiles were discovered, the first one being by Penrose in the seventies. Since then, scientists discovered other aperiodic tilings made of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Vincent Van Dongen

The translational tiling problem, dated back to Wang's domino problem in the 1960s, is one of the most representative undecidable problems in the field of discrete geometry and combinatorics. Ollinger initiated the study of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

These notes derive aperiodic monotiles (arXiv:2303.10798) from a set of rhombuses with matching rules. This dual construction is used to simplify the proof of aperiodicity by considering the tiling as a colouring game on a Rhombille tiling.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-05 James Smith

To understand an aperiodic tiling (or a quasicrystal modeled on an aperiodic tiling), we construct a space of similar tilings, on which the group of translations acts naturally. This space is then an (abstract) dynamical system. Dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Lorenzo Sadun

We give a $O(n)$-time algorithm for determining whether translations of a polyomino with $n$ edges can tile the plane. The algorithm is also a $O(n)$-time algorithm for enumerating all such tilings that are also regular, and we prove that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Andrew Winslow

A group-theoretical approach to the construction of quasiperiodic tilings of a Euclidean plane, possessing five-fold symmetry, is applied. Of the infinitely many of variants of quasiperiodic partitions of the plane, possessing the dihedral…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Alexander S. Prokhoda

We identify a precise geometric relationship between: (i) certain natural pairs of irreducible reflection groups (``Coxeter pairs"); (ii) self-similar quasicrystalline patterns formed by superposing sets of 1D quasi-periodically-spaced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Latham Boyle , Paul J. Steinhardt

In 2023, two striking, nearly simultaneous, mathematical discoveries have excited their respective communities, one by Greenfeld and Tao, the other (the Hat tile) by Smith, Myers, Kaplan and Goodman-Strauss, which can both be summed up as…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Thierry Coulbois , Anahí Gajardo , Pierre Guillon , Victor Lutfalla

This paper provides a bridge between the classical tiling theory and the complex neighborhood self-assembling situations that exist in practice. The neighborhood of a position in the plane is the set of coordinates which are considered…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-12 Lila Kari , Benoît Masson

The Pegasus tiles are an aperiodic pair of tiles with "tip to tip" matching rules, first drawn in 1996. We present them here.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Chaim Goodman-Strauss

We consider tilings of Euclidean spaces by polygons or polyhedra, in particular, tilings made by a substitution process, such as the Penrose tilings of the plane. We define an isomorphism invariant related to a subgroup of rotations and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Charles Radin , Lorenzo Sadun

Tilings and tiling systems are an abstract concept that arise both as a computational model and as a dynamical system. In this paper, we characterize the sets of periods that a tiling system can produce. We prove that up to a slight…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-23 Emmanuel Jeandel , Pascal Vanier

This paper describes a recomposition of the rhombic Penrose aperiodic protoset due to Robert Ammann. We show that the three prototiles that result from the recomposition form an aperiodic protoset in their own right without adjacency rules.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Vivian Olsiewski Healey

Aperiodic tilings are non-periodic tilings characterized by local constraints. They play a key role in the proof of the undecidability of the domino problem (1964) and naturally model quasicrystals (discovered in 1982). A central question…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-04 Thomas Fernique , Mathieu Sablik

We introduce a new family of nonperiodic tilings, based on a substitution rule that generalizes the pinwheel tiling of Conway and Radin. In each tiling the tiles are similar to a single triangular prototile. In a countable number of cases,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Lorenzo Sadun

This study introduces a novel approach to composite design by employing aperiodic monotiles, shapes that cover surfaces without translational symmetry. Using a combined computational and experimental approach, we study the fracture behavior…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Jiyoung Jung , Ailin Chen , Grace X. Gu