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Special Topics:Tilings

Threebolites I by Chaim Goodman-Strauss

  
Any tiling with these three tiles must be aperiodic. The construction is based on inflations of the Schwarz surface and an underlying body centered lattice, and generalizes to all dimensions greater than one. For fuller description, see Goodman-Strauss' papers.

How to make it: Drafted and ray-traced in SoftImage.

Image created: April 1995

[Threebolites I]

Copyright © April 1995 by The Geometry Center, Univerity of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
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