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Threebolites II by Chaim Goodman-Strauss

  
This is a cluster of tiles that force aperiodicity based on inflations of the Schwarz surface and an underlying body centered lattice. The construction 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 II]

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