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Re:A Family of Non-Periodic Tilings, Describable Using Eleme... by 0y on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @06:07PM (#44241990)
"The pattern shown in Figure 5(b) was originally presented by Jan Sallmann-Räder in a social media post"

this seems to be said post: https://www.facebook.com/share/1DJu7tSjKq/

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Re:A Family of Non-Periodic Tilings, Describable Using Eleme... by joshu on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:11PM (#44242527)
yeah, miki also posts in https://www.facebook.com/groups/tiling as well. i've been following this for a few weeks
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Re:A Family of Non-Periodic Tilings, Describable Using Eleme... by birn559 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:38AM (#44254815)
Fun fact: last part of his name "Räder" is a German word that translate to "wheels" which I find weirdly fitting.
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Re:A Family of Non-Periodic Tilings, Describable Using Eleme... by ahazred8ta on Sunday June 15, 2025 @10:47PM (#44286269)
Correct me if I'm wrong, some of these patterns don't seem to be nonperiodic. The tiling within the wedge-shaped regions is repetitive, and then the regions just fit together with an irregular boundary.
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