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Penrose Tiles and Aperiodic Tessellations Penrose tilings are a remarkable example of aperiodic, semi-regular tessellations1. What follows is an excerpt from an article on Penrose tilings by Martin Gardner,
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Document Date: 2012-04-04 17:08:16

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John Horton Conway / Dart Long / Martin Gardner / Solomon W. Golomb / Robert Ammann / Robert Berger / Michael Goldberg / Donald Knuth / Hao Wang / Roger Penrose / M. C. Escher / Heinz Voderberg / /

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