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Penrose Tiling (en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by mmathias 2459 days ago
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I like how mosques from 1200 have mosaics made with what look like 5-way quasisymmetric aperiodic tilings.

But (and I am not clear on how this is possible) it appears that a large enough conglomeration of these tiles can be itself a wholly periodic tile, and is, on the selfsame mosques.