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Einstein problem solved (aperiodic monotile discovery)

Ed Pegg, Wolfram Research
Posted 2 years ago

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POSTED BY: Ed Pegg
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Many years ago I (and Tom Sibley) proved that any tiling (finite or infinite) with Penrose rhombs is 3-colorable as a map (a question raised by John Conway). And later the same was proved for Kites and Darts. So I wonder if the same is true for hats. Ed: If you send me a pile of hats I can run my 3-coloring program on it. I even made a carpet showing 3-colored rhombs.
POSTED BY: Stan Wagon

But wait! There's more!

At Hat tilings via HTPF equivalence, we've got a lot more code and patterns. For example, each hat tile cuts up a hexagon in the hexagonal grid into 2 or 3 pieces. The division orientation is either Y or upside-down Y. If you color the Y divisions red, you get the pattern below. Code for that and many other items at the link.

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POSTED BY: Ed Pegg

I didn't get a good svg from the app website, I think: ResourceFunction::usermessage : SVGImport::format: "/Users/pbarendse/Downloads/output(2).svg" does not appear to be a valid SVG file. >>
POSTED BY: Peter Barendse

Can the single tile be generated by some kind of morphing of Penrose's kite and dart?
POSTED BY: Paul Abbott
Brad Klee
Brad Klee
Posted 2 years ago

Can the single tile be generated by some kind of morphing of Penrose's kite and dart?

You could try mapping the "drafter" Triangle into Penrose triangles and hope that the angles / matching rules work out. But I would guess no because how difficult (impossible?) it would be for patterns fitting on a hexagonal grid to ever allow five-fold centers of symmetry.

As far as structural analysis is concerned, Figure 2.12 could be a good place to start. It looks a bit like this space filling tree dragon we discovered at winter school:

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In the future we'll probably get a definition of the tree structure itself, separate from definition in tiling context, but who will be the first to find it?

POSTED BY: Brad Klee

It seems from the title image here: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mathematicians-discovered-einstein-tile that the E. tile can be broken into diamond shapes, each of which could be a kite+dart. So maybe the tile could be broken into kites and darts in a way so that the aperiodicity of the E. tiling would produce aperiodicity in the kites and darts
POSTED BY: Peter Barendse
Brad Klee
Brad Klee
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