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An encyclopaedia of tiling patterns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Brian Wichmann
Brian Wichmann*
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I believe many people have been inspired by Grunbaum and Shephard's book on tilings and patterns. On reading the book, as a computer programmer, I thought it would be a challenge to display the tiling patterns in colour on the screen of my home computer. Not having a hard disc, I had found the storage for fractals too demanding, notwithstanding the time needed to compute the intricate patterns. Hence the idea of producing a variety of interesting patterns without such overhead was attractive.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 78 , Issue 483 , November 1994, pp. 265 - 273
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1994

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