Tilings Encyclopedia | Joan M. Taylor

This Wanderer tiling is the first of an infinite series of substitution tilings by Joan Taylor based on paper-folding sequences. It uses a single square tile with four distinct rotations and two distinct reflections. Here we use colours to distinguish left-handed (brown) from right-handed (white) tiles. In the substitution rule the orientation of the tiles is indicated by a line in the interior of the tiles. In the large patch below these lines and all edges are omitted since the interesting feature are the patterns produced by white resp.

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Wanderer (rotations)

This Wanderer tiling is one in an infinite series of substitution tilings by Joan Taylor based on paper-folding sequences. It uses a single square tile with four distinct rotations and two distinct reflections. Here we use colours to distinguish vertical (blue) from horizontal (ochre) tiles. In the substitution rule the orientation of the tiles is indicated by a line in the interior of the tiles, the chirality (left-handed vs right-handed) is indicated by a point.

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Hexagonal Aperiodic Monotile

In 2009 Joan Taylor (Burnie, Tasmania) found a decoration of the hexagon, which - together with few local matching rules - allows only aperiodic tilings of the plane. This is certainly the best example of an aperiodic monotile we have today. This decorated hexagonal tile, together with the local matching rule, is shown in Fig 1 of a joint paper by J. Socolar and J. Taylor: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.4279v2. It contains also a non-decorated version of the prototile, but then the prototile is not longer a connected set.

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