Penrose Pentagon Boat Star

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One manifestation of the famous Penrose tilings. In fact, this is the first manifestation found by Penrose, the Penrose rhomb, the Penrose kite-dart and the Robinson triangle tilings are refinements of this one. (You may also click ‘Penrose’ below ‘MLD-class’ above to see the others.) Their properties are discussed on the page Penrose rhomb. For a more detailed discussion see [GS87] .

Substitution Rule

Rule Penrose Pentagon Boat Star

Patch

Patch Penrose Pentagon Boat Star download vectorformat Penrose Pentagon Boat Star

References

[GS87]
Grünbaum, B and Shephard, G.C.
Tilings and Patterns
W.H. Freeman 1987, MR0857454