Tilings and Patterns
by E O Harriss
Publisher: Mathematicians.org.uk 2008
Number of pages: 43
Description:
Contents: Background Material (Euclidean Space, Delone Sets, Z-modules and lattices); Tilings of the plane (Periodic, Aperiodic, Penrose Tilings, Substitution Rules and Tiling, Matching Rules); Symbolic and Geometric tilings of the line (Combinatorics of Words, Letter substitution rules, Canonical Projection Tilings and Sturmian Sequences).
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