Penrose Rhombi Stained Glass Pattern
There is an infinity of Penrose Tilings. This Penrose tiling pattern uses the rhombus. The acute angles in the rhombi are 36 and 72 degrees.
Penrose Tilings have a number of astonishing properties. One is that any finite portion of any tiling is contained an infinite number of times in every other tiling. This means that you cannot tell, by examining a piece of a tiling, which pattern you are on! Check out the even more challenging “Batman” Cartwheel pattern, too.
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For more information on Penrose tilings see Penrose’s book The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics , Oxford University Press, 1989 or go here.
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