The “Batman” Cartwheel Stained Glass Pattern
I would categorize this in the “Even More Challenging Projects” section, not because of the complexity of the shapes, which are very straight-forward, but because of the sheer number of the pieces and the difficulty of keeping each piece in the proper order when they look so much alike. It can be a challenge to cut multiple pieces of the same shape and make them all exactly the same, so it is important to keep each piece in the correct location.
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This pattern is based on Penrose Tilings. (see the Penrose Rhombi pattern for another example of this.) As I mentioned in that post: 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!
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.
Good luck with this piece!
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