Penrose Tiling

A substitution tiling discovered in 1973 by R. Penrose. This applet shows the "Rhomb" version: created with GeoGebra, it generates nonperiodic tilings by "inflating" steps. See also http://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/substitution_rules/penrose_rhomb

 

Gaetano Di Caprio

 
Resource Type
Activity
Tags
tiling 
Target Group (Age)
3 – 19+
Language
English
 
 
 
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