Surely you didn’t expect news about aperiodic tilings to appear at regular intervals? You know how it is – you wait ages for a new aperiodic monotile discovery to come along, then two come in quick succession.
In March, we covered the discovery of an aperiodic monotile. The team of authors behind that discovery have been continuing their work and this week have an even bigger announcement.
Actual aperiodicity news on The Aperiodical!
This is probably the biggest aperiodicity news we’ll ever cover here: David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss have produced a single shape which tiles the plane, and can’t be arranged to have translational symmetry.
And it’s so simple!
Aperiodicity fans, Neil and Heath need your help! Help in the form of money.
Don’t worry, you’ll get something cool out of it – a set of dart/kite Penrose tiling fridge magnets.
There isn’t much more to it than that. It’s a pretty simple idea, they’re just asking for $5000 to get metal dies made so they can cut them out, hence the Kickstarter. At $5 for a pack of 50 fridge magnets, they’re pretty cheap too.
So have a look, and maybe give these chaps some simoleans if you like the idea.
Penrose Magnets on Kickstarter
Good news, everyone! I literally jumped out of my seat and punched the air when I saw this story. It’s as if this site was set up specifically to report on this exact piece of news.