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Aperiodic Monotile

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Image of a T-Shirt featuring Some colourful aperiodic monotiles in a pattern.
Some colourful aperiodic monotiles in a pattern.

An image of a single aperiodic monotile.

An aperiodic monotile is a single shape, like a puzzle piece, that can make a non-repeating pattern forever.

This shape, called the HAT was discovered early in 2023.

This is a huge discovery in math – the last discovery, a 2 tile version, was discovered in the 70’s.

Here’s an article about it:

Some very interesting discussion about this is here, including the about-to-be published paper:
discourse.mcneel.com/t/an-aper

Here’s a generator here to make your own:

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