Conway's pinwheel tiling

32 points3 comments3 days ago
ttoinou

Love this tiling ! So beautiful

I made a few pinwheel tilings visualisation on shadertoy https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=tag%3Dpinwheel including a few original use of pinwheel to simulate a "snake" walking inside the tiling https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4sSBRy . and this one gets really trippy if you wait a few minutes there are interferences patterns in the colors that become really crazy https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsSfWm

xvedejas

How could one prove this is aperiodic? I'm guessing maybe you can prove that some or most of the triangles have globally unique rotations regardless of N?

tromp

The bottom of my home page has this as a PostScript signature:

    %!PS                           % -John Tromp http://tromp.github.io/
    /t{dup 1 sub gsave dup 0 gt{[.4 .2 -.2 .4 .4 .2]concat t currentgray
    .8 mul .2 add setgray -1 1 scale t -1 2 translate t 1 -1 scale t[0 1
    1 0 0 2]concat t pop}{0 moveto 1 0 lineto 0 2 lineto closepath clip
    fill}ifelse grestore}def 10 10 translate 600 600 scale 5 t showpage
which outputs this pinwheel tiling https://tromp.github.io/img/pinwheel.pdf