Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Take-aparts and put-togethers
Patent
1995-05-16
1996-05-28
Thomas, Alexander S.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Take-aparts and put-togethers
428 16, 428 44, 428 47, 428 49, 428 51, 428 80, B44C 128
Patent
active
055203884
ABSTRACT:
Single-member sets of zoomorphic tiles, in which any single tile, if duplicated, can tile the plane in periodic ways, or, with duplicates of its mirror image, in either periodic or non periodic ways, and which can also form tilings of the plane in conjunction with duplicates of any other appropriately sized but differently shaped embodiment or embodiments of the invention. The diverse and variable arrangements show vertices at which 3, 4, 5, and 6 tiles meet. These tiles, tilings, patches and rosettes of tiles may be used in puzzles, games and other recreations, for teaching certain aspects of geometry, for various purposes in conjunction with computers, for the decoration of fabrics or other surfaces, for the shape of food items such as cookies, or for other uses to which tiles or tilings may be put.
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"Escher and The Visual Representation of Mathematical Ideas" in M. C. Escher: Art and Science, by R. Penrose, H.S.M. Coxeter et al. eds. North-Holland, Dec. 1986.
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