General Interest:Fractals

This is a tiling of the plane with just two tiles, the "trilobite" and the "cross". Any such tiling must be aperiodic. The construction generalizes to any dimension Euclidean space.

How to make it: Drafted in Adobe Illustrator.

Image created: February 1995

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Created: Thu Jun 25 15:09:40 CDT 1998 --- Last modified: Thu Jun 25 15:09:40 CDT 1998