Special Topics:Tilings

All these squares are congruent. Yes, its true, by tautology, because we can define our space of congruences ourselves. This is a substitution tiling, using these weird congruences. Amazingly, there are matching rules on these tiles, in this strange space, so that ANY tiling with these tiles satisfying the matching rules looks basically like this.

How to make it: MacPaint, of all things.

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Created: Thu Jun 25 15:09:39 CDT 1998 --- Last modified: Thu Jun 25 15:09:39 CDT 1998