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Patterns & Tiling

How order arises, repeats, and sometimes refuses to. From random scatter to Voronoi cells, tilings, the seventeen wallpaper groups, and a shape discovered in 2023 that tiles the plane and never repeats.

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i.
Randomness & Sampling
Random isn't even.
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ii.
Voronoi & Delaunay
Carved by nearness.
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iii.
Packing & Phyllotaxis
How a sunflower counts.
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iv.
Tessellation
Shapes that fill a world with no gaps.
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v.
Symmetry & Wallpaper Groups
Seventeen ways to repeat.
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vi.
Penrose Tilings
The pattern that never repeats.
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Bonus
The Hat
One tile. No repeats. The 2023 aperiodic monotile.
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