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BP344 Shape can tile itself vs. shape cannot tile itself.
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Left examples are sometimes called "rep-tiles."


The tiles all must be the same size. More specifically, all left examples can tile themselves only using scaled down and rotated versions of themselves with all tiles the same size. Right examples cannot tile themselves using scaled down rotated versions of themselves or even reflected versions of themselves with all tiles the same size.


Without the puzzle piece-like shape EX4120 on the right side the current examples also allow the solution "shape can tile with itself so as to create a parallelogram vs. shape cannot tile with itself so as to create a parallelogram."

CROSSREFS

See BP532 for a version with fractals.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP339 BP340 BP341 BP342 BP343  *  BP345 BP346 BP347 BP348 BP349

EXAMPLE

Go to https://oebp.org/files/yet.png for an illustration of how some left-sorted shapes tile themselves.

KEYWORD

hard, precise, notso, unstable, math, hardsort, creativeexamples, proofsrequired, perfect, traditional

CONCEPT recursion (info | search),
self-reference (info | search),
tiling (info | search),
imagined_shape (info | search),
imagined_entity (info | search)

WORLD

shape [smaller | same | bigger]

AUTHOR

Aaron David Fairbanks

BP860 Finitely many copies of the shape can be arranged such that they are locked together vs. not so.
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CROSSREFS

This is a generalisation of BP861.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP855 BP856 BP857 BP858 BP859  *  BP861 BP862 BP863 BP864 BP865

KEYWORD

hard, nice, stub, precise, stretch, unstable, hardsort, challenge, creativeexamples, perfect, pixelperfect

CONCEPT tiling (info | search)

WORLD

fill_shape [smaller | same | bigger]

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

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