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 Penrose Tilings Summary
1,084 words, approx. 4 pages Penrose tilings constitute a class of non-periodic tilings of the plane. A tiling of the plane, as the name suggests, is a covering of the entire plane by shapes (tiles), no two of which overlap. A tiling can have almost any imaginable form, but the... summary from source:
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A Penrose tiling is a nonperiodic tiling generated by an aperiodic set of prototiles named after Roger Penrose, who investigated these sets in the 1970's. All tilings obtained with the Penrose tiles being non periodic, Penrose tilings are commonly, but... 
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 The Economist (US) Many-sided Penrose. (Dr. Roger Penrose)
09/17/1988: 643 words, approx. 2 pages A FLOOR can be covered with a regular pattern of squares: indeed many are. The same goes for equilateral triangles and regular hexagons. But no surface can be covered with a set of pentagons all of the same size. The impossibility of a... summary from source:
The Independent - London Obituary: Harald Penrose
09/11/1996: 1,043 words, approx. 4 pages Harald Penrose was one of the British aviation industry's most respected test pilots. His appointment in 1931 as chief test pilot at Westland Aircraft began a 22-year labour of love: he made the initial test flights on all the subsequent Westland types, notably...
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