Meaning of monotile | Babel Free

Definitions

A prototile tiling monohedrally; any shape able to completely tile some space on its own (allowing for translation, rotation, and reflection).

Examples

“In the following section we will describe families of tilings by a curious three-dimensional aperiodic monotile whose matching rule — for some values of its parameter — is weak but not strong.”

“And I am sorry I never delivered on the four-dimensional Poultry design. It turns out John Horton Conway found four-dimensional and five-dimensional aperiodic monotiles sixty years ago, but it's not too well documented.”

“This naturally led to serious rumination about the possible existence of a single tile, or monotile, that forces non-periodic global structure.”

“An aperiodic monotile never repeats a formation, no matter how long the pattern.”

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