Marjorie Rice and Her Pentagonal Tilings

Year: 2018 Authors: Doris Schattschneider

Core claim

Marjorie Rice’s hand-built combinatorial search produced multiple new convex pentagon tilings, including a “versatile” tiling later installed as an architectural pavement.

Topics

convex pentagon tilings, combinatorial search, amateur mathematics, block-transitive tilings, artistic tessellations

Domains

geometry, tiling theory, combinatorics, isohedral tilings, aperiodic tilings, tessellation, architectural paving, mathematical art

Methods

symbolic labeling, manual sketching, combinatorial enumeration, case analysis, computer output review

Media

glazed ceramic tiles, stone tiles, hand-drawn sketches, printed combinatorial output

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