A Group Activity to Build an Aperiodic Spectre Tiling

Year: 2024 Authors: Scott Vorthmann; Shiying Dong; Chaim Goodman-Strauss

Core claim

A hands-on, scalable classroom activity can make the Spectre substitution tiling intuitive through repeated construction of supertiles.

Topics

aperiodic tilings, substitution rules, group activity, supertile construction

Domains

tiling theory, geometry, aperiodic order, paper craft, educational design, visual instruction

Methods

manual assembly, recursive substitution, template copying, stacked alignment

Media

paper tiles, tape, pencil marks, die cutter

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