The Trouble with Five

Sometime simple things are the most elegant/difficult, and this one is a such problem. Craig Kaplan, assistant professor in the CG Lab at the University of Waterloo examines “Is it possible to find a set of shapes with five-fold symmetry that together will tile the plane?”. Sounds easy, but click to read more why actually it is not.

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