#monotiles — Public Fediverse posts

👒🔍📐 Here comes Nicols Hatcher, the self-proclaimed "physicist by soul," to dazzle us with a mind-numbingly riveting tale of shapes and #algorithms. Get ready to be blown away by the exhilarating world of #monotiles and SAT solvers—because that's exactly what your weekend was missing! 💤🎉
https://www.nhatcher.com/post/on-hats-and-sats/ #physicist #SATsolvers #weekendreads #HackerNews #ngated

👒🔍📐 Here comes Nicols Hatcher, the self-proclaimed "physicist by soul," to dazzle us with a mind-numbingly riveting tale of shapes and #algorithms. Get ready to be blown away by the exhilarating world of #monotiles and SAT solvers—because that's exactly what your weekend was missing! 💤🎉
https://www.nhatcher.com/post/on-hats-and-sats/ #physicist #SATsolvers #weekendreads #HackerNews #ngated

If I had known that you could buy a set of #aperiodic #monotiles on etsy, I sure would have planned my holiday gift purchases differently.

(for reals a very fun article...)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-mathematicians-search-for-the-mysterious-einstein-tile/

If I had known that you could buy a set of #aperiodic #monotiles on etsy, I sure would have planned my holiday gift purchases differently.

(for reals a very fun article...)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-mathematicians-search-for-the-mysterious-einstein-tile/

Day 3 #lasercutting #monotiles #einstein_tile hat

Day 3 #lasercutting #monotiles #einstein_tile hat

Finally got around to lasercutting some #monotiles and now some highschool students are playing with them 😊

I had the file ready for a long time and I forgotten where I got the vine pattern for the engraving. If anyone knows who I have to credit, let me know! #math

Finally got around to lasercutting some #monotiles and now some highschool students are playing with them 😊

I had the file ready for a long time and I forgotten where I got the vine pattern for the engraving. If anyone knows who I have to credit, let me know! #math

Many chains of #monotiles occur in this tiling (image from p.11 of arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798)

Many chains of #monotiles occur in this tiling (image from p.11 of arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798)

printing up some o' them sexy new #monotiles. gonna try to come up with some fun aperiodic tiling games to play with them!

read more about the shape in this post by @csk - https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/110058791736888417

printing up some o' them sexy new #monotiles. gonna try to come up with some fun aperiodic tiling games to play with them!

read more about the shape in this post by @csk - https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/110058791736888417

Seriously cool. An aperiodic monotile. It's both a mathematical breakthrough and a great desktop background at the same time. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/ #mathematics #topology #tiling #monotiles