Mathematical Tiling and Tessellation 
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Miki Imura
 May 15, 2025 Shared with Public group
Let’s revisit a well-studied tiling sometime — why not?
The Ammann–Beenker tiling might be one of the most underrated ones out there.
Despite sharing many of the beautiful properties we admire in the Penrose tiling, it hasn’t received nearly as much attention.
This image was generated using the cut-and-project method, and just for fun, I replaced the straight edges with arcs.
Hope you enjoy it!
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Dale Walton
While I greatly admire Ghee Beom Kim's work, I was doing curved edge tilings years ago. I agree with Miki, the concepts and technique are not his unique creation, and might easily be independently discovered and pursued by others.
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Chris M Thomasson
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Dale Walton Agreed. I was just following up on a complaint. There have been some clear rip offs here in the group in the past.
'Rik Smoody
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Chris M Thomasson Yes. When I see a repost of something we have seen before, I usually do a quick check to see if this is where I saw it, and if so, quietly remove it.
There is not a lot of profit to be made by posting here. 🙂
I don't understand why …
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Chris M Thomasson
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'Rik Smoody Thank you. :^)
Lill Kristiansen
Very nice curved. But can you post a version with straight lines as well., please? I would like to try and knit it. The 8-pointed rose is very similar to the selbu rose. A knitted selbupattern a bit more traditional is shown her https://digitaltmuse…
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'Rik Smoody
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Chris M Thomasson Give it a rest, Chris. It's possible you wanted to see prior art because you like what you see (I do). Ghee Beom Kim has been very generous by sharing his creations (as have you), but (correct me if I am wrong) has shared them freely…
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