Knight's Move Tessellations
Dan Thomasson looks at tesselations with numerous unexpected shapes traced out by knight moves.
Lego Pentominos
Eric Harshbarger. This puzzle maker says that the hard part was finding legos in enough different colors.
Livio Zucca's polyomino-covered cube
Colorful illustrations demonstrate how closed surfaces could be covered by polyominoes.
Mathforum : a pentomino problem
from the Geometry Forum. Lists the pentominoes; fold them to form a cube; play a pentomino game. (project of the month, 1995)
Mathforum : minimal domino tiling
Tiling a square without cutting it into two.(Problem of the week 826, Spring 1997)
Mathforum : Tiling rectangles from ell
Stan Wagon asks which rectangles can be tiled with an ell-tromino.
my polyomino page
Michael Reid's numerous articles on polyominoes and tilnig, with references and links.
Pentamini pentaminos pentominoes
A container of mathematical games, gadgets and software. (English/Italian)
Pentomino applet
Fill up a given area using pentomino shapes, rotating and flipping them. Three levels of difficulty.[Java].
Pentomino Applet
Rujith de Silva's applet puzzle offers games of four different sized rectangles. [Java]
Pentominoes
Expository paper by R. Bhat and A. Fletcher. Covers pre-Golomb discoveries. the triplication problem and other aspects.
Pentominos
Graphics problems, solutions (including animated GIF) and links. (English/German through main page)
Pentominos Puzzle Solver
David Eck's graphical solver applet uses recursive technique. Source code available. [Java]
Polyform spirals
Jorge Luis Mireles explains finite and infinite spirals made up of polyforms.
Polyiamonds
Mathforum. This Geometry problem of the week asks whether a six-point star can be dissected to form eight distinct hexiamonds.
Polyomino enumeration
K. S. Brown examines the number of polyominoes up to order 12 for various cases involving rotation or reflections. Equations linking the cases are proposed.
Polyomino tiling
. Joseph Myers classifies the n-ominoes up to n=15 according to how symmetrically they can tile the plane.
Polyominoes
Introduction to Tetrominoes, Pentominoes, Hexominoes, Heptominoes, Octominoes, Fixed (translation only) Polyominoes. Numerous Links.
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