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| title | emoji | summary |
|---|---|---|
| Tiles | 🔲 | Shapes that fit together to create an infinite pattern. |
Aperiodic monotiles
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2023 was a good year for tiling! The Einstein hat and Sprectre aperiodic monotiles were discovered and documented. These are special because they've been proven to never repeat. There's something really quite wonderful about that!
I've designed 3D-printed cookie cutters that could make ceramic tiles with these, but I've not reached out to my local potters to ask for some time to make them — and I haven't figured out the 'rules' for placing a tile next to others, some placings definitely end up making tilings that can't be completed.
Mosaics
I've been toying with the idea of creating ceramic tiles with glazes specially chosen/mixed to have levels of reflectivity to sodium light at λ = ~589 nm that are different to their white/solar light grayscale mapping.
This would allow me to make a day/night split mosaic; in the day the full-colour mosaic would be of one picture, but by night the street lights' singular frequency lamps (if I can find anywhere that still uses sodium lamps!) would create a different grayscale image that would jump out!