Timeline for Thinnest 2-fold coverings of the plane by congruent convex shapes
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| Mar 15, 2023 at 10:44 | comment | added | Nandakumar R | Are there convex regions which (i) do not perfectly tile the plane, (ii) cannot form a perfect 2-cover of the plane but (ii) can form a perfect 3-cover of the plane? And one can push 3 in this question to n. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 0:49 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed broken image links.
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| Oct 24, 2014 at 1:39 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Those hexagon 2-covers are pleasingly intricate, Noam! :-) | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 22:55 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | You're welcome, and thank you! I noticed later that there's a further generalization to a 2-parameter family of convex hexagons; see the new pictures. | |
| Oct 23, 2014 at 22:53 | history | edited | Noam D. Elkies | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add a two-parameter family of hexagons
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 22:00 | vote | accept | Joseph O'Rourke | ||
| Oct 14, 2014 at 22:00 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | This is an exceptionally clever 2-tiling by an irregular pentagon. And I appreciate your lucid explanation and the precisely informative figures. Thanks! | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 18:04 | history | answered | Noam D. Elkies | CC BY-SA 3.0 |