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How can one construct a four-coloring of a tiling of the plane with Smith, MeyersMyers, Kaplan, and Goodman-Strauss's aperiodic monotile?

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How can one construct a four-coloring of a tiling of the plane with Smith, Meyers, Kaplan, and Goodman-Strauss's aperiodic monotile?

This is motivated by the new paper of Smith, Myers, Kaplan, and Goodman-Strauss, wherein they define the existence of an aperiodic monotile. Clearly their tiling is not three-colorable, so we have from Appel and Haken (1977) that its chromatic number is 4. What is not clear to me, however, is how one could algorithmically construct such a coloring. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!