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Tiling with one of each 3D shape
Encouraged by the positive solutions to my question,
Tiling with one of each shape,
I'd like to pose the $\mathbb{R}^3$ equivalent:
Q. Is there a tiling of $\mathbb{R}^3$ by (bounded) polyhedra, one ...
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Dividing a polyhedron into two similar copies
The paper Dividing a polygon into two similar polygons proves that there are only three families of polygons that are irrep-2-tiles (can be subdivided into similar copies of the original).
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Tiling space with supertile of hypercube unfoldings
Two students in my class
asked and answered what might be a novel question.
It is well known that the cube has exactly $11$ edge-unfoldings
(or "nets"), as shown below:
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Tilings of lattice polytopes by transformations of lattice polytopes
A quasi-lattice polytope is a polytope obtained by reflections, translations, and rotations of lattice polytopes. In a tiling of a lattice polytope by quasi-lattice polytopes, are all quasi-lattice ...
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