Not every simple polygon can be tiled with parallelograms. > Kannan, Sampath, and Danny Soroker. "Tiling polygons with parallelograms." *Discrete & Computational Geometry* 7, no. 2 (1992): 175-188. [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02187834). > Kenyon, Richard. "Tiling a polygon with parallelograms." *Algorithmica* 9, no. 4 (1993): 382-397. [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01228510). Here are two untilable examples from the Kannan et al. paper: [![UnTilable][1]][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/BVcKk.jpg