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The trouble with five

by Craig Kaplan



Figure 14: A small part of a tiling produced from pentagons and rhombi via two applications of the subtitution rules in figure 13. The 
bottom diagram shows the relationships between tiles at all levels of substitution.

Figure 14: A small part of a tiling produced from pentagons and rhombi via two applications of the subtitution rules in figure 13. The bottom diagram shows the relationships between tiles at all levels of substitution.

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