On a tiling scheme from M. C. Escher (Q1378549)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1118078
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On a tiling scheme from M. C. Escher
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1118078

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    On a tiling scheme from M. C. Escher (English)
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    15 February 1998
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    Summary: Escher studied certain tilings by decorated square tiles arranged into \(2\times 2\) supertiles which are copied and translated to fill the plane. It is found that there are exactly 154 such tilings, if reflections of the tiles are allowed. Illustrations of all of them are given.
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