Penrose Tiles from Eric Wiesstein's World of Mathematics
Java Kali-- an interactive program for making patterns with the 17 wallpaper groups
The Seventeen Wallpaper Groups in traditional Japanese patterns
Geometry Junkyard: Tiling tiling links
Geometry Junkyard: Penrose Tiling Penrose tiling links
Peanut Software by Rick Parris. Windows freeware programs. The Winlab program includes Penrose tilers
Hans Kuiper's artistic wallpaper images Also, Hans is the author and source for Spiegelkenstenaar, a Windows program for making pictures with the 17 symmetry groups. I used his program to make many of my images.
Escher Web Sketch Java program for drawing pictures with the 17 wallpaper groups
Penrose Tiling Generator A program called Bob, which will inflate rhombic Penrose tilings, and more
Escherization Technical details behind the creation of Escher-like tesselations
14 types of convex pentagons that tile the plane
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