Prototile
Basic shape(s) used in a tessellation
This form of the
aperiodic
Penrose tiling
has two prototiles, a thick
rhombus
(shown blue in the figure) and a thin rhombus (green).
In
mathematics
, a
prototile
is one of the shapes of a tile in a
tessellation
.
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Cederberg, Judith N. (2001),
A Course in Modern Geometries
,
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
(2nd ed.), Springer-Verlag, p. 174,
ISBN
978-0-387-98972-3
.