Prototile

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.[1]

  1. ^ 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.