Saturday, October 20, 2018

[udugflms] Aperiodic densest packing

Is there a shape whose densest packing of the plane is aperiodic?  This is a variation of the einstein problem of tiling; however, unlike tiling, we don't require the packing to completely cover the plane.  An einstein tile would of course solve this problem, as completely covering the plane would be the tile's densest packing.

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