The nonrepeating Smith hat tile created twisting, pinwheel-like light patterns that ordinary quasicrystals do not produce.
Scientists carved a 13-sided shape called an "einstein" into a chip and discovered that it steers light in ways no other ...
Discovered by an amateur mathematician in 2022, this strange construct can tile an infinite surface without repeating. But ...
The “hat” tile is a mathematical wonder. Discovered by amateur mathematician David Smith in 2022, it can be used to cover every square inch of an endless bathroom floor (or any other surface) ...
Scientists at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo in ...