We made a new puzzle based on the Spectre tile, the aperiodic monotile discovered earlier this year by @Chaimgoodmanstrauss, @csk, and others. It is a set of 111 tiles with a truchet-style pattern printed on them
Silly #Geometry#Poll. If you had to pick one of these regular polygons, which one would it be? I'll try to make a pretty #Tiling based on the responses.
(FWIW the whole screen is a visually loud set of tessellated hugs gently moving, and if you swipe them around they can end up moving relatively fast; if you've got a delicate head you might not want to click)
The Faience Corridor of Glasgow City Chambers. In a building filled with stunning interior architecture, this was the part that made my jaw drop the most. Ten feet wide and one hundred feet long, every inch of its walls and domed ceilings are adorned with glazed decorative ceramic tiles.
The term 'Wally Close' is one you'll commonly hear in Glasgow. It refers to the communal stairwell of a tenement building, known as a Close, which has been lined with dectorative ceramic tiles. Wally is a Scots word for anything made from china which has been in use since at least the 1800s. This usage is itself derived from an older one meaning strong beatuiful, fine or excellent. So, Wally Close literally means a beautiful tiled communal stairwell.
Today was a great day for photographing tenement tiles but not much else, so here's some rather gorgeous Art Nouveau ones from a close in the Langside area of Glasgow.
There are few things which beats a wally close for making a great first impression. This one is in the Hyndland area of Glasgow. For those who don't know, a wally close is the communal entrance to a tenement which is lined with tiles, and often beautifully crafted ones.
I have a question about the aperiodic spectre tile (or the hat/turtle).
I know that the proof of aperiodicity works by showing that the tiles must fit together in a hierarchical structure that eventually repeats itself at a larger scale. But the larger units aren't literally scaled copies of the spectre. I also know that there is some freedom as to how you draw the edges of the spectre.
Is there a way you can draw the edges that allows you to literally use spectres to cover a larger copy of themselves? If so, is this way of doing it unique?
There seems no end to the variety of beautiful tiling in the tenements of Glasgow. This was a design I came across today in a close in Yorkhill. It's repeated all the way up the stairs.