On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 10:13:30PM +0100, Bob W scripsit: > [...] > He won a legal battle a few years ago against a toilet paper manufacturer > who used a Penrose tiling on their paper to make it less bulky when rolled. > They were judged to have stolen his idea, but I can't help thinking how > wonderful it would be if some junior bogroll designer had come up with the > same idea...
I seem to recall that there are some medieval mosques with tiling patterns that use Penrose tiling, so someone seems to have managed it empirically. (At least; if they published back then, it is not known to survive.) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
