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Isohedral Tiling


An isohedral tiling is a monohedral tiling whose symmetry group has a transitive group action on its tiles. Let S(T) be the symmetry group of a tiling T. The transitivity class of a tile t consists of all tiles to which t can be mapped by an element of S(T). If T has k such transitivity classes, then T is k-isohedral. Thus an isohedral tiling is 1-isohedral. Berglund (1993) gives examples of k-isohedral tilings for k=1, 2, and 4.

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The numbers of polyominoes with n cells that admit a tiling of the plane by 180 degrees rotation but not by translation are 3, 11, 60, 199, 748, ... for n=5, 6, 7, ... (OEIS A075201). Examples are illustrated above (Myers).

The numbers of polyominoes with n cells that admit an isohedral tiling without additional restriction are 1, 1, 2, 5, 12, 35, 104, ... for n=1, 2, ... (OEIS A075205). These counts identify polyominoes related by rotation or reflection (Myers).


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References

Berglund, J. "Is There a k-Anisohedral Tile for k>=5?" Amer. Math. Monthly 100, 585-588, 1993.Grünbaum, B. and Shephard, G. C. "The 81 Types of Isohedral Tilings of the Plane." Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 82, 177-196, 1977.Keating, K. and Vince, A. "Isohedral Polyomino Tiling of the Plane." Disc. Comput. Geom. 21, 615-630, 1999.Myers, J. "Polyomino Tiling." https://www.polyomino.org.uk/mathematics/polyform-tiling/.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A075201 and A075205 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Isohedral Tiling." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/IsohedralTiling.html

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