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Polyiamonds

A polyiamond is a polyform consisting of a collection of equal-sized equilateral triangles arranged with coincident sides. Polyiamonds are sometimes simply known as iamonds.

The top row of hexiamonds in the above figure are known as the bar, crook, crown, sphinx, snake, and yacht. The bottom row of 6-polyiamonds are known as the chevron, signpost, lobster, hook, hexagon, and butterfly.

The number of two-sided (i.e., can be picked up and flipped, so mirror image pieces are considered identical) polyiamonds made up of n triangles are 1, 1, 1, 3, 4, 12, 24, 66, 160, 448, ... (OEIS A000577). The number of one-sided polyiamonds composed of n triangles are 1, 1, 1, 4, 6, 19, 43, 121, ... (OEIS A006534). One of the 160 9-polyiamonds has a hole (Gardner 1984, p. 174).

Polyiamond2-Trees

The polyiamonds illustrated above are 2-trees.

PolyiamondsWithHoles

The numbers of n-polyiamonds with holes for n=9, 10, 11, ... are 1, 4, 25, 108, 450, ... (OEIS A070764; Myers), the first few of which are illustrated above.

See also

Polyabolo, Polyhex, Polyomino, Triangular Snake Graph

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References

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