Hypercube Unfoldings that Tile R^3 and R^2
Abstract
We show that the hypercube has a face-unfolding that tiles space, and that unfolding has an edge-unfolding that tiles the plane. So the hypercube is a "dimension-descending tiler." We also show that the hypercube cross unfolding made famous by Dali tiles space, but we leave open the question of whether or not it has an edge-unfolding that tiles the plane.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1512.02086
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv151202086D
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Computational Geometry;
- 51F;
- 52C20;
- F.2.2;
- G.2
- E-Print:
- 20 pages, 18 figures, 10 refs. Version 2: Corrected a typo, added a reference