Tile-transitive partial tilings of the plane (Q1261219)

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Tile-transitive partial tilings of the plane
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    Tile-transitive partial tilings of the plane (English)
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    31 August 1993
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    This paper presents the results of a computer-aided classification of periodic plane packings of congruent topological disks with a symmetry group that acts transitively on the disks (or (periodic) tile-transitive partial tilings, as they are called here.) The main tool used is the concept of Delaney-Dress symbols which is first briefly summarized and then extended from tilings to partial tilings. The Delaney-Dress symbol associated with a (partial) equivariant tiling (i.e., a tiling together with a group of its symmetries) is a graph (with 3-coloured edges, and with three integer functions defined on it) which is constructed via a certain triangulation (the chamber system) of the tiles. The main results of the paper can be summarized as follows: Partial tilings can be roughly classified with respect to the set \(T\) covered by the tiles -- they are either net-like \((T\) is connected, with bounded holes), or stripey \((T\) is the union of unbounded strips), or patchy (the connected components of \(T\) are bounded). Using a computer search (no reference to implementational details is given) the following numbers are established: In addition to the well- known 93 types of tilings, there are 1028 net-like (proper partial) tilings, 93 types of strips (combined with the known 26 periodic strip patterns) form 248 stripey tilings, and 54 types of bounded components form 204 patchy tilings (including 52 which correspond to the known discrete periodic closed disk patterns). (The basic strips and bounded components are displayed in figures.) (For the known results on tilings see \textit{B. Grünbaum} and \textit{G. C. Shephard} [Tilings and Patterns (Freeman, New York) (1987; Zbl 0601.05001)]).
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    Delaney symbol
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    classification
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    packings
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    tilings
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