Some generalizations of the pinwheel tiling (Q1269453)

This is a detailed study of a new class of non-periodic self-similar tilings arising from a generalization of the pinwheel tiling (Conway and Radin). The inflation is derived from dissecting a rectangular triangle into five triangles (four of which are congruent) similar to it. (The special case where all the five tiles are congruent produces the pinwheel tiling.) The properties of the resulting substitution tiling depend on the angle of the generating triangle. In general, there are triangles in infinitely many sizes occurring in infinitely many aspects (orientations). However, in countably many cases the number of sizes, or the number of aspects, is finite. Moreover, there is a single exceptional case (angle \(\pi/4\)) where both the number of sizes and the number of aspects is finite. The asymptotic behavior of aspects and sizes is related to the eigenvalues of the substitution matrix, in most cases the limiting distribution is rotationally invariant. When there are only finitely many sizes (distinct tiles), by a theorem of \textit{C. Goodman-Strauss} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 147, No. 1, 181-223 (1998)], the corresponding class of tilings can be described by a finite set of local matching rules, even though, in some of these cases, the tiles meet in infinitely many distinct ways.