Pentasia (Q2153980)

In 1993, the author ``realized that the kite-and-dart tilings could be thought of as shadows of \(3\)-dimensional chicken-wire-like meshes: if you take a rhombus with a \(72\)-degree angle and bend half of it, along the short diagonal, out of the plane not quite to vertical, the shadow of its perimeter is a Penrose kite, while if you bend it by the same amount past the vertical, the shadow is a Penrose dart.'' He showed his paper model to John H. Conway, who liked it, and who changed the construction, stating ``that the shadow idea would be even nicer if you used a rhombus with a \(60\)-degree angle (i.e., two equilateral triangles adjoined) and bent both halves out of the plane to appropriate extents. In particular, when five kites meet at a point, what you have is the shadow of the top half of an icosahedron.'' The author's own model was called ``Pentasia'' by Conway. It is the subject of a paper by \textit{R. J. Lang} and \textit{B. Hayes} [Math. Intell. 35, No. 4, 61--74 (2013; Zbl 1297.00009)] and was mentioned in several talks by Conway, none of which ever mentioned the author's name. The current note corrects the recorded history of this discovery.