That is, unless you go with something like a Penrose Wave Tile. Discovered by mathematician Roger Penrose, they never exactly repeat, no matter how you lay them out. [carterhoefling14] decided to ...

But Penrose, inspired by Escher (who was in turn fascinated by the intricate Islamic mosaics of the Alhambra in Spain), came up with various “non-periodic” tiling patterns, using pentagons ...

In 1974, the mathematician Penrose discovered pairs of tiles that form an infinite plane without repeating patterns. Inspired by this, Max Cooper uses a rhythm fragment of one instrument to ...