A Penrose tiling Quilt
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A Penrose tiling Quilt
My neighbor recently said he was going to tile his floor with the Penrose pattern. After he described it I realized it would make a beautiful quilt.
I searched Google and found a picture of a quilt but not really a pattern to buy or use.
Has any one on the board her done a Penrose pattern quilt. It is based on a pentagon with two different rectangles with corners at 72 degree and 108 degree angles. The second one is 36 degrees and 144 degrees. The sides of the rectangles are equal so they all fit together.
Thanks for any help you can provide. Would love to try it. I may just cut myself some templates and dive in to sewing.
Ethel
I searched Google and found a picture of a quilt but not really a pattern to buy or use.
Has any one on the board her done a Penrose pattern quilt. It is based on a pentagon with two different rectangles with corners at 72 degree and 108 degree angles. The second one is 36 degrees and 144 degrees. The sides of the rectangles are equal so they all fit together.
Thanks for any help you can provide. Would love to try it. I may just cut myself some templates and dive in to sewing.
Ethel
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Here is another view of the Penrose Tiling that shows the angles of the two rectangles http://calculus-geometry.hubpages.co...Quilt-Patterns
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Here is another view of the Penrose Tiling that shows the angles of the two rectangles http://calculus-geometry.hubpages.co...Quilt-Patterns
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Other resources for Penrose Tilings.
From The Geometry Junkyard, a list of Penrose Tiling websites.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/penrose.html
From MathWorld, another list of resources.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PenroseTiles.html
A downloadable Penrose Tiling generator.
http://www.stephencollins.net/Penrose/Default.aspx
From The Geometry Junkyard, a list of Penrose Tiling websites.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/penrose.html
From MathWorld, another list of resources.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PenroseTiles.html
A downloadable Penrose Tiling generator.
http://www.stephencollins.net/Penrose/Default.aspx
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