Crystallography and the penrose pattern

Alan L. Mackay

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1982, vol. 114, issue 1, 609-613

Abstract: The Penrose pattern is a tiling of two-dimensional and of three-dimensional space by identical tiles of two kinds (acute and obtuse rhombi with α = 72° and 144° in two dimensions and acute and obtuse rhombohedra with α = 63.43° and 116.57° in three dimensions). The two-dimensional pattern is a section through that in three dimensions. When joining (or recursion) rules are prescribed, the pattern is unique and non-periodic. It has local five-fold axes and thus represents a structure outside the formalism of classical crystallography and might be designated a quasi-lattice.

Date: 1982
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378437182903594
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:114:y:1982:i:1:p:609-613

DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(82)90359-4

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().