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    Smile Penrose Tiling

    Download BobI.exe from here: http://stephencollins.net/penrose/

    Play and print to PDF. Import into your Xara application.

    S10.pdf

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    Default Re: Penrose Tiling

    One person's Penrose is...
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    Default Re: Penrose Tiling

    I downloaded the Penrose generator so that I might be able to do some interesting floor tile designs for maps, or weirdly shaped structures choosing the outline edge of a complex Penrose star design.

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    Default Re: Penrose Tiling

    Hi Folks,
    I'm a sucker for pattern makers so I brought down BobI and did some fiddling. It is good fun but ultimately I found it a bit limited in the number of iterations I could go to. My machine got up to #13 with the Skinny rhombus and #14 with the Fat rhombus. At this stage there were more than 1 million rhombii to be looked at. The autowalk feature was most fun and I reproduced most of the ones illustrated at the site. My best effort for a closed flower was one with 20,580 steps in it, which I've added here. I'm not sure that I've played with it all but it does seem to take up a fair amount so I stopped after an hour or so. cheers, Erik.Click image for larger version. 

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    Default Re: Penrose Tiling

    @EJ, my machine started to baulk after those iterations too.
    The trick is what to do with what you can generate and a little masking, object placement, moulding and folding won't go amiss.

    Acorn
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    Default Re: Penrose Tiling

    Hi Acorn,
    My initial note was really just to say that I had got it and was playing with it. Now when I get some time I'll try and get some bits into Xara and see if I can be messy. I've been in touch with the creator and he said the program is a very old and not being actively worked on. He thinks he got up to iteration 16 or 17 at the time. If I get anything worthwhile in the next few weeks I'll post them. I also noticed that there is a lot of Penrose material on the net but have not found any other general programs there. Must be some though.

    cheers, Erik

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    Default Re: Penrose Tiling

    Quote Originally Posted by Acorn View Post
    Download BobI.exe from here: http://stephencollins.net/penrose/

    Play and print to PDF. Import into your Xara application.

    S10.pdf

    Acorn
    Hi Acorn,

    As usual I was too greedy so I downloaded the penrose tiling programme. Now I want to get rid of it again but did not detect Bob on my control panel where I uninstall my programmes. I did however see the programme in another file. Not sure what to do: can I just delete the three files that make out the Bob programme?

    Thanks for your help

    Hélène

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    Hélène ,

    I could be wrong but the way I see it is that program is an exe and not an installer, so it does not write a bunch of stuff to the registry or anywhere else. That's why you can't find it.
    Larry a.k.a wizard509

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    Default Re: Penrose Tiling

    Quote Originally Posted by wizard509 View Post
    Hélène ,

    I could be wrong but the way I see it is that program is an exe and not an installer, so it does not write a bunch of stuff to the registry or anywhere else. That's why you can't find it.
    Ok! So this means I can just delete the map without having to uninstall?

    Hélène

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    Default Re: Penrose Tiling

    Yes, I think so.
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