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Blue and white - 2

More blue and white china, these fragments all fished out of a Scottish loch which seems to have been used as a convenient dumping ground for the local "big hoose" in bygone days. But they tie in nicely with something called Penrose Tiling which I'd never heard of until I read a reference to it in The Debt to Pleasure and then found this rather lovely (blue and white) explanatory video.

12 April 2010 in Themes | Permalink

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How nice to see a link to mathematics back again on Cornflower. I thought you might be interested to see an ancient Islamic example of Penrose tiling. I seem to remember doilies making a brief appearence sometime back (and I was probably very sniffy about them) so to make up here is an example of a Penrose version. Finally, you should be placing your coffee cup on that doilie which, naturally, is now resting upon this coffee table!

Posted by: Dark Puss | 12 April 2010 at 11:12 AM

Mathematics, doilies, broken crockery - all life is here!
Thankyou for those links.

Posted by: Cornflower | 12 April 2010 at 11:16 AM

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