An Optimal Algorithm for Tiling the Plane with a Translated Polyomino

Abstract

We give a O(n)-time algorithm for determining whether translations of a polyomino with n edges can tile the plane. The algorithm is also a O(n)-time algorithm for enumerating all such tilings that are also regular, and we prove that at most (n) such tilings exist.

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