Icosahedral Tiling with Dodecahedral Structures
Abstract
Icosahedron and dodecahedron can be dissected into tetrahedral tiles projected from 3D-facets of the Delone polytopes representing the deep and shallow holes of the root lattice D6. The six fundamental tiles of tetrahedra of edge lengths 1 and τ are assembled into four composite tiles whose faces are normal to the 5-fold axes of the icosahedral group. The 3D Euclidean space is tiled face-to-face by the composite tiles with an inflation factor τ generated by an inflation matrix. The aperiodic tiling is a generalization of the Tubingen triangular tiling in 2-dimensions for the faces of the tiles are made of Robinson triangles. Certain combinations of the tiles constitute dodecahedra with edge lengths of 1 and the golden ratio τ=(1+(5))/2.
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