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My Polyomino Page
Michael Reid's numerous articles on polyominoes and tilnig, with references and links.
http://www.math.ucf.edu/~reid/Polyomino/index.html
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Equilateral Pentagons
Jorge Luis Mireles Jasso investigates these polygons and dissects various polyominos into them. Animations show cases of infinite solutions.
http://www.geocities.com/jorgeluismireles/equilaterals/
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Pentominoes
Expository paper by R. Bhat and A. Fletcher. Covers pre-Golomb discoveries. the triplication problem and other aspects.
http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/pentos.htm
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Rectifiable Polyomino
Karl Dahlke explains and demonstrates tiling. Includes C-program source.
http://www.eklhad.net/polyomino/
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Packing Shapes
Erich Friedman's Introduction to a variety of packing and tiling problems.
http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/packing.html
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Harold McIntosh's Flexagon Papers
Including copies of the original 1962 Conrad-Hartline papers. Abstract, html-pages, or .pdf documents.
http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~mcintosh/oldweb/pflexagon.html
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Six Squares Problem
This Geometry Forum problem of the week asks for the number of different hexominoes, and for how many of them can be folded into a cube.
http://mathforum.org/pow/solution22.html
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Flexagons
Conrad and Hartline's 1962 article on Flexagons.
http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~mcintosh/comun/flexagon/flexagon.html
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Gerard's Pentomino Page
Illustrates the 12 shapes. symmetrical combinations.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/pentomino.html
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Golygons
Harry J. Smith's explains polyominoes with consecutive integer side lengths.
http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/Golygons/
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