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I think it's kinda funny that most of the tessellations are just using pentagons to make other shapes that tessellate naturally. I suppose the same could be said of most tessellations though, but it's still interesting.



That's because there are only 17 wallpaper groups (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group). Any _repeating_ pattern must match one of them (non-repeating patterns by definition do not)


Can you NOT link to mobile version? Mobile phones switch to mobile automatically, desktop version does not.


The mobile version is very readable on a desktop browser, and it's probably easier for you to edit the URL on your PC than for the poster to edit it using their phone.


...all effort being equal. And assuming, of course, that comments are read (on average) once.


Assuming that the total effort expended by the few who really dislike the mobile interface is less than fiddling with a URL on a phone, plus gratitude toward the person for taking the effort to make the post at all.


Why not just be a bro or cool girl and do the thing you wish others would do? I'm always so grateful when others post links through paywalls, so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group

Now trip the f*ck out to some badass patterns :)




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