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Einstein Hat Puzzle - Interlocking Tiles

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DescriptionThis simple-looking tile has the special property of being able to tile infinitely without ever repeating its pattern!This puzzle will drive you crazy!Try and tile as large an area as possible - 2 tiles easy, 5 tiles not so hard, 20+ tiles difficult!See how long you can create a non-crossing ‘snake’ on the tilesTiles can be flipped over (same on both sides)Unique interlocking design keeps the tiles in place while you struggle to place the next tilePrint as few or many as you like - all the tiles are the same - more tiles → harder to solveIf you get stuck there are plenty of online examples of large tilings that you can use as a guideRemember there is not one solution!Background The Einstein Hat tile for aperiodic tiling of the plane. Discovered in 2022 by David Smith the Einstein Hat tile will tile the infinite plane aperiodically. See Wikipedia article here. This design of the tile is fully interlocking. By careful placement of the interlocking sections, all orientations an
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MakerWorld
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What you need to print this: Beginner Low confidence
Single piece
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Printer
FDM / FFF
File format
STL
Material
PLA
Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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