Penrose Tiling with Defects
P3 rhomb tiling — matching-rule violations shown in red, explore quasicrystalline disorder
Controls
Defect Rate:
5
%
Inflation Level:
4
Tile Size:
1.0
Regenerate
Thin rhomb (36°)
Thick rhomb (72°)
Defect tile
P3 Penrose tiling
generated by deflation rules. Each thick rhomb → 2 thick + 1 thin; each thin → 1 thick + 1 thin.
Defects
: randomly flipped tiles that violate the matching rules, shown in red. Real quasicrystals contain ~1% phason defects from rapid quenching.