Penrose Tiling — Substitution Rules

Penrose tilings are aperiodic — they tile the plane without repeating. Built by inflating/deflating two rhombus types (fat and thin) via the golden ratio φ = (1+√5)/2.

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Statistics

Fat rhombi:
Thin rhombi:
Ratio fat/thin:
Predicted (φ): 1.618

The ratio fat/thin → φ as levels → ∞. No translational symmetry, but 5-fold rotational symmetry.