Polyominoes (Recreations)

Polyominoes Sites:

Eternity Page Eternity Page: Alex Selby's page with a description of his solution method. (Polyominoes) http://www.archduke.demon.co.uk/eternity/index.html Polyomino and Polyhex Tiling Polyomino and Polyhex Tiling: Tables of polyominoes and of polyomino tilings, in Postscript format. (Polyominoes) http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/tiling/ Christopher Monckton's Eternity Puzzle Christopher Monckton's Eternity Puzzle: Rules, the solution by Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan, other resources and links. (Polyominoes) http://mathpuzzle.com/eternity.html CalmPlex CalmPlex: Manufactures wooden puzzles of polyomino type. Includes Prices, tips, hints and pages with solution counts. (Polyominoes) http://www.calmplex.com/ The Poly Pages The Poly Pages: Information on the various polyforms - polyominoes, polyiamonds, polycubes, and polyhexes. (Polyominoes) http://www.geocities.com/alclarke0 Xominoes Xominoes: Livio Zucca finds a set of markings for the edges of a square that lead to exactly 100 possible tiles, and asks how to fit them into a 10x10 grid. (Polyominoes) http://www.geocities.com/liviozuc/xominoes.html Packing Polyominoes Packing Polyominoes: Contains two GIF animations of 3D polyomino packing including 5 polyominoes packed in a 3x3x3 cube and 9 polyominoes packed in a 4x4x4 cube. (Polyominoes) http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/polyomin/ A Puzzle A Puzzle: Every square can be dissected into L-ominoes. Can every Pythagorean square? (Polyominoes) http://www.math.uic.edu/~fields/puzzle/puzzle.html Steve and Susan's Puzzles Steve and Susan's Puzzles: Handmade wooden Pentomino and other puzzles; books. (Polyominoes) http://www.puzzlecraft.com/ The Soma Cube The Soma Cube: Soma-solving program in QBASIC by Courtney McFarren. (Polyominoes) http://www.geocities.com/abcmcfarren/soma/soma.htm Logical Art and the Art of Logic Logical Art and the Art of Logic: Pentomino pictures, software and other resources by Guenter Albrecht-Buehler. (Polyominoes) http://www.basic.northwestern.edu/g-buehler/pentominoes/ Some Variations on the Theme of Polyomino Some Variations on the Theme of Polyomino: Looks at patterns that illustrate how the squares of polyominos are connected to each other. (Polyominoes) http://web.idirect.com/~recmath/poly.html Schröder Triangles, Paths, and Parallelogram Polyominoes Schröder Triangles, Paths, and Parallelogram Polyominoes: A paper on their enumeration by Elisa Pergola and Robert A. Sulanke. (Polyominoes) http://diamond.boisestate.edu/~sulanke/PAPER1/PergolaSulanke/PergolaSulanke.html The Pentominoes Page The Pentominoes Page: Of Jay Jenicek. Includes software for a game described on the page (2-3 players). (Polyominoes) http://www.puzzlecraft.com/solutions/pent/pentom/pentomin.html The Pentominos Puzzle The Pentominos Puzzle: This is a fast Pentominos puzzle solver. Works on DOS/Windows platform. (Polyominoes) http://www.geocities.com/hirak_99/goodies/pento.html Pentamini pentaminos pentominoes Pentamini pentaminos pentominoes: A container of mathematical games, gadgets and software. (Polyominoes) http://www.geocities.com/liviozuc/ Pentominos Puzzle Solver Pentominos Puzzle Solver: A Java applet for solving pentomino puzzles. (Polyominoes) http://godel.hws.edu/java/pent1.html Tiling UROP Homepage Tiling UROP Homepage: Undergraduate Research Project in Random Tilings. (Polyominoes) http://www.math.wisc.edu/~propp/tiling/ Polyomino Fuzion game Polyomino Fuzion game: Puzzles using pentominoes and hexominoes and a polyomino shareware game called Fuzion that designs and (semi-)automatically finds puzzle solutions. (Polyominoes) http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/6149/ Thorleif's SOMA Page Thorleif's SOMA Page: SOMA puzzle site with graphics, newsletter and software. (Polyominoes) http://www.fam-bundgaard.dk/SOMA/SOMA.HTM Pentominoe Pentominoe: Defined as square shapes that are directly connected to one another by one side, such as dominoes. Includes illustrations and a contest. In Dutch, French and English. (Polyominoes) http://users.skynet.be/thedud3/ Puzzle Fun Puzzle Fun: Newsletter edited by Rodolfo Kurchan about pentominoes and other math problems. (Polyominoes) http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/pfun/pfun.html The Geometry Junkyard: Polyominoes The Geometry Junkyard: Polyominoes: Numerous links, sorted alphabetically. (Polyominoes) http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/polyomino.html Polyominoes Polyominoes: Describes a numerical invariant that can be used to classify polyominoes. (Polyominoes) http://members.tripod.com/~modularity/pol.htm Eithan's Pentominoes-3D Applet Solver Eithan's Pentominoes-3D Applet Solver: Java applet which solves the Pentominoes 3D puzzle. General informations and data. (Polyominoes) http://www.panda.co.il/eithan/pento/Pentominoes3D.html Pentomino Relationships Pentomino Relationships: Symmetries in the families of rectangular solutions. (Polyominoes) http://www.snaffles.demon.co.uk/pentanomes/pentanomes.html Polyominoes: Theme and Variations Polyominoes: Theme and Variations: A brief essay with some references. (Polyominoes) http://www.cwi.nl/~jankok/etc/Polyomino.html Pentomino Puzzle Software Pentomino Puzzle Software: Pentomino based puzzle game lets children solve and create geometric puzzles. Win32 software, download free time-limited demo version. (Polyominoes) http://www.virtu-software.com/products/PentoMania.asp Gamepuzzles Gamepuzzles: Polyomino and polyform games and puzzles manufactured by Kadon Enterprises Inc. (Polyominoes) http://www.gamepuzzles.com/ Animal Enumeration Animal Enumeration: Enumeration on regular tilings of the Euclidean and Hyperbolic planes. (Polyominoes) http://www.ieeta.pt/~tos/animals.html Pentomino Covers Pentomino Covers: Problems on minimal covers. (Polyominoes) http://www.xprt.net/~munizao/polycover/ Golygons Golygons: Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees, defined by A.K. Dewdney. (Polyominoes) http://pw1.netcom.com/~hjsmith/Golygons.html Gerard's Universal Polyomino Solver Gerard's Universal Polyomino Solver: Java code that can work out solutions for any of over 60 problems, some with hundreds and thousands of solutions. (Polyominoes) http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/PolyominoSolver/Polyomino.html Solomon W. Golomb Solomon W. Golomb: Home Page of the inventor of polyominoes. Includes biography, black and white picture, research interests and publications list. (Polyominoes) http://commsci.usc.edu/faculty/golomb.html Pentomino Homepage Pentomino Homepage: Graphics, software, links. In English and French. (Polyominoes) http://membres.lycos.fr/pentomino/index.html Hepto Hepto: Some packings of the 108 heptominoes (with unit thickness) into various blocks. (Polyominoes) http://www.pisquaredoversix.force9.co.uk/Hepto.htm Taniguchi's Programs Taniguchi's Programs: Windows software to solve polyiamond and sliding block puzzles. (Polyominoes) http://www1.usen.ne.jp/~yuki-ta/index_e.html Pentominos Pentominos: Graphics (including animated GIF) and links. (Polyominoes) http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/pentominos.htm The Pentomino-Dictionary The Pentomino-Dictionary: The English words which can be written with the pentomino name letters FILNPTUVWXYZ and other pentomino curiosities. (Polyominoes) http://www.iap.fr/users/esposito/pento.html Tiling and Packing Results of Torsten Sillke Tiling and Packing Results of Torsten Sillke: Polyominoes, polycubes and polyspheres. (Polyominoes) http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~sillke/results.html Official Eternity Puzzle Website Official Eternity Puzzle Website: A range of ingenious tiling puzzles with a 1 million pound sterling prize, recently won. (Polyominoes) http://www.eternity-puzzle.co.uk/ Counting Horizontally Convex Polyominoes Counting Horizontally Convex Polyominoes: Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 2 (1999), Article 99.1.8 (Polyominoes) http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/JIS/HICK2/chcp.html Miroslav Vicher's Puzzles Pages Miroslav Vicher's Puzzles Pages: Polyforms (polyominoes, and polyiamonds) graphics, tables and resources. (Polyominoes) http://alpha.ujep.cz/~vicher/puzzle/ Information on Pentomino Puzzles Information on Pentomino Puzzles: At the Combinatorial Object Server. (Polyominoes) http://www.theory.csc.uvic.ca/~cos/inf/misc/PentInfo.html