Grids and folding curves
This picture of a grid in the plane comes from the recent paper Edge-covering plane-filling curves on grid colorings: a pedestrian approach by Jörg Arndt and Julia Handl. In this grid, the shapes that touch any given point (reading clockwise) are a triangle, a square, a hexagon, and another square, which we denote as (3.4.6.4) for short. We could have s…
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