Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 23 Jan 1998.
Truchet not Penrose....D-oh!!!
alt.ascii-art
· 1 message · 23 Jan 1998
Earlier this week i posted some things like the snippit below:
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I had called them Penrose tilings but as Bill Taylor pointed out to
me,they are not Penrose tiles at all.I felt stuned for a moment and then
realised i had gotten Penrose confused with Truchet,sorry.These tiles
are called Truchet tiles.
Thanks to Bill Taylor for his quick wits,
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