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A Strongly Aperiodic Monotile in Three Dimensions

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Hacker News | Oct 12, 2026 | nhatcher

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Abstract:Socolar and Taylor asked for a single, simply connected three-dimensional prototile that forces nonperiodicity by shape alone, admitting no weakly nonperiodic tiling; the Schmitt-Conway-Danzer biprism and the three-dimensional Socolar-Taylor tile admit screw motions or a periodic stacking direction.

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