Take, for example, the Southampton bedroom of Gloria Vanderbilt, a pattern-on-pattern room that, despite being decades old, still feels “fresh and inviting,” says Alexandra Resor, the Charleston-based ...

It’s this kind of beauty that a retired print technician was seeking when he recently discovered the first “aperiodic monotile”— a single tile that fills up the plane in a non-repeating pattern. To ...

A team from the University of Arkansas have discovered the first shape that can cover a wall without ever creating a repeating pattern. The property is known as 'aperiodic tiling', and until now ...

The 13-sided figure is the first that can fill an infinite surface with a pattern that is always original. Repeating patterns have translational symmetry, meaning you can shift one part of the ...

While certain other tiles can be arranged so that they don’t form a repeating pattern, einsteins are special because that’s the only way they can tile. Previously, mathematicians knew of sets ...