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phi does play an interesting

Permalink Submitted by Anonymous on August 19, 2013

phi does play an interesting rôle in Penrose tilings. Not only as the ratio of the sides of the tiles, being long/short = phi, but also as the ratios of the numbers of different tiles in any patch. And many more if you plunge into them.

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