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From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
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Subject: Re: ML tetris (and Hextris)
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Date: 23 Apr 91 21:22:15 GMT
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Hextris looks interesting, but let me suggest  something a little more different:

how about a tetris with 5 fold symmettry?? I think you need only two pieces (parallograms)
with angles involving 36 and 72 degrees (ie the golden mean is in there somewhere).
Tetris is just a tesselation problem, so this five-fold tetris could be very interesting,
especially since there is no general algorithm (so they say).

yah, we could call it Pentris (Penrosetris?)
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