Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!sunset.utah.edu!u-jmolse
From: u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (John M. Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tetris .. where?
Message-ID: <1350@wasatch.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 06:32:19 GMT
References: <36511@vax1.tcd.ie> <10902@well.UUCP> <9485@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <1353@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG> <853@microsoft.UUCP> <16810@cisunx.UUCP>
Sender: news@wasatch.UUCP
Reply-To: u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu.UUCP@wasatch.UUCP (John M. Olsen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Utah, Computer Science Dept.
Lines: 30

ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>Actually "pentominoes" would be quite impossible.  You can't fill a
>plane with regular pentagons.  "Hexominoes" on the other hand is quite
>possible.

>Eric Kennedy
>ejkst@cisunx.UUCP

This is drifting away from comp.sys.amiga, but:

How about making your dropping pieces out of both triangles and pentagons
in order to make a valid 2d tiling?  Then, depending on your orientations,
the tricky part is deciding when you have a full row. :^)

For those interested in making tilings out of non-obvious shapes, read
"Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers ... and the Return of Doctor Matrix"
by Martin Gardner (Freeman, (C) 1989).

In the Shareware version of Tetrix, is there anyone else who has survived
level 10 for a while?  I lost it when a nephiew moved the mouse while
I had dmouse running.  (Those who have played with dmouse running will
understand the strange effects.)  Such is life.

We now return you to your previously scheduled comp.sys.amiga, already
in progress.

/\/\ /|  |    /||| /\|       | John M. Olsen, 1547 Jamestown Drive  /\/\
\/\/ \|()|\|\_ |||.\/|/)@|\_ | Salt Lake City, UT  84121-2051       \/\/
/\/\  |  u-jmolse%ug@cs.utah.edu or ...!utah-cs!utah-ug!u-jmolse    /\/\
\/\/             "A full mailbox is a happy mailbox"                \/\/