US20030136069A1 - Structural elements and tile sets - Google Patents

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US20030136069A1
US20030136069A1 US10/275,159 US27515902A US2003136069A1 US 20030136069 A1 US20030136069 A1 US 20030136069A1 US 27515902 A US27515902 A US 27515902A US 2003136069 A1 US2003136069 A1 US 2003136069A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44F—SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES
    • B44F3/00—Designs characterised by outlines
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
    • B44C3/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing ornamental structures
    • B44C3/12—Uniting ornamental elements to structures, e.g. mosaic plates
    • B44C3/123—Mosaic constructs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44F—SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES
    • B44F11/00—Designs imitating artistic work
    • B44F11/04—Imitation of mosaic or tarsia-work patterns
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F15/00—Flooring
    • E04F15/02—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/0669—Tesselation
    • A63F2009/067—Tesselation using a particular shape of tile
    • A63F2009/0681—Tesselation using a particular shape of tile pentagonal
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/0669—Tesselation
    • A63F2009/0695—Tesselation using different types of tiles
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/0669—Tesselation
    • A63F2009/0695—Tesselation using different types of tiles
    • A63F2009/0697—Tesselation using different types of tiles of polygonal shapes

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  • the invention relates to structural elements as well as sets of structural elements or respectively tiles with geometrically defined circumferences which will be in the following also referred to simply as “tiles”, as well as to surface patterns composed of such structural elements or respectively tiles.
  • the invention also relates to applications of these sets of structural elements in tilings, puzzles, placement games, inlays, fabric patterns and jewelry.
  • tile sets which cover the plane are generally limited with respect to the possible structures. Thus tilings from square or hexagonal tiles are only represented in a single periodic structure.
  • tile sets would be of interest which allow a variety of different structures or patterns in periodic or non-periodical way, but are composed of only one or a very limited number of different types of tiles.
  • the sets of structural elements can be tile sets for the inside or the outside. With these sets floor areas, places and walls can be covered. Insofar these tiles can be made from traditional materials such as ceramic, marble, precious stones, plastic, metals or wood.
  • the corners can be rounded, preferably with equal radius of curvature in the comers or with curvature sections of the smaller corner being repeated in the larger comers in a convex or respectively concave manner three times in a congruent fashion. Thereby the roundings in all patterns fit smoothly together.
  • the structural elements can be used for placement games, in particular for puzzles. These puzzles can be provided in a standard fashion with pictures which are to be placed. These placements or respectively puzzles in accordance with the invention preferably have a solid and set frame area, or they can be cut straight in order to provide e.g. a rectangular edge, whereby however edge pieces are generated which differ from the congruent puzzle pieces.
  • the structure elements can be employed in a game in which two or more players alternate in placing the structural elements and e.g. the player wins who places the last structural element.
  • the placement game in accordance with the invention preferably have a larger number of structural elements, in particular more than nine and the structural elements consist all preferably in one or two sets of congruent structural elements as well as optionally in the above mentioned frame area.
  • the sides of the Ipentas or respectively the structures resulting from these Ipentas have been replaced by line sections which upon placement of the puzzle pieces will result in their hookup.
  • this can occur by replacing each of the five sides by one bulging line which bulges to the left and centrally symmetrically thereto to the right, whereby back cuts or respectively hookups become possible.
  • the sets of the structural elements can be made from wood, stone, ceramic, glass, plastic, metal or precious stones and be formed into inlays. These structures can, in spite of their geometrical rigidity, formed into a variety of pictures by multiple kinds of positioning of the structural elements.
  • the set of structural elements can be composed into fabric patterns or respectively wallpaper patterns or similar items, in which the entire area is completely or substantially completely covered by Ipentas or respectively modified Ipentas, wherein the circumference however due to a randomization or respectively accidental distribution do not repeat.
  • the preferred embodiment is made from a periodically repeating hexagonal subdivision of eight Ipentas, in which the Ipentas, however, can be statistically distributed differently from sub area to sub area, so that in spite of the periodicity of the edge of the sub group a statistically non-periodic arrangement of Ipentas results. For most observers the hexagonal structure of the sub areas thereby disappears.
  • a further embodiment of the invention are new structural elements or respectively tiles which are derived from the Ipentas.
  • a first group of these structural elements results from the Ipentas by replacing each side of the Ipentas by a line track, a vector sequence or a curved section (in the following “curved section”), in which the distance between the end points is the same and for which at least one of these is non-straight.
  • Preferably all five curved sections are equal, resulting in either one or two new modified Ipentas, which have five “main corners” which spread or define an Ipenta. If the curved sections are centrally symmetrical, then only one new structural element results. Otherwise two of these arise, depending upon whether the replacement of the five sides of the Ipenta by curve sections is done clockwise or counterclockwise.
  • the curved sections have a centrally symmetrical S- or respectively Z- shape.
  • the curve sections cause a hooking or interlocking of the juxtaposed structural elements.
  • the latter can be achieved by providing that at least two partial sections of the curve sections form an angle of more than 180° with each other.
  • the curved sections neither intersect with themselves nor do they intersect the curved sections of the other sides of the Ipentas.
  • the curved sections consist of two line elements forming an angle of 144° then two inventive structural elements with eight (correct: ten) or respectively six corners arise. For the structural elements with six comers one simply leaves out the resulting double lines running back and forth, since these cover zero area.
  • the line segment consists of a number of n>2 sections and the angle between the first and the last section is 144°, then the tessellation of Ipentas results in a tessellation made from two groups of congruent tiles having a different circumference length of the two tiles. The difference of the circumference length is four times the overlap of the first and last section of the line sections. Again one leaves out the overlapping line sections of the smaller structural element.
  • the invention further provides new structural elements or respectively tiles which are also derived from Ipentas and have a circumference which results from placing at least two Ipentas along one or two sides juxtaposed with each other.
  • Preferred are the structural elements from two so juxtaposidly positioned Ipentas, whereby seven different (not counting mirror reversing) structural elements result, six of those having eight and one of those having six sides of equal length.
  • Three of the structural elements can tile the plane periodically or non-periodically, wherein only the line symmetrical structural element allows the tiling with this single structural element.
  • the others form structural elements which can tile the claim only together with the structural element which is mirror symmetrical to them.
  • FIG. 1 to 3 shows different tesellations made from the sets of Ipentas in accordance with the invention
  • FIGS. 4 to 6 show tessellations by sets of modified Ipentas
  • FIG. 7 a to 8 h - 2 show structural elements in accordance with the invention from modified Ipentas
  • FIG. 9 a to g show structural elements in accordance with the invention which are composed of two Ipentas
  • FIG. 9 h shows the structural elements of FIG. 9 a - g put together
  • FIG. 10 a to b shows structural elements in accordance with the invention composed into a spirally tessellation
  • FIG. 11 a shows a tessellation from a group of structural elements in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 11 b to c shows two complementary structural elements in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 11 d shows a tessellation of structural elements in accordance with FIG. 11 b and 11 c which is derived from the one in accordance with FIG. 11 a.
  • FIG. 1 a non-periodic tessellation of Ipentas as well as a cross-section along line A-A is shown. These Ipentas 1 and 2 all congruent and have one or two colors. Two “circles” (decagons) from ten Ipentas are shown in FIG. 1. The possibility to continue this structure into infinity can be recognized.
  • FIG. 2 a non-periodic, centrally symmetrical tessellation from Ipentas 1 and 2 is shown. There, too, the neighboring structural elements switch color.
  • FIG. 3 a non-periodic tessellation from Ipentas is shown. Each time eight of these Ipentas (four light ones and four dark ones) form a hexagon. The circumference of these hexagons tile the plane periodically. The Ipentas themselves however tile the plane non-periodically, wherein the two possible arrangements of the eight pentagons in the hexagon is determined by an arbitrary or statistical distribution. However, also an algorithm can be used for this.
  • FIGS. 7 a to 7 h structural elements are shown which have been derived from Ipentas. For these the sides of the Ipentas have been replaced by centrally symmetrical line sequences appearing edgy or rounded. This results in congruent structural elements for the tessellations. Indentations which result in a secure connection or hookup of the structural elements are shown in some of FIGS. 7 a to h.
  • FIG. 8 a - 1 , 2 to 8 h - 1 , 2 respectively two structural elements or respectively tiles are shown, which follow from the Ipentas as follows: First each line of the Ipentas is replaced by two lines of equal length having an angle of 144° between them. Thereby, as described above, two structural elements 9 and 10 as they are shown in FIGS. 11 b and c in a tessellation in FIG. 11 d , result. If one now replaces each of these ten or respectively six sides of the structural elements by the corresponding line sequences or line shapes, as this has been also done with the Ipentas themselves in the corresponding representations of FIG. 7 a - h, then the shown modified structural elements result.
  • the structural elements 8 a - 1 and 8 a - 2 (and correspondingly for 8 b - h ) tile together the plane, partially with interlocking or hookup.
  • FIG. 9 a - g seven structural elements are shown which result from juxtaposing two Ipentas along one side or two sides.
  • FIG. 9 h it is shown how these seven structural elements can be put into a shape of minimal circumference.
  • three structural elements are particular preferred, because these either alone or together with others or respectively with those appearing mirror symmetrical to them the plane can be tiled periodically and non-periodically.
  • 9 g this is an equilateral irregular hexagon which is derived from two Ipentas, which are juxtaposed along two lines.
  • these are also equilateral, irregular octagonal structural elements which are obtained by juxtaposition of two Ipentas along one line.
  • Non-periodical tessellations from the structural elements in accordance with FIGS. 9 a, 9 f, 9 g are shown in FIGS. 5, 6 and 4 . Only the structural element in accordance with FIG. 9 a tiles or tessillates the plane by itself, see FIG. 5. In the case of structural elements in accordance with FIG. 9 f and 9 g one needs for this purpose in addition the mirror symmetrical structural elements as shown in FIG. 6 by the gaps between the structural elements (or by white elements).
  • FIG. 10 a and b two tessellations with modified Ipentas 7 and 8 are shown which have a spiraling structure, and wherein FIG. 10 b encompasses the arrangement of FIG. 10 a and shows the growing spiral.
  • the individual structural elements 7 and 8 correspond to the structural element shown in FIG. 7 d.
  • FIG. 11 a - d it is shown how new structural elements 9 and 10 result from the Ipentas.
  • the original tessellation from pure Ipentas is shown in FIG. 11 a. If one replaces in this starting tessellation each side by a line sequence of two lines forming an angle of 144°, then the tessellation in accordance with Figure 11 d results, wherein the double lines, as described, have been omitted. In this way two sets of tiles which are individually shown in FIG. 11 b and FIG. 11 c result.
  • the first set consists of equilateral decagonal structure elements, while the second set consists of equilateral hexagonal structural elements.
  • the decagonal structural element is equilateral and has the angles 288°, 144°, 72°, 144°, 144°, 144°, 144°, 72°, 144°.
  • the hexagonal structural element has the same side length as the decagonal structural element and the angles are 72°, 72°, 216°, 72°, 72°, 216°.
  • Placement games based on the above tessellation preferably in addition have a surrounding edge which does not touch the tessellation, e.g. a rectangular edge, which confines the placement game, which can for instance be cut from cardboard, plastic material or wood, and thus defines a closed edge area which surrounds the internal area.
  • the internal area is filled by the set of structural elements in accordance with the invention or respectively by the two represented sets.
  • placement games can be formed in such a way that one side can be used as a puzzle and the other side with no picture and with the structural elements of the same color or with the structural elements of different colors, e.g. up to six colors, can be formed.
  • the structural elements are limited by magnetic forces in their movement. Also the structural elements with back cuts which define the juxtaposition and ensure against shifts are useful for this purpose.

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