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- A Puzzle - Every square can be dissected into L-ominoes. Can every Pythagorean square?
www.math.uic.edu/~fields/puzzle/puzzle.html
- Animal Enumeration - Enumeration on regular tilings of the Euclidean and Hyperbolic planes.
www.ieeta.pt/~tos/animals.html
- CalmPlex - Manufactures wooden puzzles of polyomino type. Includes Prices, tips, hints and pages with solution counts.
www.calmplex.com
- Christopher Monckton's Eternity Puzzle - Rules, the solution by Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan, other resources and links.
mathpuzzle.com/eternity.html
- Counting Horizontally Convex Polyominoes - Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 2 (1999), Article 99.1.8
www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/JIS/HICK2/chcp.html
- Eternity Page - Alex Selby's page with a description of his solution method.
www.archduke.demon.co.uk/eternity/index.html
- Gamepuzzles - Polyomino and polyform games and puzzles manufactured by Kadon Enterprises Inc.
www.gamepuzzles.com
- Golygons - Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees, defined by A.K. Dewdney.
pw1.netcom.com/~hjsmith/Golygons.html
- Hello Polyomino - Notes and links.
www-iphe.unil.ch/~prossele/omino.html
- Hepto - Some packings of the 108 heptominoes (with unit thickness) into various blocks.
www.pisquaredoversix.force9.co.uk/Hepto.htm
- Information on Pentomino Puzzles - At the Combinatorial Object Server.
www.theory.csc.uvic.ca/~cos/inf/misc/PentInfo.html
- Introduction to Polyominoes - Mainly on 3D packing.
www.nikhef.nl/user/e07/cube/intro.html
- Miroslav Vicher's Puzzles Pages - Polyforms (polyominoes, polyiamonds etc.) graphics, tables and resources.
alpha.ujep.cz/~vicher/puzzle
- Official Eternity Puzzle Website - A range of ingenious tiling puzzles with a 1 million pound sterling prize, recently won.
www.eternity-puzzle.co.uk
- Packing Polyominoes - Contains two GIF animations of 3D polyomino packing including 5 polyominoes packed in a 3x3x3 cube and 9 polyominoes packed in a 4x4x4 cube.
www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/polyomin
- Pentamini pentaminos pentominoes - A container of mathematical games, gadgets and software.
www.geocities.com/liviozuc
- Pentomino Covers - Problems on minimal covers.
www.xprt.net/~munizao/polycover
- Pentomino Homepage - Graphics, software, links. In English and French.
membres.lycos.fr/pentomino/index.html
- Pentomino Puzzle Software - Pentomino based puzzle game lets children solve and create geometric puzzles. Win32 software, download free time-limited demo version.
www.virtu-software.com/products/PentoMania.asp
- Pentomino Relationships - Symmetries in the families of rectangular solutions.
www.snaffles.demon.co.uk/pentanomes/pentanomes.html
- Pentominoe - Defined as square shapes that are directly connected to one another by one side, such as dominoes. Includes illustrations and a contest. In Dutch, French and English.
users.skynet.be/thedud3
- Pentominoes - Speech by Guenter Albrecht-Buehler.
pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~gbuehler/speech.htm
- Pentominos - Graphics (including animated GIF) and links.
mitglied.lycos.de/jkoeller/pentominos.htm
- Pentominos Puzzle Solver - A Java applet for solving pentomino puzzles.
godel.hws.edu/java/pent1.html
- Pentominus - Collection of 2,500 problems for sale on CD.
www.puzzlecraft.com/cd.html
- Polyomino and Polyhex Tiling - Tables of polyominoes and of polyomino tilings, in Postscript format.
student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/tiling
- Polyomino Fuzion game - Puzzles using pentominoes and hexominoes and a polyomino shareware game called Fuzion that designs and (semi-)automatically finds puzzle solutions.
www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/6149
- Polyominoes - Describes a numerical invariant that can be used to classify polyominoes.
members.tripod.com/~modularity/pol.htm
- Polyominoes - Puzzles, Patterns, Problems and Packings - Page for the book.
www.johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/ppppap.htm
- Polyominoes: Theme and Variations - A brief essay with some references.
www.cwi.nl/~jankok/etc/Polyomino.html
- Prolog Pentomino Solvers - A recent (April 2000) prolog program for finding all solutions to the 6 by 10 pentominoes problem.
www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~jc/teaching/alp/advancedlp/pentomino.html
- Schröder Triangles, Paths, and Parallelogram Polyominoes - A paper on their enumeration by Elisa Pergola and Robert A. Sulanke.
diamond.boisestate.edu/~sulanke/PAPER1/PergolaSulanke/PergolaSulanke.html
- Solomon W. Golomb - Home Page of the inventor of polyominoes. Includes biography, black and white picture, research interests and publications list.
commsci.usc.edu/faculty/golomb.html
- Some Variations on the Theme of Polyomino - Looks at patterns that illustrate how the squares of polyominos are connected to each other.
web.idirect.com/~recmath/poly.html
- Steve and Susan's Puzzles - Handmade wooden Pentomino and other puzzles; books.
www.puzzlecraft.com
- Taniguchi's Programs - Windows software to solve polyiamond and sliding block puzzles.
www1.usen.ne.jp/~yuki-ta/index_e.html
- The Geometry Junkyard: Polyominoes - Numerous links, sorted alphabetically.
www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/polyomino.html
- The Pentomino-Dictionary - The English words which can be written with the pentomino name letters FILNPTUVWXYZ and other pentomino curiosities.
www.iap.fr/users/esposito/pento.html
- The Pentominoes Page - Includes software for a game described on the page (2-3 players).
lonestar.texas.net/~jenicek/pentomin/pentomin.html
- The Pentominos Puzzle - This is a fast Pentominos puzzle solver. Works on DOS/Windows platform.
www.geocities.com/hirak_99/goodies/pento.html
- The Poly Pages - Information on the various polyforms - polyominoes, polyiamonds, polycubes, polyhexes etc.
www.geocities.com/alclarke0
- The Soma Cube - Soma-solving program in QBASIC.
home.att.net/~abcmcfarren/soma/soma.htm
- Thorleif's SOMA Page - SOMA puzzle site with graphics, newsletter and software.
www.fam-bundgaard.dk/SOMA/SOMA.HTM
- Tiling and Packing Results of Torsten Sillke - Polyominoes, polycubes and polyspheres.
www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~sillke/results.html
- Tiling UROP Homepage - Undergraduate Research Project in Random Tilings.
www.math.wisc.edu/~propp/tiling
- Xominoes - Livio Zucca finds a set of markings for the edges of a square that lead to exactly 100 possible tiles, and asks how to fit them into a 10x10 grid.
www.geocities.com/liviozuc/xominoes.html
- Gerard's Universal Polyomino Solver - Java code that can work out solutions for any of over 60 problems, some with hundreds and thousands of solutions.
www.xs4all.nl/~gp/PolyominoSolver/Polyomino.html
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