Craig S. KaplanNov 20, 2023
It was one year ago today that David Smith emailed me out of the blue, asking about my work on computing Heesch numbers. A few days later he tipped his hand and showed me a drawing of the hat polykite for the first time. Happy Aperiodic Monotile day to all who celebrate.
Show threadNikolai Hampton đź’ľNov 21, 2023

@csk I just watched the “Up and Atom”YouTube vlog on this. With excerpts from interviews with you and Dave.

Dave is a f****** legend. :)

Have you ever met him? If so? What’s he like in person?

Show threadCraig S. KaplanNov 21, 2023
@nikolaihampton Yep, Dave's a legend! I met him in person for the first time (and reconnected with @Chaimgoodmanstrauss) earlier this year at an event in Oxford (where the Up and Atom interviews were shot). It was lovely to spend time with both of them.
Show threadNikolai Hampton đź’ľNov 24, 2023
@csk @Chaimgoodmanstrauss has there been any more work on finding other mono tiles of a different recipe? Is there anything about Dave’s (and your) tiles that suggest there will be other families?
Show threadNikolai Hampton đź’ľ
@csk @Chaimgoodmanstrauss I’m also extremely curious about what was it that fueled Dave’s intuition to look at this particular shape. Surely it couldn’t be brute force? It’s such a fascinating story.
Nov 24, 2023 at 11:49pmWeb