Learn about pentominoes and the patterns they create and what pentominoes have to do with Escher, Penrose, Logic,Impossible Objects, Mathematics and
Art.
Download a DOS program, called 'newpent.exe'. It assembles (6x10) pentomino solutions manually or automatically and does some other entertaining things.
Alternatively, download aWindows program, called 'Pentominoes.exe'. It assembles pentomino solutions for (6x10), (5x12), (4x15), (3x20)and free shapes manually or
automatically. It plays back the solutions and does some other entertaining things.
Visit a
gallery of more pentomino wood mosaics like the 2 examples above and below. A must for all lovers of logical art (Note: the pictures are all copyrighted).
NEW! In order to add more color to the pentomino mosaics than the natural colors wood can provide, the most recent mosaics have been
constructed from colored papers. They can be seen in a special room of the gallery. An example is also shown below.
NEW! Download and read my novel called "The Children of the Third Brain". It is about the history of modern science in a parallel world, called "Gabo".
In this world there are only 12 elements, and their atoms have the shape of pentominoes. Although the Gaboan scientists use the same approaches and ideas as the terrestrial ones did,
they arrive at the opposite conclusions. Eventually, evolution reveals the advent of the next stage of man.
Contact me at my e-mail address (g-buehler@northwestern.edu) about more information about the pictures.
