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A Fractal Version of the Pinwheel Tiling

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Vassar College, Box 248, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12604, USA

    Natalie Priebe Frank

  2. School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia

    Michael F. Whittaker

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Dedicated to the inspiration of Benoit Mandelbrot.

The authors thank Dirk Frettlüh for helpful discussions about the aorta and Edmund Harriss for pointing out our theorem on rotations in the aorta. The second author is partially supported by ARC grant 228-37-1021, Australia.

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Frank, N.P., Whittaker, M.F. A Fractal Version of the Pinwheel Tiling. Math Intelligencer 33, 7–17 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-011-9212-9

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