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A linear algorithm for Brick Wang tiling

Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics volume 36, pages 749–761 (2019)Cite this article

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The Wang tiling is a classical problem in combinatorics. A major theoretical question is to find a (small) set of tiles which tiles the plane only aperiodically. In this case, resulting tilings are rather restrictive. On the other hand, Wang tiles are used as a tool to generate textures and patterns in computer graphics. In these applications, a set of tiles is normally chosen so that it tiles the plane or its sub-regions easily in many different ways. With computer graphics applications in mind, we introduce a class of such tileset, which we call sequentially permissive tilesets, and consider tiling problems with constrained boundary. We apply our methodology to a special set of Wang tiles, called Brick Wang tiles, introduced by Derouet-Jourdan et al. in 2016 to model wall patterns. We generalise their result by providing a linear algorithm to decide and solve the tiling problem for arbitrary planar regions with holes.

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  1. OLM Digital Inc., Tokyo, Japan

    Alexandre Derouet-Jourdan

  2. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Shizuo Kaji & Yoshihiro Mizoguchi

  3. JST PRESTO, Tokyo, Japan

    Shizuo Kaji

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Shizuo Kaji was partially supported by JST PRESTO Grant Number JPMJPR16E3, Japan.

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Derouet-Jourdan, A., Kaji, S. & Mizoguchi, Y. A linear algorithm for Brick Wang tiling. Japan J. Indust. Appl. Math. 36, 749–761 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13160-019-00369-z

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