@ylecun For better or worse, it is not true that anyone can publish to https://t.co/NwbooxMQjh.
You either need an email from an academic institution or an endorsement from an existing user with publications in the same field, AKA peer review.
Octagonal infinite tiling of a surface between two skipped cubic (nbo) skeletons. The clue, the base tile is about as far from regular as it gets. (1/n)
The tiling can be divided into modules using a graph decomposition of the Poincaré dual on the flags of the octagon. Checking the residual graphs for isomorphic subgraphs sometimes feels like fishing in a pond. (5/n)
… and messy self-intersecting surfaces with polynomial growth, that defies description when up close, but show order at the boundaries, when viewed at a distance. (5/n)
An “ugly duckling”… Beauty is often associated with symmetry and this tile has none all by itself. To make the magic happen, start by laying it out on the hyperbolic plane using rotations only. (1/n)