Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
Next puzzle in this series: Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #4
...up to 100 to come... I'll post them a few at a time. Why is this first one #3: Numbering is as per my heptomino data file and will skip rectifiable and uninteresting heptominoes. Some of them will be posed as no-computer hand-tiling only puzzles.
The goal is to tile rectangles as small as possible with the given heptomino, in this case number 3 of the 108 heptominoes. We allow the addition of copies of a rectangle. For each rectangle $a\times b$, find the smallest area larger rectangle that copies of $a\times b$ plus at least one of the given heptomino will tile.
Example with the $1\times 1$ you can tile a $2\times 6$ as follows:
Now we don't need to consider $1\times 1$ further as we have found the smallest rectangle tilable with copies of the heptomino plus copies of $1\times 1$.
I found 87 more but lots of them can be found by 'expansion rules'. I considered component rectangles of width 1 through 11 and length to 31 but my search was far from complete.
List of known sizes:
- Width 1: Lengths 1 to 20, 22 to 25, 29 to 30
- Width 2: Lengths 2 to 18, 22 to 24, 29 to 31
- Width 3: Lengths 3 to 8, 14 to 15
- Width 4: Lengths 4 to 25, 27, 29 to 31
- Width 5: Lengths 7 to 8
- Width 7: Length 8
- Width 8: Lengths 9 to 10
Many of them could be tiled by hand fairly easily.
No comments:
Post a Comment