Monday 28 July 2014

geometry - Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #3


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:


1x1_2x6



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.




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