Wikipedia Talk:Aperiodic tiling

Help rewrite

By the way, I retract my comment that the the phrase "... that does
not repeat itself..." is merely "unhelpful".  The phrase is simply
wrong.  After all, every Penrose tiling repeats all finite patches of
itself, it just doesn't do so periodically.  I don't know of better
words than "periodic"/"nonperiodic"; if the reader has to scroll down
to the Terminology section to find out what the intro means, that's a
good thing, because without understanding what periodic means there's
no way of understating what aperiodic means.  By the way, the
terminology section (or an appropriate section of periodic function)
should define the usage "fully periodic" for a periodicity whose
translation vectors spans the space.  I'm pretty sure that this
article should specify "In this article, the term periodic refers to
a tiling that is either quasiperiodic or fully periodic."  -Dan Hoey
18:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)