Galvagni Figures & Reid Figures for Polycairos
A cairo is a pentagon with at least four sides equal
and forming two nonconsecutive right angles.
A polycairo is a plane figure formed by joining cairos edge to edge
on the polycairo grid.
A Galvagni figure is a figure that can be tiled by a polyform
in more than one way—a kind of self-compatibility figure.
A Reid figure is a Galvagni figure without holes.
Galvagni figures and Reid figures first appeared in Erich Friedman's
Math Magic
for November 2004.
Here are minimal known Galvagni figures for polycairos.
Impossible
Impossible
Impossible
Impossible
Mirror Variants
Impossible
Reid Figures
Mirror Variants
Last revised 2023-08-10.
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Col. George Sicherman
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