Websites in Polyominoes

1. A Puzzle
   Every square can be dissected into L-ominoes. Can every Pythagorean square?
   http://www.math.uic.edu/~fields/puzzle/puzzle.html
   
   
2. Animal Enumeration
   Enumeration on regular tilings of the Euclidean and Hyperbolic planes.
   http://www.ieeta.pt/~tos/animals.html
   
   
3. CalmPlex
   Manufactures wooden puzzles of polyomino type. Includes Prices, tips, hints and pages with solution counts.
   http://www.calmplex.com/
   
   
4. Christopher Monckton's Eternity Puzzle
   Rules, the solution by Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan, other resources and links.
   http://mathpuzzle.com/eternity.html
   
   
5. Counting Horizontally Convex Polyominoes
   Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 2 (1999), Article 99.1.8
   http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/JIS/HICK2/chcp.html
   
   
6. Eithan's Pentominoes-3D Applet Solver
   Java applet which solves the Pentominoes 3D puzzle. General informations and data.
   http://www.panda.co.il/eithan/pento/Pentominoes3D.html
   
   
7. Eternity Page
   Alex Selby's page with a description of his solution method.
   http://www.archduke.demon.co.uk/eternity/index.html
   
   
8. Gamepuzzles
   Polyomino and polyform games and puzzles manufactured by Kadon Enterprises Inc.
   http://www.gamepuzzles.com/
   
   
9. Gerard's Universal Polyomino Solver
   Java code that can work out solutions for any of over 60 problems, some with hundreds and thousands of solutions.
   http://www.xs4all.nl/~gp/PolyominoSolver/Polyomino.html
   
   
10. Golygons
    Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees, defined by A.K. Dewdney.
    http://pw1.netcom.com/~hjsmith/Golygons.html
    
    
11. Hepto
    Some packings of the 108 heptominoes (with unit thickness) into various blocks.
    http://www.pisquaredoversix.force9.co.uk/Hepto.htm
    
    
12. Information on Pentomino Puzzles
    At the Combinatorial Object Server.
    http://www.theory.csc.uvic.ca/~cos/inf/misc/PentInfo.html
    
    
13. Logical Art and the Art of Logic
    Pentomino pictures, software and other resources by Guenter Albrecht-Buehler.
    http://www.basic.northwestern.edu/g-buehler/pentominoes/
    
    
14. Miroslav Vicher's Puzzles Pages
    Polyforms (polyominoes, and polyiamonds) graphics, tables and resources.
    http://alpha.ujep.cz/~vicher/puzzle/
    
    
15. Official Eternity Puzzle Website
    A range of ingenious tiling puzzles with a 1 million pound sterling prize, recently won.
    http://www.eternity-puzzle.co.uk/
    
    
16. Packing Polyominoes
    Contains two GIF animations of 3D polyomino packing including 5 polyominoes packed in a 3x3x3 cube and 9 polyominoes packed in a 4x4x4 cube.
    http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/polyomin/
    
    
17. Pentamini pentaminos pentominoes
    A container of mathematical games, gadgets and software.
    http://www.geocities.com/liviozuc/
    
    
18. Pentomino Covers
    Problems on minimal covers.
    http://www.xprt.net/~munizao/polycover/
    
    
19. Pentomino Homepage
    Graphics, software, links. In English and French.
    http://membres.lycos.fr/pentomino/index.html
    
    
20. Pentomino Puzzle Software
    Pentomino based puzzle game lets children solve and create geometric puzzles. Win32 software, download free time-limited demo version.
    http://www.virtu-software.com/products/PentoMania.asp
    
    
21. Pentomino Relationships
    Symmetries in the families of rectangular solutions.
    http://www.snaffles.demon.co.uk/pentanomes/pentanomes.html
    
    
22. Pentominoe
    Defined as square shapes that are directly connected to one another by one side, such as dominoes. Includes illustrations and a contest. In Dutch, French and English.
    http://users.skynet.be/thedud3/
    
    
23. Pentominos
    Graphics (including animated GIF) and links.
    http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/pentominos.htm
    
    
24. Pentominos Puzzle Solver
    A Java applet for solving pentomino puzzles.
    http://godel.hws.edu/java/pent1.html
    
    
25. Polyomino Fuzion game
    Puzzles using pentominoes and hexominoes and a polyomino shareware game called Fuzion that designs and (semi-)automatically finds puzzle solutions.
    http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/6149/
    
    
26. Polyomino and Polyhex Tiling
    Tables of polyominoes and of polyomino tilings, in Postscript format.
    http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/tiling/
    
    
27. Polyominoes
    Describes a numerical invariant that can be used to classify polyominoes.
    http://members.tripod.com/~modularity/pol.htm
    
    
28. Polyominoes: Theme and Variations
    A brief essay with some references.
    http://www.cwi.nl/~jankok/etc/Polyomino.html
    
    
29. Puzzle Fun
    Newsletter edited by Rodolfo Kurchan about pentominoes and other math problems.
    http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/pfun/pfun.html
    
    
30. Schröder Triangles, Paths, and Parallelogram Polyominoes
    A paper on their enumeration by Elisa Pergola and Robert A. Sulanke.
    http://diamond.boisestate.edu/~sulanke/PAPER1/PergolaSulanke/PergolaSulanke.html
    
    
31. Solomon W. Golomb
    Home Page of the inventor of polyominoes. Includes biography, black and white picture, research interests and publications list.
    http://commsci.usc.edu/faculty/golomb.html
    
    
32. Some Variations on the Theme of Polyomino
    Looks at patterns that illustrate how the squares of polyominos are connected to each other.
    http://web.idirect.com/~recmath/poly.html
    
    
33. Steve and Susan's Puzzles
    Handmade wooden Pentomino and other puzzles; books.
    http://www.puzzlecraft.com/
    
    
34. Taniguchi's Programs
    Windows software to solve polyiamond and sliding block puzzles.
    http://www1.usen.ne.jp/~yuki-ta/index_e.html
    
    
35. The Geometry Junkyard: Polyominoes
    Numerous links, sorted alphabetically.
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/polyomino.html
    
    
36. The Pentomino-Dictionary
    The English words which can be written with the pentomino name letters FILNPTUVWXYZ and other pentomino curiosities.
    http://www.iap.fr/users/esposito/pento.html
    
    
37. The Pentominos Puzzle
    This is a fast Pentominos puzzle solver. Works on DOS/Windows platform.
    http://www.geocities.com/hirak_99/goodies/pento.html
    
    
38. The Poly Pages
    Information on the various polyforms - polyominoes, polyiamonds, polycubes, and polyhexes.
    http://www.geocities.com/alclarke0
    
    
39. Thorleif's SOMA Page
    SOMA puzzle site with graphics, newsletter and software.
    http://www.fam-bundgaard.dk/SOMA/SOMA.HTM
    
    
40. Tiling UROP Homepage
    Undergraduate Research Project in Random Tilings.
    http://www.math.wisc.edu/~propp/tiling/
    
    
41. Tiling and Packing Results of Torsten Sillke
    Polyominoes, polycubes and polyspheres.
    http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~sillke/results.html
    
    
42. Xominoes
    Livio Zucca finds a set of markings for the edges of a square that lead to exactly 100 possible tiles, and asks how to fit them into a 10x10 grid.
    http://www.geocities.com/liviozuc/xominoes.html
    
    

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