Penrose Paving outside the Andrew Wiles building at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK. See also additional information
The paving in front of the Andrew Wiles building is constructed from two different diamond-shaped granite tiles, each adorned identically with stainless steel circular arcs. There are various ways of covering the infinite plane with them, matching the arcs. Every such pattern is non-repetitive and contains infinitely many exact copies of what you see before you. The non-repeating pattern was discovered by Roger Penrose in 1974. The version you see here, with circular adornments, was designed by him in 2012. (Text from the plaque adjacent to the paving). Sir Roger Penrose was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2020 for his work on black holes.
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Location: Oxford, UK
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