Pentahex Oddities

A pentahex oddity is a plane figure with binary symmetry formed by joining an odd number of copies of a pentahex. Here are the minimal known oddities for the pentahexes. Please write if you find a smaller solution or solve an unsolved case.

See also Trihex Oddities, Tetrahex Oddities, and Hexahex Oddities. Mike Reid helped a lot with the pentahex oddities.

Click on the gray figures to expand them.

[ Basic Oddities [ Holeless Variants | Composite Solutions | Nontrivial Variants | Mirror-Symmetric Tilings ]

Basic Oddities

Rowwise Bilateral Columnwise Bilateral BirotaryDouble
Bilateral
Sextuple
Rotary
Full
1
9
11
11
   
1
9
       
1
3
5

Mike Reid
5

Mike Reid
11

Mike Reid
11

Mike Reid
1
9
9
9
   
3
5
7
11

(after Mike Reid)
29
29
3
3
7
11
23
29
1
1
1
1
59
89
3
3
5
7

Mike Reid
29
 
3
3
5

Mike Reid
9
17
35
3
3
5

Mike Reid
9

Mike Reid
17
23
3
3
3
5

Mike Reid
17
29
3
3
5
7
11

Mike Reid
11

Mike Reid
5
1
11
15
41
47

Mike Reid
3
5
7
11
23
35
7
3
1
7
   
9
1
       
3
1
23
23
   
3
1
7
7
35
47
7

(squashed by Mike Reid)
1
9
9
53
53
1
1
1
1
101
 
3
5
7
9
17
17
5
5
7
15
17
17

Holeless Variants

Rowwise Bilateral

Columnwise Bilateral

Birotary

Double Bilateral

Sextuple Rotary

Full

Composite Solutions

Some pentahexes without oddities for certain symmetries can be paired to form oddities.

Helmut Postl and Johann Schwenke found some of these full-symmetric oddities.

Birotary

9 Tiles

Double Bilateral

11 Tiles

Sextuple Rotary

11 Tiles

17 Tiles

23 Tiles

35 Tiles

41 Tiles

Full

11 Tiles

17 Tiles

23 Tiles

29 Tiles

35 Tiles

41 Tiles

53 Tiles

59 Tiles

Nontrivial Variants

These tilings are irreducible and have more than one tile.

Rowwise Bilateral

Columnwise Bilateral

Birotary

Mirror-Symmetric Tilings

Mike Reid found that this full-symmetry oddity for the Q pentahex can be tiled with vertical mirror symmetry!

After Mike told me that a smaller solution probably existed, I found this one:

Last revised 2024-10-29.


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