Baiocchi Figures for Discherers

Introduction

A Scherer Quadrangle is a plane figure made by joining an equilateral triangle to a leg of an isosceles right triangle:

Its interior angles are 45°, 105°, 60°, and 150°. It was first studied by Dr. Karl Scherer.

A discherer is a polyform formed by joining two Scherer quadrangles at equal edges. There are 14 discherers, identifying mirror images:

A Baiocchi Figure for a polyform P is a polyform made by joining copies of P and having the maximum symmetry for that class of polyforms. For polyscherers this is 12-fold rotary symmetry with reflection.

Here I show a minimal known Baiocchi Figure, if any, for each discherer.

6 Tiles

12 Tiles

24 Tiles

48 Tiles

Unsolved

Impossible

Last revised 2025-10-15.


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