Sunday, January 8, 2017

geometry - Tiling rectangles with X pentomino plus rectangles


Inspired by Polyomino Z pentomino and rectangle packing into rectangle


Also in this series: Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles


Tiling rectangles with N pentomino plus rectangles


Tiling rectangles with T pentomino plus rectangles


Tiling rectangles with U pentomino plus rectangles


Tiling rectangles with V pentomino plus rectangles


Tiling rectangles with W pentomino plus rectangles


The goal is to tile rectangles as small as possible with the X pentomino. Of course this is impossible, so we allow the addition of copies of a rectangle. For each rectangle $a\times b$, find the smallest area larger rectangle that copies of $a\times b$ plus at least one X-pentomino will tile. Example shown, with the $1\times 1$, you can tile a $3\times 3$ as follows:


X plus 1x1



Now we don't need to consider $1\times 1$ any longer as we have found the smallest rectangle tilable with copies of X plus copies of $1\times 1$.


I've only found two other solutions. I tagged it 'computer-puzzle' but some people can probably work both of these out by hand.



Answer



I think I've found a smaller one for 1x3:



a 15x10 = 150 solution:

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This one has a rather interesting generalization (see the third spoiler block there) for a different pentomino and rectangle size.


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