pentominoes


pentominoes, a Python code which forms or plots any of the 12 members of the pentomino family, shapes formed from 5 adjacent squares.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

pentominoes is available in a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

polyominoes, a Python code which defines, solves, and plots a variety of polyomino tiling problems, which are solved by a direct algebraic approach involving the reduced row echelon form (RREF) of a specific matrix, instead of the more typical brute-force or backtracking methods.

Reference:

  1. Solomon Golomb,
    Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings,
    Princeton University Press, 1996,
    ISBN: 9780691024448

Source Code:


Last revised on 17 January 2022.