Spectre - Aperiodic Chiral Monotile

A parametrized version of the newly discovered Spectre, an Aperiodic Chiral Monotile.
50m
9× print file
0.25 mm
0.40 mm
10.00 g
26
150
4
947
updated May 1, 2024

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A parametrized version of the newly discovered Spectre, an Aperiodic Chiral Monotile.

See: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/spectre/ for more details about this shape.

This version includes the OpenScad file, so you can modify the “polygon side length”, the “thickness of the line”, the “height of the tile” and the “amplitude of the waves” and the “frequency of the waves”.

I also provide several ready-to-slice examples of usage that consume few grams of material.

UPDATE (2023-06-01): Improved version of the OpenScad file. More variants coming soon!

UPDATE (2023-06-04): More examples and variants:

  • Straight variants: The easiest way to understand the underlying geometry of the tiles, and the only variant that allows you to flip some tiles to make a periodic tiling. They have a border to highlight the right orientation. You can print this border in another color with a simple color-change. 
  • Wavy variants: The simplest way to enforce aperiodicity in the tiles without color changes. Introduces half sine wave in every tile edge.
  • Very wavy variants: One of the most popular version around internet those days. Introduces a sine wave in every tile edge.
  • Bilayer variant: The best of both worlds, you get straight lines in one side of the tiles and wavy edges in the other. Doesn't require supports and make the tiles fit together, so you can move the whole patch around in one piece!

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Model origin

The author remixed this model.

Differences of the remix compared to the original

This is a different figure, but was created using the OpenScad script included in the remixed model as a base.

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