stackyFACTSUsing just two distinctly shaped diamonds, you can tile an infinitely massive floor plane where the pattern is structurally guaranteed to never, ever perfectly loop or duplicate itself. It exhibits a deeply unnatural five-fold symmetry that aggressively refuses to yield to standard periodic geometry.
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