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These two art pieces are based on the deformation of a hexagonal tiling into a topologically equivalent "tiling" composed of parts of concentric circles, all parts having the same area (third image). Selecting one hexagon as the center, we transform it into a circle of radius 1. Next concentric circle will hold the 6 adjacent tiles as sectors of rings. And so on, the circle of level n will have radius sqrt(1+3·n·(n+1)) (difference of radius when n tends to infinity approaches sqrt(3)). This map can be coloured with three colours, like the hexagonal tiling. For the artwork, suppose each sector of ring is in fact a sector of a circle hidden by inner pieces. Then choose a colour and delete all pieces not of this colour. Two distinct set of sectors can be produced, one choosing the central colour, one choosing another colour. Finally recolour the pieces according to its size.
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"Henry Dudeney [...] asked his readers to dissect an equilateral triangle into the smallest number of pieces that could be rearranged into a square.
[...]
Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution with fewer [than four] pieces is impossible. Their result was posted to the server arXiv.org in a December 2024 preprint entitled “Dudeney’s Dissection Is Optimal.”"

scientificamerican.com/article

On arXiv [ arxiv.org/abs/2412.03865 ]

Illustration of Shape shifting polygons
Scientific American · Mathematicians Find Proof to 122-Year-Old Triangle-to-Square PuzzleBy Lyndie Chiou