Shifting Ammann in Brightest Orange

The Ammann tiling is a non-periodic tiling of the plane discovered by amateur mathematician Robert Ammann in the 1970s. Like the Penrose tiling, it fills the plane without ever repeating, but with its own distinct geometry.

This piece uses the notion of Parquet deformation over the Ammann-Beenker tiling to generating a loop of shifting patterns.

The pattern at the left end of the 52-foot wall is the Ammann tiling; so is the pattern at the right end; and every intermediate cross-section is a smooth shifting of the local structure while maintaining the long range order..

Of course the title and color were chosen due to its location, `brightest orange’ being the OSU color.