Polyform Compatibility

    A maddening identity of the big picture is arrived at without using any similar pieces.
—Arpad Arutinov, The Back Door of History
The Compatibility Problem is to construct a figure that can be tiled with each of a set of polyforms.

A Galvagni Figure is a figure that can be tiled with a given polyform in more than one way.

A Baiocchi Figure is a connected figure with the maximum symmetry for its class that can be tiled with a given polyform.

Pairwise Compatibility Multiple Compatibility Galvagni Figures Baiocchi Figures Cell Shifting Remembrance of Software Past

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