Baiocchi Figures for Polycrowns

A crown is a figure made by moving two adjacent edges of a regular pentagon to form a concave pentagon:

A polycrown is a figure made by joining one or more crowns edge to edge. See Catalogue of Polycrowns. The terms crown and polycrown were introduced by Irmi Beyer.

A Baiocchi Figure for a polyform P is a polyform of the same kind that can be tiled by P and has the maximum symmetry for the kind of polyform. For polycrowns, this is 10-rotary symmetry plus mirror symmetry. Baiocchi Figures were proposed by Claudio Baiocchi. They first appeared in Erich Friedman's Math Magic for January 2008.

Here I show all known Baiocchi Figures for polycrowns with 1, 2, or 3 cells. If you find a Baiocchi Figure for another polycrown, please write.

See also Galvagni Figures for Polycrowns.

Monocrown

Dicrowns

Tricrowns

Last revised 2025-07-04.


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