A ball based on the newly discovered Einstein shape 'The Hat'

A ball designed and based on the newly discovered Einstein shape "the hat".

#shorts

[munshipremchandfan]

fun fact, the tile is not called "Einstein" after the scientist, its named that because "Ein" means one and "Stein" means stone in German, so One Stone, as in, One Tile

[wjraggett]

He wasnt a mathematician. He was a graphic designer

[jonathangates]

Naming this 'the Hat trick' is just brilliant

[OctagonalSquare]

It’s so cool how so many shapes just need a pentagon to go from tiling a 2D plane to tiling a sphere

[geekieness]

I mean now you gotta send him a ball with that design lmao it would totally make his day!

[BaalFridge]

"The pentagon overpowers the hat"
I expected no less from the secret services

[helloworld]

this hurts my brain. the fact that it never repeats, what that even means, and the fact that someone somehow discovered this?? How does one even discover this? Crazy

[dbb]

"The pentagon renders the hat inert"
sounds like something outta anime

[ihaveacable]

Fantastic! Thank you for this wonderful rendition of the hat!

[derekhasabrain]

It’s so cool that it tiles aperiodically in the 2D plane, but fits really well around a sphere with the pentagons. Fascinating

[Aggressive_Progressive]

This calculation on it's own is also insane. A guy found a shape that breaks all patterns, and you broke the pattern breaker over a weekend. That's nutty dude!

[gabrielmckelvey]

Him pulling "The Hat Trick" for a name out of his pocket was phenomenal

[The-archive-of-knowledge]

If you turn it upside down it becomes a T-shirt

[costasbasdekis]

If you break up the middle pentagon into 5 pieces, and merge each piece to the hats, then you can tile the whole ball with the modified hat only, and so you'll have discovered a way to tile a ball with only one piece!

[WobblesandBean]

I love how the shape was discovered by a total hippie that wasn't a mathematician at all.

[opalpersonal]

these videos are so satisfying. the match cut editing really brings it all together.

[TheWaffleTM]

This man loves his craft, and that is what art should be

[Arizonadietgreentea]

Your word play is a very nice touch to your amazing talent

[nicolegleason]

“Up until a few weeks ago” the other spike in searches

[robjohnston]

Even more important, he and his Mathematician collaborators showed their is an INFINITE number of shapes that can 'cover the plane' aperiodically.
Until then only Physics/Maths Genius (& Nobel winner) Sir Roger Penrose had found a SINGLE shape to do the same thing ... "Penrose Tiling"!