Read all about it in the aperiodical!
I admit that I don't know much about aperiodical tiling. Unlike tessellations, aperiodical tiling doesn't repeat. If you take kites and darts and make Penrose tiling, you can start with a nice flower (call it a rose or a penrose, if you will) and expand outward, but the patterns will never repeat.
The tridecagon shown in the comic is a "new" shape, recently discovered, that doesn't tessellate. It creates tiles that do not repeat. This is of interest because unlike kites and darts, this is a single polygon. That's something new.
It's called a polykite and is referred to as a "hat". I used both references, although I didn't manage a "pass the hat" quip. And, yes, like Polywhirl and Polycarp, I think that Polykite sounds like it sound evolve into another shape.
Or, since it's Geometry, maybe it should "transform".
Such a transformation likely wouldn't be a rigid motion. But the tiling definitely is.
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