Published on: 2025-06-12 00:49:58
Over eight years ago I created the Polyomino Tiler (a browser application that attempts to tile arbitrary grids with sets of polyominoes), but I haven't ever written about the algorithm it uses. If any aspects of what follows are confusing, it may help to play with the polyomino tiler a bit to get a better idea for what it's doing. There are a couple aspects of the problem that combine to make it challenging: the set of available polyominos is fully customizable up to the heptominoes; each po
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