However, multiple occurrences of these patterns means that the shape can be further broken down into smaller components. Fano discovered the first of these “atomic” shapes back in the 1930s .

This handout image released by The University of Waterloo on June 9, 2023, shows a tile shape which from the left tile fades into “the specter,” which has curved edges, and was recently ...

Soon after discovering the shape in November 2022, he contacted a math professor and later, with two other academics, they released a self-published scientific paper about it.