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Pentomino Applet
Fill up a given area using pentomino shapes, rotating and flipping them. Three levels of difficulty.[Java].
http://www.fwend.com/pentomino.htm
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Java pentominoes
Thery families web site with pentomino solver. (English/French)[Java].
http://www.thery.free.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=44
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Somatic
A solver for arbitrary polyomino and polycube puzzles. Binary code and source downloads available.
http://www.moerig.com/somatic/
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Counting Horizontally Convex Polyominoes
Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 2 (1999), Article 99.1.8. Defines and counts horizontal convexity.
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/HICK2/chcp.html
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What is a Golygon?
Harry Smith describes Dr. Dewdney's article in the July 1990 Scientific American's Mathematical Recreations column.
http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/Golygons/GolyWhat.html
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Puzzle Fun
Newsletter edited by Rodolfo Kurchan about pentominoes and other math problems.
http://www.eldar.org/~problemi/pfun/pfun.html
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Blocking Polyominos
Rodolfo Kurchan searches the smallest polyomino such that a particular number of copies can form a blocked pattern. With solutions.
http://www.eldar.org/~problemi/pfun/blocked.html
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Canonical Polygons
Ronald Kyrmse investigates grid polygons in which all side lengths are one or sqrt(2).
http://sti.br.inter.net/rkyrmse/canonic-e.htm
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Pentominos Puzzle Solver
David Eck's graphical solver applet uses recursive technique. Source code available. [Java]
http://math.hws.edu/xJava/PentominosSolver/
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Sqfig and Sqtile
Eric Laroche presents computer programs for generating polyominoes and polyomino tilings. Includes source codes in C, and binaries.
http://www.lrdev.com/lr/c/sqfig.html
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