Illustration of the newly discovered 3D chair-shaped space-filling object

New 3D 'Chair' Shape Discovered That Fills Space Without Repeating Patterns

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Software developer Ioannis Tsiokos has discovered a novel three-dimensional shape resembling a chair that can fill space infinitely without repeating patterns. This shape is the first of its kind to follow specific mathematical rules enabling such tiling in three dimensions. The discovery, assisted by AI, is detailed in a preprint paper on arXiv.

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