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  2. Penrose tiling - Wikipedia

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    Penrose's first tiling uses pentagons and three other shapes: a five-pointed "star" (a pentagram), a "boat" (roughly 3/5 of a star) and a "diamond" (a thin rhombus). [28] To ensure that all tilings are non-periodic, there are matching rules that specify how tiles may meet each other, and there are three different types of matching rule for the ...

  3. Boötes - Wikipedia

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    The tertiary is a magnitude 12.6 star (though it may be observed to be brighter) and the quaternary is a magnitude 13.6 star. [40] Pi Boötis is a close triple star. The primary is a blue-white star of magnitude 4.9, the secondary is a blue-white star of magnitude 5.8, [8] and the tertiary is a star of magnitude 10.4. [40]

  4. Kite - Wikipedia

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    Various kites being flown Star-shaped kite above a meadow south of Hockenheim. This sparless, ram-air inflated kite, has a complex bridle formed of many strings attached to the face of the wing. A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces. [2]

  5. Yeonnalligi - Wikipedia

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    After the rebellion of high officials bidam and yeomjong, a huge star has fallen in weolseong, that the queen is scared and the hearts of the people that are governed are distraught, the general made a scarecrow and flown it with the kite to make it look like the star is rising back to the sky. [citation needed]

  6. Thai kites - Wikipedia

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    Chula kite is in the shape of five rays of a star which made from five sticks of Seesuk (Thai: สีสุก) bamboo wood. The longest stick called “Petch mai” (Thai: เพชรไม้) is used to make the center line of kite and other two sticks are used to make the wing parts and the left to make the leg parts.

  7. Kite types - Wikipedia

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    If the kites making up the arch kite rotate using the Magnus effect the term also applied is rainbow kite or just bow kite or kite bow or "sky bow" or SkyBow; one form of the rotating arch or rainbow kite is the ribbon kite (in one or multiple segments). Swivels in the line are important.

  8. Allsopp Helikite - Wikipedia

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    A Helikite lifting a gyro-stabilized camera. The Allsopp Helikite is a kite balloon or kytoon designed by Sandy Allsopp in the United Kingdom in 1993. [1] This Helikite comprises a combination of a helium balloon and a kite to form a single, aerodynamically sound, tethered aircraft, that utilises both wind and helium for its lift.

  9. Peter Lynn - Wikipedia

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    Kite buggying has become a popular worldwide sport. Inside the 1997 World's Largest Kite. The thru cord system for holding the kite profile are the cords that run from the 'ceiling' to the 'floor' In 1994 he developed the 'super-ripstop/thru cord' ram air kite construction system for large display and traction kites.