Glossary
- annulomer
- astrocyclomer
- astromer
- astromonomer
- connected
- informally, in one piece
- crystomer
- a polymer with with components
located in a regular grid.
- cyclomer
- a polymer with its components
arranged in a ring.
- decamer
- a polymer with 10 components.
- dendromer
- dodecamer
- a polymer with 12 components.
- tetramer
- a polymer with 4 components.
- endomer
- heptamer
- a polymer with 7 components.
- heteropolymer
- a polymer whose components do
not all have the same orientation.
- hexamer
- a polymer with 6 components.
- homeolineomer
- a polymer whose components are
arranged at regular intervals along a straight line, and whose components all
have the same orientation.
- homeopolymer
- a polymer whose components all have
the same orientation.
- intermer
- lineomer
- a polymer in which the components
are laid out in a straight line.
- metapolymer
- octamer
- a polymer with 8 components
- pentamer
- a polymer with 5 components
- polyabolo
- a figure composed of right isoceles triangles joined by common edges. Some
polyabolos are rep-tiles and IFS attractors.
- polyamid
- polyiamond
- a figure composed of equilateral triangles joined by common edges. Some
polyiamonds are rep-tiles and IFS attractors.
- polyking
- a figure composed of a subset of a square grid, the square making up the
polyomino being joined by common edges, or corners. Some polykings are
rep-tiles and IFS attractors.
- polymer
- a polymer is a simply connected IFS fractal of uniform measure which
consists of components differing only in position and location.
- polyomino
- a figure composed of a subset of a square grid, the square making up the
polyomino being joined by common edges. Some polyominos are rep-tiles and IFS
attractors.
- pseudopolymer
- rep-tile
- a plane tiling figure that can be dissected into smaller copies of itself,
all these copies being of the same size.
- Sierpinski triangle
- trivial name for the 0-cyclotrimer
- simply connected
- informally, in one piece and with no holes.
- tetramer
- a polymer with 4 components
- trimer
- a polymer with 3 components
© 2000, 2001 Stewart R. Hinsley