Wang Tiles

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Wang Tiles (or Wang dominoes) are a class of formal mathematical systems first proposed by Hao Wang in 1961. They consist of equal-sized square tiles with colored edges that are arranged side-by-side on a regular grid.

When placing tiles to cover an infinite plane, you must strictly follow three structural constraints:

  • Orientation: Tiles must be placed with a fixed orientation and cannot be rotated or reflected.
  • Edge Matching: Adjoining edges of touching tiles must share the exact same color.
  • Grid Alignment: Every tile must occupy exactly one square in a standard square grid.

Busy Beaver function

Define the score of a set of Wang tiles as the largest d such that it can tile a dxd square, or 0 if there is no largest d.

Then BB_WT(n) = the maximum score over all n-tile sets.

n Value Champion
1 1 TODO
2 2 TODO
3 3 TODO
4 ≥ 4 TODO
5 ≥ 6 TODO
6 ≥ 8 TODO