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Justin Pombrio

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I received a PhD from Brown University. My research was mainly in programming languages with a focus on syntactic sugar, but also included CS education.

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Penrose Mazes (2020)

Mazes are typically constructed on regular grids: square, triangular, hexagonal, etc. But what if you generate a maze on top of a Penrose tiling, which is guaranteed to be irregular? (It is an aperiodic tiling .) The resulting mazes have a very characteristic appearance: they are filled with circles and stars, but the…