[seqfan] Re: Counting polyominoes with peculiar symmetry

Alex Meiburg timeroot.alex at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 03:25:31 CEST 2021


One relevant question, when you say "isomorphic", do you only consider that
under plane rotations? Or reflections too?

For example, for a T-shaped polyomino, the two are only isomorphic if you
include reflections.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 18:20 Allan Wechsler <acwacw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Take a polyomino and mark each of its square cells by drawing one of its
> two diagonals. But once you choose the first diagonal, all the others are
> forced because I require these diagonal markings to meet at their
> endpoints. (That is, /\ is fine, but // isn't allowed.)
>
> Depending on your choice of the first diagonal, you can mark up any
> polyomino in two ways, but sometimes these two ways turn out to be
> isomorphic. That only happens for polyominoes that have some symmetry, but
> it doesn't happen for all symmetric polyominoes, just some of them.
>
> By my hand count, the number of qualifying polyominoes of orders 1 through
> 6 are:
>
> 1,1,1,3,4,10
>
> But I am not sure of the hexomino number. None of the 11 matches at OEIS
> say anything about polyominoes.
>
> I hope some polyomino counters out there understand what I mean, and can
> verify or contradict my counts, and tell me whether the resulting sequence
> is already in OEIS or not.
>
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