Filling a box with translates of two bricks.
Sets which simultaneously tile Rn by applying powers of an invertible matrix and translations by a lattice are studied. Diagonal matrices A for which there exist sets that tile by powers of A and by integer translations are characterized. A sufficient condition and a necessary condition on the dilations and translations for the existence of such sets are also given. These conditions depend in an essential way on the interplay between the eigenvectors of the dilation matrix and the translation lattice...
We consider analogies between the "cut-and-project" method of constructing quasicrystals and the theory of almost periodic functions. In particular an analytic method of constructing almost periodic functions by means of convolution is presented. A geometric approach to critical points of such functions is also shown and illustrated with examples.