The line is from
Paradise Regained; I found it because I was looking for
pentameter lists of nouns. The first search result for "rhombs and wedges," however, is the
Tilings Encyclopedia, a repository of
Penrose tilings and other aperiodic (mostly
substitution) tilings of the plane, such as the (new-to-me)
pinwheel patterns of Radin and Conway and others, and their relatives, like this
kite-domino tiling:
(The pinwheel tilings have the property that every tile appears at least once in every possible orientation.)
[PS a topic I've been paying some attention to lately is the existence of
quasicrystalline, i.e., Penrose-tiling-ish, solutions to certain packing problems, which are interesting as statistical physics. For prev. coverage of this see
here and
here.]
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