Hyper-packing is a term that describes the ability of a shape to contain by area more sub-shapes than its own area by overlapping the sub-shapes. The triangle containing 144 smaller triangles is the smallest triangle that can be tiled by the sphinx tile. Of the 830 different sphinx tilings of this triangle 6 are symmetric.
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== Summary == {{Information |Description={{en|Sphinx tile based graphic. Six identical triangles form the sphinx. The triangle was found by Walter Trump by sorting through all 830 T12 triangles. A excess packing of the shape is referred to has "hyper-p...
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