In the new Community Puzzle Unfolding Paper are 3 testcases missing.
You can break the problem down to a number sequence and notice, that startpieces are missing.
For a complete puzzle you need startpieces where
- a startpiece pattern touches only left and right
- a startpiece pattern touches only left and right and the top
- a startpiece pattern touches only left and right and bottom
These pieces can’t be created by other startpieces (believe me, i can proof!) and loop in each other.
if you unfold a pattern with case1 you get 2 times the pattern of case1
if you unfold a pattern with case2 you get 1 times the pattern of case1
if you unfold a pattern with case3 you get a pattern of case3 and a pattern of case2
Therefore a startpattern like
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..#..
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would create full test coverage after unfolding it 3 times.
Sorry for my bad english and have a nice day,
Essigautomat