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Symmetry2012,4,545-565;doi:10.3390/sym4030545 OPENACCESS symmetry ISSN2073-8994 /journal/symmetry Article BarrelPseudotilings UndineLeopold DepartmentofMathematics,NortheasternUniversity,Boston,MA02115,USA; E-Mail:leopold.u@;Tel.:+1-617-373-5655;Fax:+1-617-373-5658 Received:29June2012;inrevisedform:13August2012/Accepted:19August2012/ Published:30August2012 Abstract: This paper describes 4-valent tiling-like structures, called pseudotilings, composedofbarreltilesandapeirogonalpseudotilesinEuclidean3-space.These(frequently face-to-face) pseudotilings naturally rise in columns above 3-valent p