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(top) After a very little shuffling of this frying-pan, the little patatoes convert their pattern into a remarkable simple one.
(bottom) Except for the peripheral ones, no patatoe has less than 5 neighbours, and their is no patatoe with more than 7. Morerover, notice the alignment of many patatoes, like the ones at the edge in the bottomleft. These lines are part of patatoes in 60º or 90º (less abundant and less dense) grids.