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The article is written for the special journal issue dedicated to Alan L. Mackay on his 90th birthday. The remarkable ideas of Alan L. Mackay about generalized crystallography, its connections with encoding of information, and also the interrelationship between art and science generate many ideas and their consequences. Mackay paid a special attention to the theme of five-fold symmetry, Fibonacci...