"Tessellate" - song by the British alternative indie pop quartet Alt-J (∆).
This makes it trivial to prove that the complete set of decominoes cannot be packed into a rectangle, and that not all decominoes can be tiled.
This makes it trivial to prove that the complete set of octominoes cannot be packed into a rectangle, and that not all octominoes can be tiled.
Around the same time period, Ron Resch patented some tessellation patterns as part of his explorations into kinetic sculpture and developable surfaces, although his work was not known by the origami community until the 1980s.