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Multi-Scale Truchet Patterns

Recipe Start with the set of "winged" tiles shown below. The content of a tile is shown within the dotted lines. "Wings" extend beyond the content area. (The gray background is not part of the tile, but is included so you can see the boundary of the white parts.) Successive tiles in the set are…

Truchet p5js Sketch

A web editor for p5.js, a JavaScript library with the goal of making coding accessible to artists, designers, educators, and beginners.

Generalized Truchet Tiles

This notebook algorithmically generates Truchet tiles (technically Smith tiles), and the centers of Truchet-Carlson winged tiles. It generalizes square tiles to different polygon shapes (triangles and hexagons). Tile Variants Connected Edge Centers The simplest tiles connect the centers of edges. This allows tiles to be chosen independently of their neighbors. For a square, there are only three possibilities: (The set of generated square tiles includes the "+" tile, which is not a Smith tile. I am allowing
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