Truchet tiles

[miriam_e]

They are very, very cool.
I whipped up a quick little experiment in html here.
(Note that you need javascript enabled for this to work.)

Comments

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

It's neat to see what happens to rotations of shapes/patterns on a group of tessellated, regular polygons. I hadn't realised mathematicians were into that sort of thing so long ago...Truchet makes Sierpinski look relatively modern. Then-again, it's interesting to compare it with Celtic knotwork.

You really should have a look at the software a friend/housemate, Paul, writes. His blog has some interesting stuff...visually and mathematically beautiful.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Wow! His stuff is amazing! Thanks for pointing me to it. It had never occurred to me that tiles could be computationally complete. What an astonishing concept. I shall have to think more on that later.

He has a lot of other neat stuff on his site too. Gosh this is going to keep me going for ages. Now I just need a few more lifetimes to be able to absorb this and all the other coolness I keep coming across.

I am interested in his sound processing stuff too.

[apocraphilia.livejournal.com]

That's really cool - remind me of this game, while the use of JavaScript reminds me of a little something I prepared earlier.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Neat! That GridGame on DeviantArt is entrancing... a little like John Conway's game of Life.

I love your tile game. Mucho addictive. I don't play games, but I spent the best part of half an hour on it. That is a high compliment from me. I'll have to show it to my parents. They both enjoy computer puzzle games.