Tuesday, November 6, 2007

"GF2": New Pattern Generator

GF2 is a new pattern generator based on the visualization of a simple computer program. Not the output of the program, but the program itself. It produces a remarkable variety of designs and patterns, of which only a small fraction have been investigated. The full description will be in a forthcoming paper (TBD).

Unfortunately, the small swatches below don't do the full image justice. Click to see the larger image.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Truchet Curved Oddbals

These are mutations of the previous post. Some looks good. Some, well maybe not as much

Truchet '45 adaptor'

Remember those adaptors for 45 records so they'd play on 'normal' record players. Ok good, then you'll understand why this is called "45". Do those things have a real name?

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Punchouts

This truchet tiling produces odd shaped "punchouts." At higher resolutions, the autocoloring is not as interesting as the just the outline.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Colorized Truchet Tiles, part 1

Colorized versions for some of the Truchet tilings previously shown.

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