Project Notes

In 1704, Sebastien Truchet considered all possible patterns formed by tilings of right triangles oriented at the four corners of a square.

For a detailed explanation of Truchet Tiling visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastien_Truchet

The tiles are represented by the numbers:
1 = upper left corner right triangle
2 = upper right corner right triangle
3 = lower left corner right triangle
4 = lower right corner right triangle

Instructions:
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Select the block width and height for the repeating pattern. Start with a simple 2 by 2 tile pattern.

Press the green "Random Sequence" button to randomly pick a new tiling sequence.

Press the green "Set Sequence" button to enter in a digit sequence number representing the tiling pattern as described above For a 4 by 4 block, you can specify up to 16 digits. A 3 by 3 block will be 9 digits. If the digits repeat the same tile will be repeated.

Press the green flag to start tiling.


Some interesting sequences to try :
for a 2 by 2 block :
2413
1331
2442
for a 3 by 3 block :
312421243
321213132
214432123
for a 4 by 4 block :
3124421324311342

Note: the larger the block size, the larger the tesselation pattern will be.

Post your favorite tesselation sequences here.

The project is a remix of nevit's Tiling project on which it is based.