Great software for Tilings, Patterns, Symmetry

girih app

Hexagonal Grids

A tutorial on everything about hexagonal grids. Coordinate system, finding path, etc.

Hyperplay

Kali (wallpaper symmetry)

http://www.geometrygames.org/Kali/index.html Windows Mac OS 9

Kali by Jeff Weeks. It is a interactive program for drawing figures of plane symmetry.

Taprats

[Computer Graphics and Geometric Ornamental Design 2002 By Craig S Kaplan. At https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/other/phd/]

Books

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  Tilings and Patterns Book

Mathematica PlaneTiling

Geometry: Plane Tiling Mathematica Package

PlaneTiling is a Mathematica package for tiling and symmetry illustrations. Author is Xah Lee (me). Requires Mathematica to run.

For more programs that does symmetry or tiling related topic, see Wallpaper groups: References and Related Web Sites .

RepTiles

http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/people/delgado/welcome.html Mac OS 9

RepTiles v.2.0.1 is a plane tiling shareware written by two mathematicians Daniel H Huson and ?.

The program is capable of generating all possible periodic tiling of the plane.

By the words of the authors:

… for interactively designing and systematically generating periodic 2-dimensional tilings and patterns, study symmetry and 2-dimensional geometry, if you are a mathematician, enumerate possible 2-dimensional crystal-structures, if you are a crystallographer or chemist, design complex and interesting patterns, if you are a designer, or explore a whole new world of fascinating periodic structures, if you are, well, just interested.

This program is a bit mathematical, but can be fun for layperson. It is a rare tool for crystallographer and mathematicians. URL: ftp://ftp.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/math/tiling/reptiles/. (Note: This program is from 1995 era. The software downloaded from the ftp site is missing data files, making the software not usable. I don't have a copy of it.)

Bob (Penrose tiling)

Bob is a Windows program that does Penrose tilings, by Stephen Collins at http://www.stephencollins.net/Penrose/Default.aspx Windows

Tyler (tiling)

http://www.superliminal.com/geometry/tyler/gallery/ Java

Tyler is a Java applet that draw tilings. It is written by Melinda Green and Don Hatch.

Escher Web Sketch

http://escher.epfl.ch/escher/ Java

Escher Web Sketch. This is a Java program that lets user interactively draw symmetrical patterns. By Wes Hardaker and Gervais Chapuis.

Tess

http://www.peda.com/tess/Welcome.htmlMac OS 9 Windows

Tess is a symmetry-drawing program made by Pedagoguery Software Inc. Available for Mac and Windows.