Great software for Tilings, Patterns, Symmetry
A list of interactive, visual, easy-to-use software or tilings and patterns.
girih app
![girih tiling app 6792f](i/girih_tiling_app_6792f.jpg)
Hexagonal Grids
![hexagonal grids patel 9c2d9](i/hexagonal_grids_patel_9c2d9.png)
A tutorial on everything about hexagonal grids. Coordinate system, finding path, etc.
Hyperplay
![hyperplay 2014-09-13](i/hyperplay_2014-09-13.png)
Kali (wallpaper symmetry)
![Kali screenshot](i/Kali_screenshot.png)
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
![taprats tiling 9pqgm](i/taprats_tiling_9pqgm.jpg)
[Computer Graphics and Geometric Ornamental Design By Craig S Kaplan. At https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/other/phd/]
Books
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Mathematica PlaneTiling
![plane tiling mathematica 2016-05-04 35001](../MathGraphicsGallery_dir/PlaneTilingPackageDemo_dir/plane_tiling_mathematica_2016-05-04_35001.png)
WolframLang: Plane Tiling 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
![repTilesScreen](i/repTilesScreen.png)
http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/people/delgado/welcome.html
Mac OS 9
![repTilesIcon](i/repTilesIcon.png)
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)
![Stephen Collins's app Penrose tiling](i/bob1.png)
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
![tess by pedagoguery software 88e95](i/tess_by_pedagoguery_software_88e95.gif)
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.