TIL Tiled.art. From the About page:
Site developer Rick Mohr says: “Like so many others I was captivated early on by the art of M.C. Escher. Decades later when investigating the world of tessellations to interest my son I was stunned by the capabilities of Kevin Lee’s TesselManiac, and fascinated by the explanations and art of Alain Nicolas.”
With further explorations the ideas for this site began to emerge:
Introduce visitors to the inspired work of tessellation artists from around the world.
Use the now-mature capabilities of web graphics to help people understand tessellation art through animations.
Give clear non-mathematical explanations of the symmetries and classification systems used in tessellation art.
Offer a full tessellation editor, with the option of adding detail using Inkscape.
Make everything work on a smartphone, to open the world of tessellation art to the millions of users without a desktop computer.
Fast-forward three years, hundreds of artworks, and tens of thousands of lines of code — welcome to Tiled.art!
Since I’ve been making some slight progress on my peyote project, I’ve always got an eye out for what feels like generative art. Seems like tessellations should fit into the processing mindset, but even if they don’t they’re pretty cool!
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