bit101 / truchet

truchet

A Go program to generate Truchet patterned images from existing pngs.

Usage: truch -i inputFile [-o outputFile] [-p pattern] [-t tileSize]

OutputFile defaults to "out.png"

TileSize defaults to 10

Pattern defaults to "a"

Valid patterns: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, x, y, z, 0

Examples (click on image to see full size):

Idea from the book Opt Art by Robert Bosch.

Tile patterns from The Tiling Patterns of Sebastien Truchet and the Topology of Structural Hierarchy by Cyril Stanley Smith and Pauline Boucher.