Convex Polygon Whirl Tessellations

A program to generate whirl patterns of convex polygons while tesselating the plane. Sample images generated include the following.

Square

Hexagon (with Holes!)

Triangle

Pentagon Type 14

Pentagon Type 15

Usage

Try out some preconfigured examples in the Makefile

> make help
help        Display this message.
tile-15     Create a pentagonal-15 tiling of the plane.
tile-14     Create a pentagonal-14 tiling of the plane.
square      Create a square tiling of the plane.
triangle    Create a triangular tiling of the plane.
hexagon     Create a hexagonal tiling of the plane.

or use the program directly via command line.

python main.py -h
usage: main.py [-h] W H polygon fpath whirl_iterations whirl_step

Create tesslations of pentagonal whirls.

positional arguments:
  W                 Width of tesselations in tiles.
  H                 Height of tesselations in tiles.
  polygon           Type of pentagon
  fpath             Type of pentagon
  whirl_iterations  Number of iterations to whirl a polygon inwards.
  whirl_step        Step size for each whirl.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit