This applet is an interactive demonstration of cut-and-project tiling.
Cut-and-project tilings are made by a 2-dimensional plane cutting through a higher dimensional square lattice. Lattice points in the neighborhood of the cutting plane are projected onto the plane and connected by edges to create the tiling. The well-known Penrose tiling is among the many tilings that can be generated this way.
Explanation of controls and how it works.
Check out a small gallery of examples.
This applet includes a WebAssembly implementation of the tiling generator. That piece is written in Rust and uses wasm-bindgen and wasm-pack to build the wasm module. Until browser support for wasm-modules-as-ES6-modules improves, the easiest way to use a wasm module is with a bundler like webpack.
Prerequisites:
-
Install Rust and cargo
-
Install node and npm
-
Install wasm-pack
-
Install project dependencies:
npm install
To run dev server:
npm run start
To run dev server in debug mode:
npm run debug
To build for deployment (into dist subdirectory):
npm run build
I drew inspiration from Quasitiler. My favorite feature borrowed from it is the axis control rosette. Before that, I was trying to control the orientation of the cutting plane with angles, and Quasitiler's way is far superior.