Truchet Tiles

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Truchet Tiles

Truchet tiles are a way to make art out of interlocking square images. Each square has connection points on all four sides, which lets them fit together in any rotation or configuration.

To celebrate Genuary 6 which had a theme of “steal like an artist”, I collaborated with the lovely and talented Ariel, who drew these squares:

And then I wrote this sketch which randomly rotates the tiles and places them in a grid:

Click here to edit this code in the p5.js editor.

Here are some example outputs:

randomly colored truchet tiles small randomly colored truchet tiles pastel truchet tiles animated truchet tiles

Remix Ideas

  • Use your own images as tiles.
  • Instead of drawing images randomly, use a for loop to position them in a grid.
  • Instead of replacing images, start with one set and then rotate them over time.
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Genuary 19 Genuary 19

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Image Tiles Image Tiles

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Pixel Swapper Pixel Swapper

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Clovers Clovers

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Poorly Coded Cats Poorly Coded Cats

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Truchet Tiles Truchet Tiles

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Add Your Own Example Add Your Own Example

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