I had assumed animating Islamic tiles would be a big complicated endeavor but it only took a few hours of messing around in Flash to figure it out. I just made a half-equilateral-triangle mask and tiled it, then made a fairly simple animation underneath:
Obviously all kinds of variations can be made from here. If only I had tried this earlier!
The reason this is a Big Deal for me, is I didn’t know how easy it would be to tile squares with hexagons. I thought if I made a hex-based system like this I’d just get hexagons and equilateral triangles, not squares. But look – there are squares all over the place!
As assignment for the advanced now do the same with a real Penrose tiling …
Generous as usual in your sharing what your hard work (“easy” for you perhaps) learns….I just shared on Face book specifically targeted to another artist. Thank you.
Excellent. Now make the animated quilt of this.
I’ve done some distantly-analogous things with triangle tilings on the hyperbolic plane. Never occurred to me to try animating them!
Wow. You seem to be talented on both hemispheres. Impressive.
Love this! Might I use tiles-hex40squares1-640×360 as a background for a painting?