Introduction

The SquareTiling application provides an interactive graphical interface to visualize periodic tilings composed of repeated square-based geometric patterns.

SquareTiling includes tiles like Greek key, Islamic stars, octagons, checkers, fractals, Truchet patterns, Wang tiling, tartan and interlaced motifs, which can be tiled across the application panel in real time.

You can adjust tile size, choose from four customizable colors, preview individual tiles, export the resulting tiling as a PNG image and view the gallery of implemented tiles. All tiles are implemented using standard Java 2D classes.

Create your own tile using user mode that allows you to draw lines and arcs, fill colors, build and visualize your own tilings in real time.

How to run

Run 'ant' command to compile and run the SquareTiling application.

Screenshot

Islamic tile example:

User mode example:

Tiles gallery:

Tilings

The following tilings are available:

Method	Description
drawGreekTile	Greek Pattern
drawIslamicStarTile1/2/3	Layered/Quartered/Eightfold Islamic Stars
drawInterlockingTile	Interlocking Squares
drawOctagramTile	Large and Narrow Octagram
drawOctagonTile	Octagons & Squares; Octagon & Rhombus
drawSquaresTile	Squares and Rhombus
drawTartanTile	Tartan
drawCrossedTile	Crossed Square
drawInterlacedTile	Interlaced Circles
drawLabyrinthTile	Labyrinth pattern
drawTruchetTile	Truchet pattern #2, #3, #4
drawWangTile	Wang tiling
drawBlockFractal	Block Fractal
drawHilbertFractal	Hilbert Fractal
drawFractalPolygon	Polygon Fractal
drawGridSquareCircles	Grid Squares & Circles
drawSquareSpiralTile	Square Spiral
drawSpiderWebTile	Spider Web
drawCheckeredTile	Checkered

How to use methods from other Java AWT apps

Methods described in previous sections requires Java AWT. These methods are static and can be invoked as in the following example:

Tiles.drawGreekTile(g2d, colors, x, y, size);

Where g2d is a reference to Graphics2D, x and y are the origin for the tile, size is the size of square tile. Some methods may have additional parameters to control specific features of the tile.