Einstein tiling visualization

DISCLAIMER: This is still work in progress.

Visualization of the "hat" aperiodic monotile tiling discovered by David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798.

This is a WebAssembly web app built in Rust. The latest version is hosted here: https://einstein.demos.aborghi.fr.

Development

Dependencies

Before building the code, you will need to install the following dependencies:

• The Rust programming language

  After installing rustup, you will need to add the wasm32-unknown-unknown toolchain. For this, run:

  $ rustup toolchain install wasm32-unknown-unknown
  

• wasm-bindgen-cli

  To install, run:

  $ cargo install -f wasm-bindgen-cli
  

Building

This has been tested on Linux but will normally work on any Unix-like OS. On Windows you'll have to either use WSL or replicate the steps from build.sh manually.

To build, run the build script:

$ ./build.sh

The generated files are placed in the docs folder.

Warning: the docs folder isn't entirely generated by the build script. Only einstein_tiling_bg.wasm and einstein_tiling.js are. So don't delete the entire docs folder.

Running

After building, the docs folder can be served using any web server. If you don't have any, I recommend static-web-server for development.