dimer

Generation of Random Lozenge Tilings

Installation

• Clone this repository using https://github.com/adamov1/dimer
• SVG rendering depends on Cairo.

Setup

install libcairo2-dev

$ sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev

clone repository

$ git clone https://github.com/adamov1/dimer

once in repository, compile using Makefile

$ make

Usage

To generate SVG, run

$ ./tile <destination_file> <size> <linewidth> <arctic_circle> <a> <b> <c>

Parameters

• <destination_file>: filename of output
• <size>: height of image (in px)
• <linewidth>: thickness of borders around tiles (set to be 0.0 if you want borderless)
• <arctic_circle>: set as true or false depending on whether you want to highlight the arctic circle
• <a> <b> <c>: determine the dimensions of the hexagon