repolygon

repolygon

Intricate tiling designs from repeated polygon matplotlib patches.

Core code & designs created by Sadie Bartholomew, June - October 2017 *

*code tidied & project (initially) uploaded to GitHub May 2019

Design Gallery

Eleven original example designs plus a recreation of, and variant on, the iconic carpet from the Kubrick film 'The Shining'.

Example designs shown in minimal tones

Emphasis here is on the geometrical form on the plane rather than the colour scheme and motif, mainly to demonstrate the basic capability of the repolygon program:

Example designs in full colour [in progress]

❗ Note: the logic for custom colouring of designs is currently under refactor, so most of the designs (all except 10 & 11) are shown with incomplete (but in some ways representative) colouring pending the finalisation of that code. See the section below for impressions of the colours that will be used after the refactor. ❗

These are [will be (see note above)] the final designs. For every case, the individual colour scheme & mapping of it onto the set of intersecting polygons (depicted in minimal tones in the section above) are considered an instrinsic part of the overall design:

Prototypes for the colouring of the final designs

These are the final designs as produced in minimal tones or outlines and then coloured using fill tools in a graphics editor. They show what the final designs will look like when the refactor of the colouring module is complete.

Prototypes for the designs incorporating curved patches

These are prototypes for designs which incorporate custom patches using matplotlib.path.Path, which often make use of curved lines via Bezier curves to join points in the patches (formed via CURVE3 and CURVE4 codes as described in the Path object API reference as linked) together. These patches aren't strictly polygons as per the project name, as the lines aren't all straight, but this flexibility allows further very interesting designs to be made.

As in the above section, the outlines have been coded using repolygon but the colours were, for now, added manually using an external graphcs editor.

Carpet from The Shining

Recreation and variant on the design of the iconic carpet from the Kubrick film 'The Shining':