Larson Scanner - OpenProcessing

Been playing with Truchet tiles in Processing:

This is pretty random and messy but can be interesting. I plan on doing something a little cleaner and more tile-esque next.

Roughly speaking, a Truchet tile is a single tile that will match up with it's surrounding tiles regardless of it's position.  For example, this is a very basic one, rotated through all four possible angles:

Also, this:

See Sebastien Truchet on Wikipedia for more info, or Wolfram.

Some people have played with this concept to make some really amazing works, such as this on Flickr:

I haven't had much time to really focus on anything, but I have spent more time playing with Processing. My latest sketch involves repeating patterns of Bezier curves in interesting fashions. I'm trying to make something along the line of Truchet tiles, but I'm a long ways from that.

This time with trippy color trails floating around.

I spent most of the day watch Mister Rogers with our awesomely cute and Mr Rogers-loving toddler. Maybe in memory of him, my next sketch will involve King Friday XIII or a crayon factory.

Goddamnit I miss Mister Rogers, and I had no idea how awesome he was when I was a kid.

Just posted my first processing app Gravity Flock. I spent awhile playing around and finally just decided to publish it, but I'll probably have a couple variants up soon.

Processing is pretty awesome. It really simplifies the process of building a Java applet and tosses in some fairly good graphics libraries, and I have really enjoying experimenting with it.