Patterns, history, and mathematics behind the tiles.
In 1722 a Carmelite friar turned Truchet's single diagonal tile into four letters — A, B, C, D — that write an infinity of patterns. All 72 of his designs, rendered live from their letters.
A live recreation of the dictionary of 256 little designs that closes Douat's 1722 book — every one rebuilt from its four-letter code.
A visual walkthrough of building a motif in layers, repeating it across the grid, and hiding layers to inspect the composition.
Beyond the classic square: recursive multiscale patterns, Truchet quilting, the 'Hello World' of generative art in p5.js, and fluid hexagonal mazes.
An interactive generator for regular and irregular combinations of every selectable Patchwork tile group.
A visual catalog of every selectable Patchwork tile group, with source notes, font previews, IDs, and orientations. Unmapped font glyphs are excluded.
How a French Dominican friar's observation about ceramic tiles became one of the most elegant systems for generating infinite geometric patterns — and how we recreated it with Patchwork.
