Socolar Tiling
May 10, 2025
An aperiodic tiling is a pattern that covers the plane without ever repeating itself (i.e., it is non-periodic). A few special shapes, arranged according to specific rules, can cover the entire plane, but the resulting pattern never repeats exactly. I challenged myself on a 3-day coding sprint to create a general-purpose script in Grasshopper that could generate these tilings. I set Socolar Tiling as my first target. This link contains great information about this and many other aperiodic tilings. Socolar…