This page lists some wonderful, interactive, visual, easy-to-use software that generates decorative planar patterns or its study. In particular, software that draws periodic tilings, penrose tilings, Arabic weavings, or drawing programs that draw based on mathematical analysis of symmetry.
★ “Bob” is a Windows program that does Penrose tilings, by Stephen Collins. http://www.stephencollins.net/Web/Penrose/Default.aspx (2004-01,2006-08) Win
2002-10. ★ Taprats is a Java applet that generates Islamic patterns. Excellent. Craig S Kaplan! Home page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/csk/taprats/Java
★ Tyler is a Java applet that draws tilings. Superb! It is written by Melinda Green and Don Hatch. http://www.superliminal.com/geometry/tyler/gallery/ Java
★ Kali (Mac screenshot is a freeware by Jeff Weeks. It is a interactive program for drawing figures of plane symmetry. The program is so appealing that it is suitable for grade-level kids too. A user selected symmetry pattern automatically appears based on whatever you draw on the screen. Mac and Windows versions at: http://www.geometrygames.org/Kali/index.html.MacWin
★ Escher Web Sketch by Wes Hardaker and Gervais Chapuis. This is a Java program that lets user interactively draw symmetrical patterns. http://escher.epfl.ch/escher/, 2007-02-23. Java
★ Tilings and Geometric Ornament by Craig S Kaplan. Craig is a accomplished programer and researcher in computer graphics. He has done some research on programs that generates decorative patterns. In this site, you'll see his work on Taprats, which is a program that generates Islamic star patterns, and also his programs that generates decorative patterns based on Voronoi diagrams, and other works. Included is his technical publications on these subjects. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/phd/ Java
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