I was traveling to LA and back again this weekend to work on Karaoke Ice. As I was spending time sitting in airports and airplanes, staring off into space, I got a brain itch. I started thinking about Truchet Tiles. In 1704 a Dominican priest, named Sebastien came up with 4 tiles representing all the possible orientations of right triangles and started making some sweet patterns.

If you remove the colored side and just use a diagonal line, which would represent the border between the two triangles you can reduce it two a binary system.

At this point you start getting patterns that look like and are often used for creating labyrinths.

If you make two curves instead of straight lines, you get squiggly patterns like you see in nature. I wanted to make one. So I hacked this small flash app out on my plane ride back. You can click the tiles to “flip them”. I want to flush this into a full piece, right now it is still at the proof of concept stage. I was thinking this could be used to represent binary data, or bit reduced video. If you have any ideas, comments or suggestions please post.

Better Explanations: Wolfram, Count On

I call it squigglr

“er”s are for sukus