Escher tilings, straight from a prompt.
This is a front end for the SIGGRAPH 2024 Generative Escher Meshes code. Your GPU server does the optimization; this page just drives it.
01 — Wallpaper symmetry group
All 17 wallpaper groups, labelled with their crystallographic (IUC) name. Hexagonal entries are shape variants of the same group as their parent.
Translation only
Mirrors & glides
2-fold rotation
4-fold rotation
3-fold rotation
6-fold rotation
Special / debug
02 — Prompt
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