VRML TileTool

by Sandy Ressler

National Institute of Standards and Technology

This form sets the parameters for a program which will return a VRML file of a Penrose aperiodic tilings. The variable names are only moderatly descriptive. You have to try it to see the effects.

Dimensionality - a complexity control

3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21

Levels - how spread out the tiling goes

0 1 2 3 4 5

Centrally Symmetric

No Yes

Outline - outlines each rhombus (increases file size dramatically)

No Yes

Zvalues - flag to set a z position value

No Yes

Zincrement - controls how spread out in z the rhombus' are placed

0 1 10 20 50 100 1000

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