Penrose tilings

Choose a vertex

You choose a vertex, current vertex is in red square. When you choose a vertex, your tiling is rebuild at current level

Decomposition's level

You choose a level, current level is in red square. You can work on losanges in levels 1L, 2L, 3L ......

You can see animation about decomposition to level 2.

When you move control points, don't use too high level if you want to see tiling in real time..

Modify the paths

By click on paths, you create control points that you can move to modify kite and dart ( control points are red circles ). You can see your tiling in real time.

 

Load, save and print

  You can retrieve ( after confirmation ) original kite and dart, save your work ( You have to give a name for the file ), load existing work, save tiling as svg file and print your tiling in popup window.

You get good printing in LS format with portrait orientation.

Zoom et pan

  You can zoom in, zoom out, get original view and pan in four directions.
You can also move your tiling by click on drawing and moving pointer, left button pressed.

Fill and stroke

You choose dart or kite and  "Fill" or "Stroke"

You can choose color from palette, change palette, create colors

You can create radial or linear gradient

To apply color or gradient, click on square showing it.