microtherion / floret-tiling

SCAD library to generate floret pentagonal (6-fold pentille) tiling, either as a pure frame pattern, or as a partially filled pattern

floret-tiling

Implement floret pentagonal (6-fold pentille) tiling, either as a pure frame pattern, or as a partially filled pattern.

API

• floret_tile_frame(side=10, thickness=thickness, angle_off=0, width=200, height=200)
  Generate a wireframe pattern.

• side: Length of short side of pentagons.

• thickness: Thickness and width of wires.

• angle_off: Additional rotation to apply to pentiles. Leaving this at 0 or omitting is likely to give best results when printing in a vertical orientation.

• width, height: Dimensions of pattern in the XY plane. The lower left corner is always at (0, 0, 0).

• floret_tile_solid(side=10, thickness=thickness, angle_off=0, width=200, height=200)
  Generate a partially filled pattern. Parameters are identical to floret_tile_frame. angle_off=60 will give a different fill pattern with pentiles in same orientation.

See the demo project at the end of the library for some example patterns.

Notes

Initial CGAL rendering of large patterns can take several minutes, but it will eventually terminate, and subsequent re-renderings are often much quicker.