The App Girih
This isn’t the feature I’d planned but I have yet again (again again again…) had my Apple password go incognito. Twenty-some years and they still shed me like water off an oilskin.
ROAR!!
Today does feature the Stefan Hintz app Girih. It lets you experiment with Islamic tilings and tilings more fanciful. A full-featured app, complemented by Hintz’s companion app Zellige. I enjoy playing in this sandbox.
Note the akimbo pattern of almost-squares. These slightly skewed variations would allow a careful person to construct some wild sci-fi spaces.
I’m more interested in going at it it freeform rather than learning rules for applying it. So here is another example of why (if you’re on the Mac) you may want to check it out.
Inward with the Droste Spiral
Playground Layered Shapes
Using Photoshop Paintbucket Tool and Patterns
to Make Abstractions from Photos
LuxDraw by Norbyte
Including a Motif
Blue Light
The App Girih
Tile Photos FX, puzzle-cut mode
The App Scale: Beautiful Fractals
Torso Incognito
3-D Materials
Photoshop Grids
Cutting Up Art with the App Tiles FX
Motion 03: More Complex
Motion 02: Stacked Math Movies
Motion 01: Visual Math and Video Dance
Interference Effects
Years of Tries at 3D Effects
Squiggles with Patterns
3d Models as Paint Brushes, Plus Glazes
3 Images from 1 Source
Compound Eye from ImageTricks
Silhouettes
AutoType Writing