Aperiodic tilings with the de Bruijn method

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a somewhat earnest post warning about some of the difficulties you can encounter when using the dplyr::ntile() function to construct quantile-based groups in R. I was somewhat pressed for time, but still wanted to follow my usual practice of including “interstitial” graphics, which I usually do by repurposing my own hand-written generative art code to create nice looking horizontal separators. As I said, I was pressed for time, so rather than using my own code, I used an R translation of the samacqua/tilings Python/matplotlib repository, which applies the de Bruijn grid method for generating aperiodic rhombus tilings (…because the function is called n-tile, and we can make the images from n tiles, gosh I’m soooo clever aren’t I???????) The images you can create using this method are really quite lovely: I love these enough that I’d like to use them to make my own artwork. The rigid geometric style isn’t usually my preferred way to make generative art,…