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shape category:
coming soon—horizontal with dead ends!
Sébastien Truchet invented truchet tiles in 1704.
The 'loopy' shapes category was popularized by Cyril Smith in 1987 in his article 'The tiling patterns of Sebastian Truchet and the topology of structural hierarchy.'
Nick Montfort described the 'diagonal' pattern as a labyrinth in his book "
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
," first written in 2012. He called the simple line of code a 'found poem.' The 'horizontal' category is something from my childhood. Unlike the first two, which have only 2 tiles each, this category has 7 tiles, and 11 tiles if dead-ends are included.
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