Each drifting seed claims the ground closest to it, so the cell walls slide and stretch as the points move past one another.
Tessellation Backgrounds
Escher Morph Tiles
A plain checkerboard grows bulges on every edge and swallows the matching notch of its neighbour, so the squares become interlocking figures and flatten back.
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About Escher Morph Tiles
A plain checkerboard grows bulges on every edge and swallows the matching notch of its neighbour, so the squares become interlocking figures and flatten back.
Part of Tessellation Backgrounds. Runs 12 seconds by default, exports in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, as MP4 or transparent WebM up to 8K.
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