Four line grids at even angles are cut into squares and thin rhombs, giving an eight-fold tiling that never repeats however far it runs.
Tessellation Backgrounds
Pinwheel Tiling
Conway's right triangle splits into five smaller copies over and over, and because each turn is an irrational angle no two levels ever line up again.
- pinwheel
- conway
- aperiodic
About Pinwheel Tiling
Conway's right triangle splits into five smaller copies over and over, and because each turn is an irrational angle no two levels ever line up again.
Part of Tessellation Backgrounds. Runs 15 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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