These guys are such squares... posted by Fizz at 6:54 AM on January 8
Pretty cool. I can cross my eyes to get most of the stereo images on the triply periodic minimal surfaces link to resolve into 3D. Unfortunately, in doing so I seem to have opened a slipstream gateway to a cyclopean dimension and am presently being bodily consumed by a host of unfathomable congeries.
I want actual tiles, or CAD files to get from some 3D printer in ceramic -- tiles I can actually use at home; got a hole where a hearth used to be that would fill nicely with those. Anyone? posted by hank at 10:17 AM on January 8
Yeah, I did need some quasiperiodic tilings, thanks.
Years ago, I wrote a Ruby program that used Ammann-bar forcing rules to generate PostScript tilings. I wish I had time to work on it.
I sank a lot of money into Zometool too, building Danzer tiles.
I also dream of actual ceramic tiles. It's just a kite and a dart... posted by Rat Spatula at 10:20 AM on January 8
I want actual tiles, or CAD files to get from some 3D printer in ceramic -- tiles I can actually use at home; got a hole where a hearth used to be that would fill nicely with those. Anyone?
It's been done before, so I don't see why not. You shouldn't need 3d printing or anything - just someone who will spend all day cutting rhombusses for you. posted by Popular Ethics at 10:37 AM on January 8 [1 favorite]
> just someone who will spend all day cutting rhombusses
I'm not rich enough for that method, so I'm hoping for a technofix.
(Just printing out the outlines of the shapes would work, in a 3D printer using one of the ceramic or metal materials; lay that down, then fill the holes with colored concrete, cloisonne-like. posted by hank at 11:34 AM on January 8
(but, yes, there's a good example here using fairly large tiles in two colors: -- and that took 40 hours with a tile saw, they say). Thanks for the pointer, I hadn't seen that one with the actual time info. posted by hank at 11:37 AM on January 8
posted by Fizz at 6:54 AM on January 8