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- Truchet is a program which draws a map of Truchet tiles on a Workbench
- window.
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- To use Truchet, just type truchet from cli. Enter a number between 1 and
- 1000. The map will then generate. Click on the close box to quit.
-
- Truchet was inspired by the Computer Recreations column of the July, 1989
- issue of Scientific American.
-
- There are two types of Truchet tiles. One type has a quarter-circle in
- both the upper left and lower right corners of the tile, the other type has
- them in the upper right and lower left corners.
-
- Truchet tiling could be used to determine the degree of randomness in a set
- of data. To test a set of data, tiles are laid down according to the
- binary representation of the numbers. If the resulting map appears to have
- no detectable patterns, the data is random. If patterns appear, the data
- is not random. This idea is put forth by Clifford A. Pickover of IBM's
- Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
-
- Read the SA article for a better explanation of this and other curiosities.
-
- Truchet was written using Lattice C 5.0 and compiles with the command:
-
- lc -Lm truchet.c
-
- Happy Tiling!
-
-
- Chris MacDonald
- cmacdonald
- 6/21/89
-