Patterns by Rule

None of the art pages in this run contains a picture. Each one grows a repeat from a seed and paints it the way a material would, so the same page can be a wall of Talavera cobalt, a Nasrid dado, a Barcelona hallway floor or a Roman pavement depending on which rule and which material you hand it. The posts here explain the rules, the brushwork and the engine they share, azulejeria, which the pages import from a Hugo mount of the package source.

The pieces, in the order they were made:

• Çini, Islamic star patterns by Hankin’s polygons-in-contact method. The geometry everything cut later borrows from.
• Azulejería, a tin-glazed tile wall grown from one diagonal-symmetric square and a drifting brush.
• Jerez, the same wall sent south: vines, horses, sherry glasses and the wines as palettes.
• Alicatado, Çini’s regions cut from glazed tile with a hammer and bedded in lime.
• Hidráulico, the Azulejería engine with the glaze swapped for pigmented cement.
• Hispania, a villa of Roman pavements where the tessera is the brush.
• Leonor, heraldry by rule: a blazon parser that paints shields in enamel and gilt.

Hispania has no post yet. The plan for what comes next has trencadís, Delft and Sutton Hoo in the queue, and every two or three pieces get a post here.