Friday, April 10, 2020

Truechet Tiles


While you may have observed there were a few posts on Kaleidoscope and patterns in my blog and I have promised on several occasions to create such patterns but I never delivered on my promise.

I feel the time has come to make good some of the promises and I want to now make some tiling code that repeats certain patterns on the screen.

Here is a pattern of truchet tiles:


Here is how its created:

Vertex Shader code:

        void main() {
            gl_Position = vec4( position, 1.0 );
        }
    
Fragment Shader Code:

// Author @patriciogv ( patriciogonzalezvivo.com ) - 2015
#ifdef GL_ES
precision mediump float;
#endif

uniform vec2 u_resolution;
uniform float u_time;

vec2 brickTile(vec2 _st, float _zoom){
    _st *= _zoom;

    // Here is where the offset is happening
    _st.x += step(1., mod(_st.y,2.0)) * 0.5;

    return fract(_st);
}

float box(vec2 _st, vec2 _size){
    _size = vec2(0.5)-_size*0.5;
    vec2 uv = smoothstep(_size,_size+vec2(1e-4),_st);
    uv *= smoothstep(_size,_size+vec2(1e-4),vec2(1.0)-_st);
    return uv.x*uv.y;
}

void main(void){
    vec2 st = gl_FragCoord.xy/u_resolution.xy;
    vec3 color = vec3(0.0);

    // Modern metric brick of 215mm x 102.5mm x 65mm
    // http://www.jaharrison.me.uk/Brickwork/Sizes.html
    // st /= vec2(2.15,0.65)/1.5;

    // Apply the brick tiling
    st = brickTile(st,5.0);

    color = vec3(box(st,vec2(0.9)));

    // Uncomment to see the space coordinates
    // color = vec3(st,0.0);

    gl_FragColor = vec4(color,1.0);
}

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