Squiggle Orbs: Segmented-Torus Truchet Tilings of the Sphere
Proceedings of Bridges 2025: Mathematics and the Arts
Pages 531–534
Short Papers
Abstract
Truchet tiles produce complex and visually appealing patterns, and have been extended to an ever-growing variety of lattices. In this work, I present a generalization of Truchet tiles to the uniform spherical polyhedra that uses segments of tori to decorate tiles. I also describe the computational design and fabrication of modular, 3D printed spherical Truchet tiles which can be freely repositioned on an underlying spherical lattice.