Truchet Tides

Quarter-circle tiles flipping over in waves, rerouting endless paths.

Move to flip tiles, click to send a wave

The prompt

“An animated Truchet tile pattern of quarter-circle arcs forming endless ribbons, with waves that flip the tiles over like cards”

Ask Perlin, the VYBE.ART creative agent, for something like this and it builds a piece like it. Start from this prompt and change any part of it: the look, the mood, the rules, the sound.

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How it’s made

Truchet Tides is a p5.js sketch. It is a p5.js sketch, JavaScript drawing on a canvas frame by frame, live in your browser.

Make it yours

  1. Open it in the studio, where it plays with its controls, and its code is a click away.
  2. Tell Perlin what to change in a sentence: a colour, a mood, a new rule, a sound.
  3. Bend it with its sliders, or put it on a timeline and render it to video.
  4. Publish it to the community, share its link or embed it on your site.

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Describe it. Perlin builds it.

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