TILEPATTERN

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Create random tile patterns.

Select an array of blocks, randomly rotate & mirror every block, or replace them with selected replacement blocks using one of the following patterns: Even, Accelerate, Gradient, Sine, Decelerate

INTRODUCTION

Command: TILEPATTERN

Select an array of blocks:

Valid selection is BLOCK, not ARRAY. You need explode the array object if you created an array with a block. We call they "original blocks" or "tiles" in this introduction.

Select replacement blocks:

Depends on how many different types of replacement blocks selected, TILEPATTERN provides 4 options.

If you selected more than one blocks with the same name, they are considered as 1 block type. We call they "replacement blocks" in this introduction.

0 replacement block type:
It doesn't replace the original blocks, but can randomly rotate and mirror them. Refer to Example 3 below.

Rotate tiles? No/<Yes>:
If you select Yes, it will ask the shape of the tile.

Tile shape? Hexagon/<Square>:
It rotates square-shaped tiles randomly by 90 degrees while rotates hexagon-shaped tiles randomly by 60 degrees.

Mirror tiles? No/<Yes>:
Select Yes to mirror the original blocks randomly.

1 replacement block type:
It simply replaces the original blocks with the reference blocks and keeps individual original blocks' properties such as layer, color, scale etc.

2 replacement block types:
If you selected 2 replacement block types, TILEPATTERN will provide 5 different mix patterns. Refer to Example 1 below.

Select pattern type [Even/Accelerate/Gradient/Sine/Decelerate] <E>:

- Even
  This is the default option. Even means spreading out 2 reference block types randomly and evenly.
  - Percentage of the second tile (1-100%) <50>:
    You can choose any number between 0% and 100%, it can be a decimal number such as 33.3.
    Second tile refers to the second replacement block type in your selection order.
    The rest of original blocks will be replaced with the first replacement block type.
    Refer to Example 2 below.

- Accelerate
  It mixes the second type into the first type from top to bottom in an accelerated way.
- Gradient
  It evenly increase the percentage of second type from top to bottom.
- Sine
  The increase rate of the second type similar as a sine curve.
- Decelerate
  It quickly mixes large number of the second type from top and generally slow down.

Basically Accelerate has the least second type, while Decelerate has the most. The number of second type increase in the order of Accelerate → Gradient → Sine → Decelerate.

More than 2 replacement block types:
If you selected more than 2 replacement block types, TILEPATTERN doesn't provide any option.
It will equally and randomly spread out all different replacement block types. For example, in an 81 block array, if you selected 3 replacement block types, TILEPATTERN will insert 27 replacement of every type.

NOTES

You can use TILEPATTERN multiple times with different options to get special result.
The tile can be any shape, square, hexagon, diamond, triangle, circle, etc.
New blocks match the properties of original block, such as layer, color, scale, etc.
You can make a few basic mosaic patterns, then apply random rotation to a block array, and then replace the block array with these mosaic patterns randomly to get a relative random but easy to produce result.

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