Art from code VI: Tiles and tessellations

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A couple of years ago I gave an invited workshop called art from code at the 2022 rstudio::conf (now posit::conf) conference. As part of the workshop I wrote a lengthy series of notes on how to make generative art using R, all of which were released under a CC-BY licence. For a while now I’d been thinking I should do something with these notes. I considered writing a book, but in all honesty I don’t have the spare capacity for a side-project of that scale these days. I can barely keep up with the workload at my day job as it is. So instead, I’ve decided that I’d port them over to this site as a series of blog posts. In doing so I’ve made a deliberate decision not to modify the original content t…