Well, whoever he is, no matter, because the "fractal" of this particular
type thing is pretty darned interesting. You can see singular torii and
continuous curves stretching a great distance in eventual loops. And the
double lobed, triple lobed and all the rest. Very nice indeed.


Ph Gibone wrote:
> 
> I've seen these curves (they are very good to animate (change randomly the
> orientation of each 1/4 tori), I made a 2D program to do that years ago)
> under the name of "Truchet's Curves" from the name of Mr Truchet (don't ask
> me who he is)
> 
> Philippe

> >I've always referred to this type of space-filling curve as a Dragon Curve.
> >I'm not sure if that's its true mathematical name or not. Can anyone out
> >there identify this class of curves?
> >
> >
> >
> >

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