Arranging marble looking porcelain tiles with some pattern matching.
Mark Rollins
18 days ago
last modified: 18 days ago
After sorting my tiles, I found that out of 62 tiles, there were several that could be matched together with minimal or no discontinuity at the edge to form a seamless pair of tiles. Here is a photo of all my tiles with the bottom 2 rows showing matching pairs I discovered. Would it ever make design sense to incorporated these matching pairs into the final wall layout ?
Here's a close up of a couple:
And here is an example of how I could 'randomly' arrange them on a wall portion:
Does this make any design sense or should I go completely random ?
Secondary question. Does it make sense to arrange random tiles such that, like finding animals shapes in the clouds, shapes could appear in the tile veins ? Here's an example, and although random it kind of looks like a humanoid shooting a laser from its hand:
While laying out these tiles in my computer program, my OCD has seriously kicked in, so I need some help :). Thanks all.
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millworkman
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