Swirl

The negative space makes the swirls. The main pattern is a grid of triangles with pentagons and squares that separate the triangles. The green triangles are surrounded by triangles and the orange ones are surrounded by three pentagons. The extra triangles and squares make the swirl pattern of the holes in the middle.

Almost

This pattern almost works. It looks like it fits together perfectly but alas the gray hexagons loosely fit. Each hexagon is connected to only one orange triangle and not touching the two. But because of the closeness it's hard to see. The way the pattern was designed from a triangular grid that had a double zig-zag of triangles and pentagons inserted between the grid triangles (red and green). Maybe it's best just to omit the misleading hexagons....

Candies

Somehow, this pattern reminds me of candies twisted in colourful wrappers. I know that I could have coloured this one better but....I was more interested in the pattern. The loops, here, have a double zig-zag pattern. The octagons are separated by pentagons and triangles in a couple of ways: pentagon with a triangle to the left (pink and red) or a pentagon with a triangle to the right (orange and purple).
As well, each octagon has two pentagons and two triangles that connect to it. I will experiment some more with this double zig-zag idea.

no gaps

This pattern has no gaps--most of the patterns that I have been looking at have gaps between the regular polygons. There are a number of different types of vertices in this pattern. Can you classify all the types of vertex meetings?

Cut and Paste

This is a TileLand design that has ten copies of a path. The path goes from one red square to the next which is a big arc. The arc has one missing pentagon between the purple square and the pink pentagon which allows for the arcs to not overlap. Below, I highlighted one of the ten arcs to make it easy to see. I probably could have coloured this one a bit better....

Sun Spot

Just for a change up, I'm back to TileLand. This pattern came about by trying to fill in the middle of the loop made by the octagons and triangles. Normally, I prefer to have only edge connected polygons but to fill in the middle required a some fiddling. If eight more octagons fit on the inside, I would have liked it more. But I settled for the hexagons--I was a bit surprised they fit so nicely.

Compass Roses

Well, I guess that this is not really compass roses since I would need eight points rather than these that only have four. Compasses was the first thing that came to mind. As with most patterns I make, the original program is not as efficient as the one I create after giving it a bit of time. Here is the program that I came up with after a bit of thought.

rose {
  sides 4
  right
  sides 6
  2 right
  3 sides 3
  sides 3
  ifon none {
      paint red
      create rose
      left
      sides 3
      paint purple
      left
      create rose
   } {
   }
}