Tor has updated the tile game that accompanies the ongoing serial of my forthcoming novel Makers, which comes out at the end of the month (and boy am I excited! Publishers Weekly called it "Brilliant" and a "Tour de force" and Library Journal called it "Enthusiastically recommended").
Each installment in the serial has been accompanied by a CC-licensed image from Idiots' Books, and the images tile, lining up with one another on all four sides. Tor is tossing these images into a Flash-toy that allows you to arrange and rotate these to your heart's content.
The serial is up to 44 parts now, and the first 36 illos have been combined into a new, expanded, 6X6 version of the tile game (we'll do the 7x7 soon, then the 8x8 and finish up with a 9x9 incorporating all 81!).
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A form of Truchet tiling?
http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2009/05/make_a_maze_in.html
Maybe not, because Truchet tiles are all identical.
More about Truchet tiling:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TruchetTiling.html
Just noticed the above is your site, I made a laser cut array of random Pickover type tiling for the window of an art show a while back, which involved me spending the best part of a week writing a script for Illustrator.
Your method is much much cleverer and simpler. Congratulations!
Have you ever tried flood filling areas of random noise?
I would love to order a couple prints of a few of the tiles, is that going to be an option?
That's some nice Flash coding. But the wording should be "Show fewer tiles" not *"... less tiles".