Square Truchet Tiles

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Simple tile

We start, as always, with the simple Cartesian grid, and the simplest set of two Truchet tiles.

Simplest two Truchet tiles with quarter-circle sections

For the grid, we randomly choose from either of the two tiles. Lovely, isn't it?

More complex tiles

We of course are not limited to these two tiles. In fact, we can come up with as many tiles as we like, as long as they contain strokes that "exit" the tile at the four cardinal directions.

Some other tiles added for fun

Two-notch tiles

We can extend this to have two notches on each side of the square, parameterizing its position from the midpoint of the square edge. Since I think that non-crossing tilings look much better, and we have 4 pairs to connect, this results in the Catalan number C 4 = 14 tiles to consider.

Notch:

Three-notch tiles

Since a square has an even number of sides, we can put three notches on each side, resulting in 6 pairs of notches to connect. We have C 6 = 132 tiles to consider.

A sampling of the 132 Catalan tiles with 3 notches per side
Notch: