pyqtworks / tiles

Magnetic geometric tiles

Magnetic Tiles

Play * Art * Math

Play with "magnetic" tiles like you would on your refrigerator! Tile corners automatically "snap" together for easy arrangement. Have fun! Make art! Mathematically edutaining!

Features

Comes with regular polygons, aperiodic polygons, tangrams, polyominoes and polyiamonds, and a variety of others.

Select, drag, rotate, scale, copy, paste, and delete tiles.

Right button drag to rotate. Hold CTRL to disable snapping, SHIFT for multiple selection. See help file for more details.

Loads and saves SVG files. Copies & pastes using SVG.

License

GNU GPL v3+

Requirements

• GNU/Linux, or OS/X, or Windows.
• Python 3
• PyQt 5

Installing

Terse installation instructions:

Install Python 3.4 or 3.5 Install corresponding version of PyQt 5.x Copy project to a local directory and execute tilemain.py

Needed

Packaging and installer for end users.

Better SVG interoperability.

Undo/redo.

More features.

If you want to help, or get help, contact me (github.com/benignvulcan).