Make a tessellation in any of the 17 wallpaper groups

The tessellation maker is a new tool from the pattern library. Pick a motif, choose one of the 17 wallpaper groups, and set three colors.

Samples to start from

• Generating…Sailboats in p4gOpen with these settings
• Generating…Flags in p6mOpen with these settings
• Generating…Fish in pggOpen with these settings

What you get

• A seamless repeat, as SVG or PNG
• A tile layout, as SVG or PNG, that marks each repeat and one tile
• A printable PDF with the layout, the group's symmetry and one repeat

Hexagonal groups repeat as rectangles

The five hexagonal groups have no square repeat. Their smallest upright rectangle is about 1.73 times as tall as it is wide, so that's the shape of the file you download. Tests check each group's rotations, mirrors and glides, and that every repeat meets itself at its edges.