{"id":3224,"date":"2015-04-20T01:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/en\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:23:20","slug":"girih-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/en\/2015\/art\/girih-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Girih App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To create even easier ornaments, than with the laser cutted Girih tiles, I decided to write a specialized App for it.<\/p>\n<p>An App has some advantages to the physical tiles:<\/p>\n<p>Physical tiles tend to move around a bit, when you release your fingers or add another piece.<\/p>\n<p>Loose tiles can not be durable stored as ornament.<\/p>\n<p>The number of physical tiles is limited.<\/p>\n<p>The look and size of\u00a0physical tiles is fixed.<\/p>\n<p>You can not seamless join\u00a0physical tiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Girih App for Mac OS X\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/girih\/id1400485589\"><strong>Download the Girih App<br \/>\n<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/girih\/MacAppStore.svg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Version 3.3 from July 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3231\" src=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-04-20-um-01.45.52-620x604.png\" alt=\"Girih App by Stefan Hintz\" width=\"620\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-04-20-um-01.45.52-620x604.png 620w, https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-04-20-um-01.45.52-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-04-20-um-01.45.52.png 1992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This App is completely written in Swift.<\/p>\n<p>As an addition to the standard Girih shapes: Decagon, Pentagon, Hexagon, Bow Tie and Rhombus at added some more shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Not all of the shapes\u00a0can be combined together without gaps.<\/p>\n<p>So this App is also useful for creating Penrose Patterns or Ornaments from regular Polygons.<\/p>\n<p>I am curious to see, what you create with it. If you tweet about it, tag it with: <a title=\"Twitter Search for #Girih\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Girih\">#Girih<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please let me know what you like about my Girih App and what not.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align none size-large wp-image-3240\" src=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Palace-620x383.png\" alt=\"Palace\" width=\"620\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Palace-620x383.png 620w, https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Palace-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Palace.png 1792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3234\" src=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-04-19-um-16.59.37-620x402.jpg\" alt=\"Pattern created with the Girih App\" width=\"620\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-04-19-um-16.59.37-620x402.jpg 620w, https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/2015\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-04-19-um-16.59.37-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video\" style=\"width:620px;aspect-ratio:620\/348;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0l-JaRll70s?autoplay=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/yt\/0l-JaRll70s-640.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/yt\/0l-JaRll70s-640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/yt\/0l-JaRll70s-1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/><button type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><span>Loads the video from YouTube<\/span><\/button><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video\" style=\"width:620px;aspect-ratio:620\/348;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gGSfFvR_UCk?autoplay=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/yt\/gGSfFvR_UCk-640.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/yt\/gGSfFvR_UCk-640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hintz.de.cool\/images\/yt\/gGSfFvR_UCk-1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/><button type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><span>Loads the video from YouTube<\/span><\/button><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To create even easier ornaments, than with the laser cutted Girih tiles, I decided to write a specialized App for it. An App has some advantages to the physical tiles: Physical tiles tend to move around a bit, when you release your fingers or add another piece. 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