Squame ornation
Now that we have generated the basic Squame modules, we want to modify the shapes to create some style.
The process it is easy:
1 - Choose your own design for one of the Squame's sides.
2 - Put it over the principal segments: the first created upper arc.
3 - Then by translation over the other edges.
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In this way you can give to the Squame a more interesting look.
You can even use more than a sigle kind of side. For exlample we can try with two different shapes a and b alternated over the edges of the Squame:
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The tiling properties still persist, but when you do the composition you discover that you need to specular reflect some of the modules. This is like using two different shapes.
You can see it more clearly in the following two examples:
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The modules of this Squame are two different, the peculiarity is that in the first case each module can tessellate linearly, but, in order to make curves, need to alternate with the other one.The second case it is the opposite situation: single modules can only curve, they need each other to go straight.