Pattern study / 003
Your pattern. Your coaster.
Eleven repeating patterns, one coaster. Choose a layout, find your spacing, and make the colours yours.
Drag to turn and tilt · Arrow keys also work
88 mm pattern area · 6 mm border · Flush inlays
Visual design demo · No orders or printer connection
About the source design & this demo
Based on LLM/Coasters/coaster_hex_tiling_pad_material_test_set, version 3, inspected in Autodesk Fusion. The saved cork-pad component has 61 flush yellow inlay bodies and a dark base. Default dimensions and RGB colours reproduce that top pattern; partial hexagons are clipped by its circular boundary.
The original uses a 7 mm tiling-cell radius and a 6.35 mm tile radius, giving a 12.7 mm tile width and an approximately 1.126 mm line. This demo keeps the overall diameter, border and thickness fixed. The hexagon option retains the Fusion reference; the other ten layouts are generated for this browser demo. Size is measured on the finished inlay as described under each control. Shared tile edges are inset equally to form the selected gap. All patterns are cropped to the same circular area, so small edge fragments may occur.
The preview shows the top design and an illustrative coaster edge. The underside pad pocket and exact 1 mm lower-edge fillet are not modelled here. SVG and JSON exports are design references, not validated print files. Colours on screen are approximate filament colours.
Auto-colouring uses a palette of up to four colours and assigns different colours to tiles sharing an edge before the gaps are added. Corner-only contact does not count. For circle layouts, nearest neighbours across the selected gap count instead. The border has its own colour; four tile colours plus a different base can therefore represent five filament colours. The algorithm seeks a valid colouring, not the smallest possible number of colours.
Local and offline · No network dependencies · Fusion source inspected 7 September 2026