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1-side Corner Tiles

1-side corner tiles are derived from Wang corner tilesets, by reducing the number of different corners to one. In a corner tileset, a corner path affects three adjacent tiles. They are similar to Block tiles, but have a design of maze paths. Like Block tiles, they always match adjacent tiles, without the need for Wang tile calculations.

Here is a complete 2-corner Wang tileset.

Complete 2-corner tileset
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

By adding unconnected dead-end paths to all empty corners with no path, we create a set of 1-side tiles where all sides are the same.

1-side corner tileset
tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile tile
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Tile-15 Variations

And here are a few tile-15 variations, which are always single sided.

Tile-15 corner variations
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Stage Array

We can place random tiles in an 18 x 12 array. There is no need to calculate tile index values as all tiles have the same side, and will therefore match automatically.

Stage: 1-side Corner Tiles

1-side Corner Tiles

Reduced Tilesets

It is interesting to see the effect of using a small number of 1-side tiles.
Note that paths on corner tiles can either join or cross-over at tile corners. The two types of tile design lead to different tilesets to create a balanced maze.

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Iif we use a similar tileset to the above but swop edge for corner tiles, a weaving corner maze can be made. See Wang 2-corner tiles.
Random tiling of 4 tiles
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See Stage for more random Block tile arrays of 2 and 4 tilesets.

Stage: Random 1-side Braid Tiles

Braid Tiles

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