Sébastien Truchet was an eclectic Dominican Father born in Lyon and lived in Louis XIV times. He is known for being active in areas such as mathematics, hydraulics, graphics, typography, and for many inventions. As typographer he studied for the Description des Métiers the proportions of typefaces of "Roman Du Roi" character (also known as Grandjean character), from which descends directly the "Times New Roman" and which inspired Pierre Simon Fournier, the Didot and Giovanni Battista Bodoni.
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- Sébastien Truchet was an eclectic Dominican Father born in Lyon and lived in Louis XIV times. He is known for being active in areas such as mathematics, hydraulics, graphics, typography, and for many inventions. As typographer he studied for the Description des Métiers the proportions of typefaces of "Roman Du Roi" character (also known as Grandjean character), from which descends directly the "Times New Roman" and which inspired Pierre Simon Fournier, the Didot and Giovanni Battista Bodoni. It was the first scientific work on typefaces, and on this work is based the concept of typographic point (whose first definition is due to French typographer Pierre Simon Fournier in year 1737). As hydraulics expert he designed most of French channels. As inventor he is known for sundials, weapons and tools for transplanting large trees within the Versailles gardens. As mathematician and designer he worked on plane coverage using a single tileable element and rotating it in the four main directions, for example: Some examples of surface filling made tiling such a pattern. With a scheme: With a random placement: From a mathematical point of view this is the central theme. From an artistic point of view if we change the basic shape with a more complex one, we can get very nice combinations. For example, using the following pattern: We have such a tiling: Fournier resumed Truchet work and proposed alternative patterns: With Fournier pattern we obtain: As a curiosity we remember that a simple maze could be generated tiling a white square with a black diagonal: Truchet tiling are used for walls, floors, marquetry, rear of Tarotées, wallpapers and other contexts. Many software generates random plane coverage with such a tiling, and some board games are based on this fascinating part of Truchet work. Sébastien Truchet biography: http://jacques-andre. fr/faqtypo/truchet/index. html Mathworld reference: http://mathworld. wolfram. com/TruchetTiling. html Truchet in 2D and 3D: http://local. wasp. uwa. edu. au/~pbourke/texture_colour/periodic/ More informations on Sébastien Truchet: http://www. tug. org/TUGboat/Articles/tb20-1/tb62andr. pdf Deepening on "Roman Du Roi" font: http://ilovetypography. com/2008/01/17/type-terms-transitional-type/ Javascript animation: http://perso. orange. fr/jean-paul. davalan/divers/truchet/truc. html
- Truchet visse ai tempi di Luigi XIV. . Come tipografo curò nella Description des Métiers la proporzione delle lettere del carattere "Roman Du Roi" (noto anche come carattere di Grandjean), da cui discende direttamente il "Times New Roman" ed al quale s'ispirarono Pierre Simon Fournier, i Didot e Giovanni Battista Bodoni. Si tratta del primo studio scientifico di una certa portata sui caratteri tipografici, ed è anche alla base del concetto di punto tipografico (la cui prima definizione si deve al tipografo francese Pierre Simon Fournier nel 1737). Come esperto di idraulica ha progettato gran parte dei canali francesi. Della sua attività di inventore ricordiamo meridiane, armi e strumenti per trapiantare alberi di una certa dimensione, utilizzati nel parco di Versailles. Come matematico e designer ha studiato il riempimento di aree con un singolo elemento che possa essere affiancabile ruotandolo nelle quattro direzioni principali, ad esempio: Coperture del piano effettuate con un pattern del genere sono simili alle seguenti. Secondo uno schema: Con una disposizione casuale: Dal punto di vista matematico questo è il tema centrale. Da un punto di vista artistico se cambiamo la prima forma elementare con una più complessa, possiamo ottenere delle combinazioni molto piacevoli. Ad esempio utilizzando il seguente pattern: Otteniamo una copertura del piano di questo tipo: Fournier nel riprendere il lavoro di Truchet ha proposto una serie di pattern alternativi: Con cui otteniamo: A titolo di curiosità ricordiamo che un il più semplice dei labirinti può essere ottenuto usando come pattern un quadrato bianco con la diagonale nera: Riempimenti di Truchet sono stati utilizzati per piastrelle, pavimentazioni, tarsie, retro di tarocchi, carte da parati ed in altri contesti. Sono moltissimi i software per generare coperture con una disposizione casuale e ci sono anche dei giochi da tavolo basati su questa affascinante parte del lavoro di Truchet.
- Sébastien Truchet was een ontwerper, typograaf en voorloper in de wiskunde van vlakvullingen en patronen. Als typograaf ontwierp hij het lettertype "Roman Du Roi", dat een directe voorloper van de welbekende "Times New Roman" was en daarnaast stond hij aan de basis van de (typografische) punt. Als ontwerper onderzocht hij onder meer vlakvullingen die eigenlijk slechts uit een enkel element zijn opgebouwd dat door kanteling vier basisvormen oplevert, bijvoorbeeld: Vlakvullingen op grond van dit thema zien er dan bijvoorbeeld als volgt uit: Dit is (wiskundig gezien) het centrale thema. Door de eerste elementaire vorm te veranderen kunnen er artistiek gezien (ipv wiskundig abstract gezien) veel mooiere combinaties gemaakt worden. Als men namelijk het volgende als uitgangspunt neemt: Dan volgen vlakvullingen als deze:
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- Truchet visse ai tempi di Luigi XIV. . Come tipografo curò nella Description des Métiers la proporzione delle lettere del carattere "Roman Du Roi" (noto anche come carattere di Grandjean), da cui discende direttamente il "Times New Roman" ed al quale s'ispirarono Pierre Simon Fournier, i Didot e Giovanni Battista Bodoni.
- Sébastien Truchet was een ontwerper, typograaf en voorloper in de wiskunde van vlakvullingen en patronen. Als typograaf ontwierp hij het lettertype "Roman Du Roi", dat een directe voorloper van de welbekende "Times New Roman" was en daarnaast stond hij aan de basis van de (typografische) punt.
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