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Shining

Al Sweigart, 2024. The hexagon pattern of the carpet in the Overlook Hotel in the 1980 movie, The Shining.

This piece is based on Project 35 - Hex Grid and Project 65 - Shining Carpet from Sweigart's The Big Book of Small Python Projects. The "wallpaper" style of scroll art displays a static, forever-repeating pattern. While the simplicity makes it less exciting than other forms of scroll art, it is approachable and forces creativity in design. The same short program can display any wallpaper pattern; only the wallpaper data needs to change:

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