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A Python package & command-line tool to gather text on the Web

In this geometry, distance is measured like a taxi driving along city blocks instead of a straight line. That means “circles” look like tilted squares.

Patterns that fill an infinite curved space where tiles shrink forever at the edges. Made famous by M.C. Escher’s Circle Limit.

A tiling discovered in the 1970s using just two shapes that never repeats, yet still looks symmetric and beautiful.