DMS 2026 hackathon
Industrial materials are calibrated to demand. Reused ones are not. Reuse starts from a limited stock of tiles with rough dimensions, rough properties and only a rough idea of how many of each kind there will be.
So instead of one fixed solution, the designer describes an intention, a vibe: a pattern, a texture, a material quality, a cultural reference. The tools here explore how to describe that vibe while keeping control over both design and construction.
The main app, plus two example projects that grew out of the same hackathon.
Design families for reused tile stock
Describe a tiling intention as a design family, sample an uncertain reused stock, solve layouts inside real boundaries, and review the result in 2D and 3D. Optional LLM assist drafts design families for you.
Open the app
by Harrison Hildebrandt
Count a reused tile stock from a photo. A Python and OpenCV script clusters colours, splits tiles on the grout lines and writes one CSV row per tile.
Open project
by Moritz Funck
A pattern generator that fills an area with two or three tile formats by area share, with mirroring and module offset. Interface in German.
Open projectSix steps, each one a page in the app. Jump straight into any of them.