devkidd

You only need 15 tiles to paint any map shape The trick is a dual grid. The classic setup checks all 8 neighbors of a cell, and that takes 47 tiles > Paint your map as plain cells > Place the tiles on a second grid, shifted half a tile > Each tile reads the 4 cells under its corners > Turn those 4 yes/no answers into a number, 0 to 15 > Look up the tile for that number (0 = no land) If you didn't understand any of that, just ask your agent to implement it. Happy painting!