\documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{luamplib} \begin{document} \mplibtextextlabel{enable} \begin{mplibcode} input colorbrewer-cmyk % a polygon of n sides on a given path vardef poly expr n of p = save x, y; z0 = point 0 of p; z1 = point 1 of p; for i=2 upto n-1: z[i] = z[i-2] rotatedabout(z[i-1], 180(2/n-1)); endfor for i=0 upto n-1: z[i] -- endfor cycle enddef; vardef centroid(expr P) = (origin for i=1 upto length P: + point i of P endfor) / length P enddef; beginfig(1); path t[], s[]; s1 = poly 4 of (origin -- 42 dir 15); t1 = poly 3 of subpath (2, 1) of s1; t2 = poly 3 of subpath (3, 2) of s1; t3 = poly 3 of subpath (2, 1) of t1; t4 = poly 3 of subpath (2, 1) of t2; s2 = poly 4 of subpath (2, 1) of t4; picture unit; unit = image( fill s1 withcolor Oranges 8 5; fill t1 withcolor Blues 8 4; fill t4 withcolor Blues 8 3; fill t3 withcolor Greens 8 4; fill t2 withcolor Greens 8 3; fill s2 withcolor Reds 8 5; forsuffixes $=s1, t1, s2, t2, t3, t4: pair m; m = centroid($); for i=1 upto length $: draw point i - 1/2 of $ -- m withpen pencircle scaled 3/2 withcolor Spectral 3 2; endfor endfor ); pair u, v; u = point 2 of t2 - point 0 of s1; v = point 2 of t3 - point 0 of s1; for i=0 upto 6: for j=0 upto 9: draw unit shifted (i*u + j*v); endfor endfor endfig; \end{mplibcode} \end{document}