First presented at SIGGRAPH 99, Los Angeles, for the panel "Algorithmics and Patterns from Life" in the TechnOasis Gallery, this document describes the generative system used for my geometric tiling pattern compositions. It demonstrates how, by means of a topological transformation, the tiling patterns can be used for musical composition, and explains how they can be used as symbols to cue my performances as the dysfunctional fortuneteller Ignotus the Mage. It even explains how to eat your location in space. What more could you ask for?

Available as a PDF file or online, from the Table of Contents below.

1. Frontispiece
2. Construction of the Ignotiles
3. Basic Shapes
4. The Ignoquad or "12-point solution"
5. Permutations of the Ignoquad
6. The 32 Ignotiles
7. The Ignosquares
8. Merging Shapes in the Ignosquares
9. Classifying Merged Shapes
10. Large Compositions
11. Inflating Patterns
12. Back to Small Scale
13. The Ignogame
14. Telling the Present
15. Fortunetelling Framework
16. The Ignosigns, continued
17. A Sample Reading
18. Coloring the Ignotiles
19. Coloring the Ignosquares
20. Musical Parameters
21. Topological Transformation from Map to Graph
22. The Ignotones and Ignochords
23. Pond I, 1997
24. Why bother?
25. Didn't you Mention Food?
26. Hoping to See You Again