Theater is everything. Even in "science".

Check out the defender of the hive here.

My point is, when we study our preference for right angles, what we're studying is the interpreter. It has quirks.

We have an interpreter in our head. It maps and makes sense of the mysterious whatever. Some of it cultural, some biological. It is vast. There might not even be things and space.

For A problem like this. If I was going to do it with an algorithm I would just place shapes at random locations and orientations a trillion times.

It would be much easier with a discreet tile type system of course

Still does.