Wang automata are devices for picture language
recognition recently introduced by us, which characterize the class
REC of recognizable picture languages. Thus, Wang automata are
equivalent to tiling systems or online tessellation acceptors, and
are based like Wang systems on labeled Wang tiles. The present work
focus on scanning strategies, to prove that the ones Wang automata
are based on are those following four kinds of movements:
boustrophedonic, “L-like”, “U-like”, and spirals.