Comment by zahlman

> <feTile> is a single element filter just like all the other ones. It just tiles the current image to the desired size. If the input is bigger than the output, it functions as a crop instead. So I use two of them to achieve a crop + tile.

Aha.

> I touched on it in this post: https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/

I coincidentally was given that link elsewhere since posting and have been reading it and clarified much of the rest as well. Amazing work on the blog overall.