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M.C. Escher Foundation video The M.C. Escher Foundation created a video to explain the technical side of the seventeen symmetry groups.
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M.C. Escher Foundation video The M.C. Escher Foundation created a video to explain the technical side of the seventeen symmetry groups.
Create a Nested Shape #Tessellation in any Symmetry Group
Create a Nested Shape #Tessellation in any Symmetry Group
Create your own tessellation
This list is to help you get started in creating your own nested shape tessellations. I’m not showing you how to create wallpaper patterns with lots of free space in between, but the true, à la M.C. Escher designs. A tessellation of a flat surface is the tiling of a plane using one or more fluid shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. All of these rules I…
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My original Mountain Biker #Tessellation from 1997
This Mountain Biker #tessellation drawing was done before Windows 3.1, before the Mac, before iPads! But after the dinosaurs. 1997. It was the inspiration to do a complete periodic drawing covering the plane, rather than a line group as shown below. Sometimes these drawings take time. Tessellation ideas are a dime a dozen — completed artwork is more rare. (more…)
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Cellphone Zombie Tessellation #5 – Prior to Impact
Cellphone Zombie Tessellation #5 – Prior to Impact
This will be my last#cellphonezombie tessellation, I hope. Getting it out of my system. This tessellation is done using the P4g symmetry group – a four point rotation within a mirrored box. Don’t like mirrors in symmetry, it creates a very rigid personage. But in this case, it might suit the occasion, the last fraction of a second, before impact, as the cellphone user realizes that there is…
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Cellphone Zombie Tessellation #4
Cellphone Zombie Tessellation #4
Yet another tessellation about #cellphonezombies! Contemporary topic. This tessellation seen from a low wide-angle view, we can see a truck’s tire coming from behind our character, and above the roadway disappearing far behind him. Yes, busy, mesmerized by his cellphone, oblivious. What a weird word. Oublie-vie-ah. Forget-your-life. (more…)
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Cellphone Zombie Tessellation #3
Cellphone Zombie Tessellation #3
Just in time for tonight’s episode of Marketplace on CBC.ca — “Addicted to Your Cellphone?” A third tessellation, this one in symmetry group P6, one 6 point, one 3 point and one 2 point rotation. Tiny feet for the sidewalk and dangerous street crossings. Big bulging eyes from staring at the screen for too long. (more…)
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Cellphone Zombie Tessellations
Seems #cellphonezombies are in the news quite a bit these days. Either in remote areas, small villages or in the dense jungle of big cities, a new phenomenon, a dangerous practice, far worse than distracted driving, you have no seatbelt! Walking around while looking at their cellphone’s latest bleeps, people seem unable to just ignore their techno addiction and focus on the world around them. (m…
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Colour Methods for Tessellations
Colour Methods for Tessellations
For the longest time, I resisted the need to add more colour, different colours, to my tessellations. I wrote before about this need, Recolouring a tessellation. Here are a few samples of my newly transformed prints. And some notes about my findings on the topic of colour in tessellations. (more…)
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