If, as a result of your visit, you venture through that garden gate and hop on that merry-go-round, please send us your tessellation art for inclusion in the guest gallery. We have a little simple geometry in the lessons and explanations, but nothing as fancy as the serious adults' math-oriented tessellation websites. Escher said, "Mathematicians go to the garden gate but they never venture through to appreciate the delights within." Let me put that another way: you're missing the fun if you use a microscope to enjoy a merry-go-round. We do show a smidgen of introductory geometry and quite a few do-it-yourself tutorials. This site is a dedicated art site, not requiring much math. We have their history, do-it-yourself tessellation lessons, and galleries of examples by school students, guest artists, the webmasters Seth and Dr. On these pages is information about all aspects of tessellations. You can see example tessellations at the top of every page in this website, and in our many many galleries of tessellation art by pros and amateurs, adults and kids. Brick walls, tiled floors, and the honeycomb in bee hives are all tessellations. These fill a surface, usually a 2D plane, without gaps or overlaps. Tessellations here mean symmetric designs featuring animals, toasters, persons, etc, which can fit together in repetitive patterns like simple jigsaw puzzles. (with some features disabled) or a full-feature version for about 30 US dollars.
#Tessellation examples software#
Of "TesselManiac", his NEW TESSELLATION CREATION SOFTWARE Raised our standard for tessellation art sent by you for display here on. Papercraft seahorse-, goldfish-, & turtle-themeģD octahedron, dodecahedron, and cube tessellations. Oakgrove Primary School aaaalll the way over in Glasgow, Scotland shows off the tessellation art made by 4 of their 4th level students, just 8 years old.īruce Bilney & Webmaster Seth have made do-it-yourself print-&-fold templates for you to make Uniquely, individualistically decorated fish in tessellations on canvases, on sculpted,wooden, and molded pendants, (What is WRONG with this guy?!?)įoundation encourages everyone to enjoy our differences and similarities, and for self-described Professor Kevin Lee decorates his office door with tessellation stickers made with a vinyl cutterĪnd once again drives his car over his art.
#Tessellation examples how to#
This one uses equilateral triangles, "kite" shapes, and rotational (spin) symmetry.Ī review of Pam Stephens' and Jim McNeill's introductory do-it-yourself tessellationīook for artistic kids roughly 8 to 11 years old.Ī tutorial for how to make a rubber stampįrom a medicine bottle or the top of a soda bottle. We have a new tracing paper tessellation tutorial. Try coloring our new "Angry Birds" tessellation.
To see Alain's new tessellations and to see this one tessellate visit Ĭheck out the new tessellations from Hawthorne Elementary School NEW STUFF: Alain Nicolas, the great French tessellation artist, has posted a gallery of new original tessellations that are quite amazing. Escher to celebrate Escher's birthday: June 17 NEW STUFF: Chris Watson has posted a tessellated portrait of M.
NEW STUFF: Gabriel Sotillo is eager to show his first tessellation: Quails
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