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Tessellations
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:51 pm
by sgt.null
Tessellations here mean designs featuring animals, birds, etc, which can fill the page, without gaps or over-lapping, to form a pattern that completely fills a space.
clowns
punk ghosts
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:44 am
by dANdeLION
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:07 am
by [Syl]
A tesseract tessellation.
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:21 am
by sgt.null
4 Guitarists by Nicole Benoit
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:55 pm
by Auleliel
Ooh! I love tessellations!
I'd post some of my favorites, but I can't figure out where the image url is on google images.
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:18 pm
by TheFallen
Flying elephants...
Startled dragons...
Escher's angry dogs...
Escher's swans to fish...
Salamander invasion from the centre of the earth...
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:41 pm
by sgt.null
Circle Limit III by M. C. Escher (1959)
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:08 pm
by aliantha
Escher is awesome. I had a print of this one, which I used to hang over the staircase when we had a townhouse:
Of course, it's kind of been done to death.
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:20 am
by sgt.null
love the kitty ali!
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 12:41 am
by aliantha
Thanks, Sarge -- it popped right up when I googled "Escher stairs".
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:17 am
by sgt.null
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:25 am
by Linna Heartbooger
For more, see the webpage of one of my favorite math profs ever: mathbun.com/v/pattern/
There might even be some 3-D space-filling tesselations in there if you poke around enough.
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:31 am
by Linna Heartbooger
Don't know if this is strictly a 3D tessellation, but feast your eyes:
=)
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:12 pm
by aliantha
That's cool, Lina!
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:40 pm
by sgt.null
those are cool lina!
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:21 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
Math prof, too much time on his hands... it's what he does for a LIVING. It's his field... as in, I think he's written papers about tessellations and space-filling, tessellatable... thingies. I think one is called "dodecafoam."
Topologists & geometers have way too much fun.
IMO, there's WAAAY neater stuff on his site than those things!
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:17 am
by sgt.null
