Tessellations.org Website Review

NEW STUFF: Chris Watson has posted a tessellated portrait of M. C. Escher to celebrate Escher's birthday: June 17 NEW STUFF: Alain Nicolas, the great French tessellation artist, has posted a gallery of new original tessellations that are quite amazing. tessellation tutorial. This one uses equilateral triangles, kite shapes, and rotational (spin) symmetry his car over his art. (What is WRONG with this guy?!?) Make-A-Fish Foundation self-described non-artists to become artists. They show us uniquely, individualistically decorated fish in tessellations on canvases, on aaaalll the way over in Glasgow, Scotland shows off the tessellation art made by 4 of their 4th level students, just 8 years old disabled) or a full-feature version for about 30 US dollars. symmetric designs featuring an*mals, toasters, persons, etc, which can fit together in repetitive patterns like simple jigsaw puzzles. These fill a surface, usually a 2D plane, without gaps or overlaps. Brick walls, tiled floors, and the honeycomb in bee hives are all tessellations. You can see example tessellations at the top of every page in this website, and in our many many galleries of tessellation On these pages is information about all aspects of tessellations. We have their history, do-it-yourself tessellation lessons, and galleries geometry and quite a few do-it-yourself tutorials. As M. C. 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 have a little simple geometry in the lessons and explanations, but nothing as fancy as the serious ad*lts' TEACHERS - This whole site is entirely suitable & inoffensive for young children, space aliens, the Pope, garden gnomes, and grandparents. The space aliens and Pope might need some help with the English. 2004. Since then we've been the top website for tessellations on Google, Bing, Yahoo, and so on. We get between 3,000 and 8,000