Friday, March 20, 2009

Intro to Tessellation


Tessellation

What is a tessellation?
Pictures of tiles of images of animals and other figures in patterns that don’t overlap or leave gaps.

M.C. Escher
Escher became good at graphic art as a kid, and decided to change his medium to wood. He went to the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts until 1922. After realizing that he had potential in the woodcutting field, he decided to change directions.
He later moved to Italy and created a lot of his landscape designs from various angles and complex ideas. rbmsl
As a child, he was interested in filing the plane without overlapping or leaving spaces. He made his actual first tessellation in 1925. After that he began to create wallpaper tessellations. By the end of his life he had over 130 tessellations that were mind blowing and amazing designs. M.C. Escher became famous for his masterful drawings, and impossible ideas that made you look deep into the image.

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