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Includes symmetric icons and fractals, quilts and planar repeating patterns and colored wallpaper patterns. |
University of Houston. Graphics and resources in symmetry and tiling. |
Hans Kuiper's work. Tessellations and optical art. Also tessellation software with the 17 wallpaper groups. |
A company selling foam puzzles, many based on planar tessellations (tilings) and fractals. |
Andrew Crompton's tiling and tessellation images. |
Graphics and references. |
This chaotic tiling consists of two equilateral pentagons, with angles (80, 160, 60, 140, 100) and (40, 200, 60, 100, 140). Sets are for sale. |
Art of Kenneth Landry. Tessellations, polyhedra and polyhedra decorated with tessellations. |
Tessellation software. 11 rosette, all 7 frieze and all 17 wallpaper groups included. |
A collection of links. |
Links in the Geometry Junkyard. |
Examples and source code. |
Pictures of some concrete tilings. |
Escher-like tessellations. |
By Marjorie Rice. Pentagons that tile the plane. Includes details and links. |
Tilings of Squared Squares and Squared Rectangles, constructed using javascript. |
Adobe Illustrator plug-in that automates creation of surface designs and ornaments based on seventeen wallpaper groups. On-line purchase. |
Artist Eleni Mylonas uses tilings. |
An introduction to tessellations explaining the basic underlying mathematics, and with many examples from real life. |
Resources compiled by the Math Forum. |
Tutorials and templates for making tessellations using ClarisWorks, the Geometer's Sketchpad, HyperCard, HyperStudio, and straightedge and compass, including step-by-step instructions for classroom activities. |
From the article "One Corona is Enough for the Euclidean Plane" by Doris Schattschneider and Nikolai Dolbilin. |
Compiled by Suzanne Alejandre for the Math Forum. |
Known solutions and a new recipe. |
Description of a class project. |
A program for drawing symmetrical patterns based on any of the 17 wallpaper groups, as well as several frieze and rosette groups. |
Software for Macintosh and SGI to create and manipulate tessellations of the sphere, Euclidean plane and hyperbolic plane, and to see how the Platonic solids are related to tessellations. |
Compiled by Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College. |
Definitions and images. |
Applying principles of computer graphics to the creation of geometric ornament, as a continuation of the tradition of ornamental design using modern tools and algorithms. |
Images and descriptions of the 17 plane symmetry groups. |
Explanations and graphics. |
A summary of the history behind the Penrose tiling in the math department at Miami university. |
Java applet drawing repeated patterns with selected symmetry. |
A Java applet which shows interactive wallpaper patterns. |
The graphic work of Chaim Goodman-Strauss, Arkansas. |
Tiling from the mathematical and historical viewpoint by Steve Edwards. Provides a number of examples of various types of tiles that tile the plane and includes periodic tiling plus Penrose's aperiodic tiles. |
Examples in traditional Japanese patterns. |
With interactive demos using Geometer's Sketchpad (requires Macintosh). |
Compiled by Yoshiaki Araki. |
Links to activities and other resources. |
Activities to create patterns using simple resources, such as making equilateral triangle from a circle. Suitable for upper primary and lower secondary ages. |
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