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Published: 2007-04-26 12:28:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 7113; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 262
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Page Two of Two. (Page One is here [link] )This is a quick tutorial for just one of many starter-shapes (rectangles) and one of many ways to arrange tiles (there are 17 ways, in combinations of flips, slides, friezes, and so on).
When choosing a theme for your tessellation, choose a thing, animal or plant that is both flexible and exotic, such as fish, birds, unusual clothing, and insects. If you choose something unposable, well-known, and which normally is seen in only one shape (such as a camera, toaster, or bicycle), then your ability to tweak its outline is severely restricted.
To do this lesson, you will need two sheets of tracing paper, a colored pencil, a normal pencil, an eraser, a straightedge, and a medium-wide black felt-tip marker.
Now that you know how to do a tessellation, submit one to DeviantArt.com, to Tessellations.org, and to the free contest at WorldOfEscher.com/contest/
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... I like your mono eraser... I also think the tessellation looks like a turtle.
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I'll make you a deal:
If you draw the tessellation as a turtle, and post it on DeviantArt, I will also post it to the Guest Artist gallery on my website "Tessellations dot org" which gets roughly 3500 visitors per day.
I'd only ask that you tweak the outline of the turtle shape to make it (still tessellate, but) more closely resemble a turtle.
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Of course. It may take a while because I am always super busy, but I'll try to get to it. I made one a long time ago of Batman.... hehehe... I guess I will upload that too.
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great work! you make it look pretty simple
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Seen it before somewhere, but i don't have ehough imagination, too see something like animal in this noisy-shapes, he-he.
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Wow. This is a wonderful wonderful tutorial. Thank you!
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Oh what a fantastic tutorial! I can understand it!
Something artistic might happen now the maths have been removed.
Seeing you like criticism....pink cats don't work for me!
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re: Pink
I know, I know... I was tempted to use an ochre (yellow-brown) pencil instead, or make the pink animals pigs, but a) curly pigtails wouldn't fit in the tessellation, and b) I was too lazy to re-do the first photo, in which I showed a pink pencil.
Even worse, the pink paint on the pencil was so garish that it spoiled the photo every time I heightened the contrast. *sigh*
Maybe I should go back and digitally change the pinks to browns.
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re: "the maths have been removed"
Yeah, I was surprised how little "math" was involved. I worte the tutorial for artists and for art and math classes in Elementary schools, but now that I look at what I wrote... man, there's no math in it! Not even graph paper, or an angle-measurer, or an explanation of parallelograms.
Escher said that tessellations appealed to mathematicians, but that the mathematicians could only describe tessellations, not really viscerally enjoy'em-- like going to the garden gate, but not venturing into the garden.
(Besides, describing a pink cat mathematically sounds like painting a house with a toothbrush.)
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Nah, just leave it as it is...you will probably get lots of...'well cats aren't pink' type comments. Count them and see how many times people think you need to know this fact!
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Hmmm. Maybe I should post some pictures of Mr. Bigglesworth (Dr. Evil's hairless pink cat, from the Austin Powers movies). #grin#
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