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Totally
Tessellated
This is one of my favourite sites. A fascinating
collection of tessellations, includes details about the history and
art associated with tessellations, especially Escher. Enough
material to keep a class going for months.
Top
Notch Tessellations
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Tessellation tutorial -tutorial and templates for making your
own tessellations. |
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A first class site from ProtoZone - a
collection of interactive pattern making applications written by
Al Jarnow. Click and hold on the '?'
to get instructions for
each activity then explore and have fun!
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KALEIDODRAW
draw with a magic
kaleidoscope |
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BORDERLINERS
on and on and on forever
all in a row |
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WALLOVERS
wallpaper patterns that
repeat in 2-space |
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LINOTILER
square tiles on a flat
floor |
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QUILTER
put the pieces together and make a quilt design |
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CUBITS
sculpt building blocks & turn an object in space |
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UCELLO
shape and move a vase in three-dimensional space |
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SNOWFLAKER
an early holiday greeting from ProtoZone . . . |
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MAGIC
CARPET Weave symmetries
into an instant rug
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SAMPLER
Digital stitches stretch out into seven border patterns |
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Excellent
examples of tessellations and tilings from Ian
Alexander's site.
Regular, semi-regular,
(Sir Roger) Penrose
tiling etc.
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An excellent site especially the tessellation
gallery. Press F11 to fill the screen. Escher gallery worth a
look too.
Download
a tessellation project - Tessellation
WOW! as a PDF file uses a variety of interdisciplinary
activities.
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Create Escher tessellations
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by step with "Paintbrush" or "Paint"
Good fun from
Australia - Ozzigami
Tessellation
animation from Japan, and Escher
Patterns Yoshiaki Araki.
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The life
and work of Escher - A tour of four virtual rooms at The
National Gallery of Art in Washington DC has more than 400
examples of the art of M.C. Escher. Eighty are produced here.
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Floor
tiles - interactive quadrilateral shape to tessellate.
Manipulate the corners to change the shape. Use the
What? How? Why? at the top of the page to get the best out of this
site.
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Tessellate - change a triangle,
rectangle or hexagon to form a regular or irregular polygon that tiles the plane. Use
the What? How? Why? at the top of the page
for good information about the activity.
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What about Origami
Tessellations -downloadable instructions and links to similar
sites.
Gallery of quilt
patterns.
The
mathematics Quilt
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Need more information on Tessellations
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Computer Software for Tessellations
Books
Create
your own tessellations - lessons from Canada.
PDF tessellation
tutorial
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Maths or Art. Lesson plans from Tantalizing
Tessellations integrates maths with language arts and arts
education. Pupils are involved in problem solving using
translations, rotations and reflections. This American site is
intended for fifth grade pupils but the ten lessons are easily
adapted for KS1 2 or 3.
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Fibonacci
Maths
and art things to make
Maths
in Art pages
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Maths
Art an exhibition from Budapest - Symmetry and Asymmetry at
the Hungarian National Art Gallery.
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This is a very comprehensive
commercial site on the World
of Escher. Useful if you wish to buy books, posters, mugs,
ties etc. for school. The information of Sir Roger Penrose (see
above) is linked to this site .
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