ALL ABOUT TESSELLATIONS
What is a tessellation?
Self-test: tessellation or not?
Tessellations are All Around Us
The Historical Beginnings
M. C. Escher
About Escher
A Gallery of Escher's Art 1
A Gallery of Escher's Art 2
A Gallery of Escher's Art 3
Easy Geometry for Tessellation
Escher style, or Abstract?
Periodic or not?
Types of Symmetry
Introduction
Translation (Slide)
Reflection (Flip)
Glide + Reflect (Slide + Flip)
Rotation (Spin, Turn)
Resize (Inflation, Dilation, Scaling)
The Heesch System
MAKE YOUR OWN
How to Make A Tessellation
Papercut Method
Tracing Paper: Translation (Slide)
Tracing Paper: Rotation (Spin)
Line Method 1 (Triangle Spin)
Line Method 2 (Square Spin)
Line & Flipping Method
Slice Method 1
Slice Method 2
Gap Method 1
Gap Method 2
Multi-Tile Method
Circle Method
How to Make a 3D Tess
Octahedron with your Tessellation
Dodecahedron Clown Pattern
Video Lessons
Send us your art
Good enough to show here?
Easy, Fun Themes
More Hints for Beginners
Coloring In a Drawing
How to Make an Asian Chop (stone stamp)
How to Make a Rubber Stamp
REVIEWS
Software
An Overview
!NEW! 12/2013: Flexify 2
Kali for Windows
Shodor.org
SymmetryWorks
Tess
Tessella
Tesselmania
!NEW! 12/2013: Tesselmaniac
Books
Magic Mirror Coloring Book
Tessellations (introductory, for kids)
Parcelles d'Infini (in French)
Designing Tessellations
Visions of Symmetry
2D ART
By School Grades 1-6
Oakgrove Primary, Glasgow Scotland
Villa Montessori, AZ
2014 Field ES, Illinois
2013 Hawthorne ES, Illinois
Zaneis ES, Wilson, OK 2013
Lone Tree, Colorado
2013 Batari School, Indonesia Part 2
2013 Batari School, Indonesia Part 1
2012 Hawthorne ES, Illinois
Zaneis ES, Wilson, OK 2012
Honey ES, Lubbock, Texas
2011 Hawthorne ES, Illinois
John Barry ES, Illinois
Riverview ES, Arizona
Saint Ignacius Loyola, Pennsylvania
Geneva City, New York State
DECTC
By School Grades 7-9
Coosa MS, Rome, Georgia
2012 J R Masterman, Pennsylvania
2011 J R Masterman, Pennsylvania
North Corbin Jr HS, Louisiana
Clearwater Middle Sch, Minnesota
Lizzie M Burges, Seguin, Texas
The Make-A-Fish Foundation
By Webmaster Seth
People, Faces, & Heads
Things with Wings
Furry Animals
Fish
Reptiles
Letters & Other Non-Living Things
Non-Tessellation Escher-style Art
By Webmaster Dr. David
Cats & Dogs
Water Animals
Things
People, Heads, & Faces
Flying Animals
Other Land Animals
Non-Tessellation Art
Tessellation Animations & Videos
By M. C. Escher
About Escher
Escher's Art 1
Escher's Art 2
Escher's Art 3
Art by Solo Artists
Guest Artists' Gallery 4
Guest Artists' Gallery 3
Guest Artists' Gallery 2
Guest Artists' Gallery 1
Mr. Hop David
Mr. Bruce Bilney
Mr. Claudio Ramirez
Rossi's Graffiti
Tessellations from Real Materials
3D ART
Seth's 3D Stuff
3D Tessellations by Various Artists
The Make-A-Fish Foundation
3D from El Mirage, AZ
How to Make a 3D Tess
Dodecahedron Seahorse Pattern
Dodecahedron Clown Pattern
Octahedron with your Tessellation
Octahedron Turtle Pattern
Octahedron Goldfish Pattern
Cube Clown Pattern
OTHER
Ambigram Art
Trick Perspective
How to Make an Asian Chop (stone stamp)
How to Make a Rubber Stamp
Scuba Maps
THIS WEBSITE
Home (Top Page)
What's New?
About Us
The Website
webmaster Seth Bareiss
Webmaster Dr. David Annal
Copyright etc.
Contact Us
Link To Us!
Links
Dear Visitor: Welcome to Tessellations.org
contact: new_webmaster (at) tessellations (dot) org
Check out the new tessellations from Hawthorne Elementary School
Will this tessellate?
NEW STUFF: Gabriel Sotillo is eager to show his first tessellation: Quails
NEW STUFF: Chris Watson has posted a tessellated portrait of M. C. Escher to celebrate Escher's birthday: June 17 http://tessellationart.com/2016/06/m-c-escher-tessellating-birthday-portrait/
NEW STUFF: Alain Nicolas, the great French tessellation artist, has posted a gallery of new original tessellations that are quite amazing. To see Alain's new tessellations and to see this one tessellate visit http://tessellations-nicolas.com
Try coloring our new "Angry Birds" tessellation.
We have a new tracing paper tessellation tutorial.
This one uses equilateral triangles, "kite" shapes, and rotational (spin) symmetry.
A review of Pam Stephens' and Jim McNeill's introductory do-it-yourself tessellation
book for artistic kids roughly 8 to 11 years old.
A tutorial for how to make a rubber stamp
from a medicine bottle or the top of a soda bottle.
Professor Kevin Lee decorates his office door with tessellation stickers made with a vinyl cutter
and once again drives his car over his art. (What is WRONG with this guy?!?)
Make-A-Fish
Foundation encourages everyone to enjoy our differences and similarities, and for self-described
"non-artists" to become artists. They show us
uniquely, individualistically decorated fish in tessellations on canvases, on sculpted,wooden, and molded pendants,
in papercraft, and more.
Oakgrove Primary School aaaalll the way over in Glasgow, Scotland shows off the tessellation art made by 4 of their 4th level students, just 8 years old.
Bruce Bilney & Webmaster Seth have made do-it-yourself print-&-fold templates for you to make
papercraft seahorse-, goldfish-, & turtle-theme
3D octahedron, dodecahedron, and cube tessellations.
We've
raised our standard for tessellation art sent by you for display here on Tessellations.org.
Kevin Lee now offers a FREE COPY
of "TesselManiac", his NEW TESSELLATION CREATION SOFTWARE
(with some features disabled) or a full-feature version for about 30 US dollars.
Click here for a more complete list of our newest tessellation stuff.
Tessellations here mean symmetric designs featuring animals, 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 art by pros and amateurs, adults and kids.
On these pages is information about all aspects of tessellations. We have their history, do-it-yourself tessellation lessons, and galleries of examples by school students, guest artists, the webmasters Seth and Dr. David, and of course M. C. Escher, the pioneer of the art.
This site is a dedicated art site, not requiring much math. Math teachers, don't be forlorn. We do show a smidgen of introductory 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 adults' math-oriented tessellation websites.
If, as a result of your visit, you venture through that garden gate and hop on that merry-go-round, please send us your tessellation art for inclusion in the guest gallery.
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.
Tessellations.org was Yahoo's 'Pick of the Week' on Feb 15 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 visitors per day.
TEACHERS, SCHOOLS, and ARTISTS - This site is actively seeking art, lesson plans, and tutorials from guest contributors. Contact us.
SCHOOLS - Recently, many schools have asked to have their students' artwork put in a school gallery here. Yes, we'd be happy to post your class's tessellations in a "school gallery" on www.Tessellations.org. Here's how you can make it happen.
Posters, Postcards, Jigsaw Puzzles, Mugs, and Magnets
We sell reprints of some of Webmaster Sethness's art online through "dA galleries".
Click here to visit that online art store. We will try to post a clickable link to the store next to each tessellation available in the store. Those links look like this:
Please enjoy the site - Seth
This is a free demo result from the Wayback Machine Downloader. It is not a complete website.