Monday, November 10, 2008

tesselating leaves

every time i walk down a street with an oak tree i think about tessellations. I keep feeling like these leaves could tessellate, or maybe a few different types of leaves could fit together and continue endlessly... there's just all this really great positive and negative space in these leaves...
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5 comments:

  1. billyreavisNovember 11, 2008 at 1:53 PM

    sweet video in response to your post

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT6B9idq-Go


    - Justin Rose

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  2. brndnewloserNovember 12, 2008 at 9:14 AM

    if you think about it trees are a form of organic tessellations. they never stop growing unless man makes it that way. they go on and on forever.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 13, 2008 at 9:33 AM

    I was thinking about tessellations in nature and i realized there are actually more organic tessellations out there than you would think. Here are some examples.

    www.pbase.com/beekeeper/image/23669013

    See full-size image.

    mathforum.org/.../imgUpload/Fractal_Broccoli.jpg


    -Drew Duquet

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  4. PeterNovember 20, 2008 at 2:17 PM

    Those are cool i never thought about that before.

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  5. Ly MarieNovember 23, 2008 at 6:48 PM

    I know exactly what you are talking about! I like to look at EVERYTHING when I'm walking around to see if it can tessellate...

    My favorites are pineapple skins and bee hives.

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