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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sweet video in response to your post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT6B9idq-Go
- Justin Rose
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.
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
Those are cool i never thought about that before.
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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