Tessellation Program

I found a program that makes tessellations for you, like Kali makes wallpaper patterns.  It is fun and definitely useful.  Here it is!

Pattern Artists

I found these two portfolio websites this summer of illustrators who do patterns. If you go to the pattern sections of their portfolios you can see that many of them were actually purchased and printed on merchandise. Many of the patterns don't have reflection or rotation, just translation. They are, however, really cute.

Julia Rothman

Helen Dardik

Tessellation in class

So during class today we were all tessellating with rectangles, parallelograms and triangles. that was easy enough, but when question 6 asked us to use a shape that was a little weirder it was really a challenge. I admit that instead of paying attention to what came next in class i continued to work on this shape. I was going to make it work. And i did! check it out! (look only at the dark blue lines)

James Nahtwey

This is important. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_nachtwey_fights_xdrtb.html

Wallpaper artists

I was stumbling around the internet and I came across this website full of wallpaper design artists.....there are some unique designs and some terrible ones but there are many artists to choose from with multiple pieces, check them out.....they also show some images of the machines used to print the paper. here's the link "http://www.wallpapersbyartists.com/"

MC Escher

This web page has a few short videos about Escher and his work. The videos show a slightly different view of his patterns than what we are doing in class. The interviews are in black and white and subtitled, but I suggest you watch them just to see Escher's silly beard. In one interview he talks about how he was supposed to be an architect but he chose to be a graphic artist instead. There is even a video of him making a wood carving for one of his prints, which I thought was very cool.

The many ways and shapes to math.

so i was searching online for something cool and interesting to put onto my post, and i finally stumbled upon this site. basically it's what we have been doing in class just interpreted in a diffrent way, and with a different flow chart (which was what i think the teacher was saying that there are a bunch of different ways to categories frieze patterns and so many mathematicians use these other types of charts to decipher frieze patterns). So i tryed it and it is pretty difficult since i'm used to the p-_ _ _ system. But it's fun to see what you get out of this system, don't try too hard cause this should just be fun. And also it shows different types of patterns for different cultures, time periods etc. Its an interesting little article not too long take a look.

http://www.phschool.com/atschool/math_activity_library/frieze_frames_s.html