A new look at everything

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_everything.html

While brainstorming ideas for the Tessellation project I checked out some work done from artists all around the world. Here's a link to a Tessellation artist data base, http://tessellation.info/?open=general/artistinfo.php&lang=english&style=default.

Looking at this work will help you form a piece of your own.

Wordle

My 10-year-old sister showed me this site! Wordle is a toy for making "word clouds" from text that you enter.  The words you want to put into patterns are arranged randomly by an ingenious program designed by an IBM programmer.  The arrangements are unique in different sizes, fonts, colors and shapes.  (It takes a little while to load so be patient!) Here is one I made.  I have also posted one someone made using Barack Obama's 2004 speech.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Photographer Yann Arthus - Bertrand is aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living.  He has been photographing our planet from above since 1994.  His images are amazing!  Click here to see more.  

Digitized books

I was just looking around and found this very interesting. Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning.html

Math and art

I found this website which shows a project that I thought looked pretty cool. From what I gathered, they made this whole structure out of a bunch of hexagons arranged in different shapes. The final result is pretty big and impressive.

Tessellation project

I wikipedia(ed) tessellations and through clicking links i came upon Tiling with Regular Polygons.
There were a lot of different cool graph paper-ish ideas that could be helpful for the project we have. If you click on the image there is a bigger version that you can print and doodle on. I thought this pattern could be really interesting to try and make a design with.