Tessellation
Tessellation project Draft
Written Response
1.
The Idea behind my tessellation in a cat. I cut out the square to look like a cat by cutting out legs to make them look like ears. The legs on top of the cat serve as ears leaving a cut out in the bottom. The theme is animals, I was going for an animal like figure when I cut it out. I was not sure what exactly I would come up with but it ended up looking like a cat so I went with it. I wanted it to look good but still be a small tessellation and a cat does not have large parts protruding such as a large tail of very long legs. This allowed me to fit them together and still include a lot of them.
2.
I decided to start with a square because its shape allowed me to picture what I wanted in my mind. This made it easier to achieve the result I wanted instead of a random shape. The square shapes box like characteristics allow it to look like an animal. Unlike a polygon or other type of shape it looks like an animal body, creating a more real look.
4. In my opinion tessellation's are art. I say this because I believe that all art is math. I do not think of tessellation's as the only mathematical art. Everything in the world includes math. Even abstract random art is mathematical, I think the artist is always using math, however unpredictable, to calculate where to put things. I believe that random math is the very definition of art.
Sight: http://www.tessellations.org/eschergallery1thumbs.shtml
On the other hand tessellation's are slightly closer to math than art because the artist does not get to be as creative. Instead of making the rules the artist must follow them. The element of art is still in the tessellation, just not in the translation. In the end it comes down to opinion. Opinion and facts, but in this case facts best prove my theory.
Sight: http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html
1.
The Idea behind my tessellation in a cat. I cut out the square to look like a cat by cutting out legs to make them look like ears. The legs on top of the cat serve as ears leaving a cut out in the bottom. The theme is animals, I was going for an animal like figure when I cut it out. I was not sure what exactly I would come up with but it ended up looking like a cat so I went with it. I wanted it to look good but still be a small tessellation and a cat does not have large parts protruding such as a large tail of very long legs. This allowed me to fit them together and still include a lot of them.
2.
I decided to start with a square because its shape allowed me to picture what I wanted in my mind. This made it easier to achieve the result I wanted instead of a random shape. The square shapes box like characteristics allow it to look like an animal. Unlike a polygon or other type of shape it looks like an animal body, creating a more real look.
4. In my opinion tessellation's are art. I say this because I believe that all art is math. I do not think of tessellation's as the only mathematical art. Everything in the world includes math. Even abstract random art is mathematical, I think the artist is always using math, however unpredictable, to calculate where to put things. I believe that random math is the very definition of art.
Sight: http://www.tessellations.org/eschergallery1thumbs.shtml
On the other hand tessellation's are slightly closer to math than art because the artist does not get to be as creative. Instead of making the rules the artist must follow them. The element of art is still in the tessellation, just not in the translation. In the end it comes down to opinion. Opinion and facts, but in this case facts best prove my theory.
Sight: http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html
How I made my tile.
1. I started with a square with a sidle length of 4 in.
2. I drew the cut out and rotated it 180d.
3. I found a lose midpoint of the edge and cut out a triangle.
4. I rotated the triangle 180d.
5. I used rotation to make my tile, in the end I saw a cat.
1. I started with a square with a sidle length of 4 in.
2. I drew the cut out and rotated it 180d.
3. I found a lose midpoint of the edge and cut out a triangle.
4. I rotated the triangle 180d.
5. I used rotation to make my tile, in the end I saw a cat.
1.
They are the same length.
2.
The person does not deviate to a triangle.
3.
So that the camper gets to the tent fast.
They are the same length.
2.
The person does not deviate to a triangle.
3.
So that the camper gets to the tent fast.