tesselations

WHAT ARE TESSELATIONS?

TESSELATIONS ARE SHAPES THAT LINK UP WITH NO SPACES AND NO OVERLAPS TO COVER THE PAGE.

Today you are going to MAKE some tesselations at this website.  Follow the cloud links to make all of the parts of the city into tesselations.  Go to TESSELATION CITY to build your tesselations.

(We will be watching a Powerpoint to understand more about Mr Escher and his tesselation art.)

Then we are going to colour in our lizards which will become an Escher tesselation design when we put them together at the end. 🙂

Escher Lizard Tesselation and Christmas

Here are some photos of Escher’s Lizard tesselation, which you are going to put together today.

escher-lizard

Notice how the colours change what you see in the finished product?

mc-escher-lizard-tessellation-detail

And later this week we will be using what we have learnt about tesselations to make some Christmas tesselations.  Have a look at these photos for inspiration.

christmas-tree-tesselations1

christmas-tree-tesselations2

christmas-ornaments-tesselation

christmas-bells-tesselation

Isn’t Maths just so cool?  Look at how much Maths is used in Art, and Engineering, and just about everything in life….!