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M. C. Escher

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There are all different factors, parts, and names for tessellations. But let’s start with the beginning. Who created tessellations? M.C. Escher was an artist and extremely creative, considering he was the one who created tessellations. M.C. Escher was “...a 20th-century dutch illustrator whose innovate works explored echoing patterns perception, space, and transformation.” M.C. Escher worked on many different things with many different views including “...engravings and prints that captured natural landscapes and architecture, startlingly playing with perspective, orientation and shadow.” M.C. Escher was a genius. There are all different factors that go in with tessellations. There are regular tessellations, semi-regular tessellations, monohedral tessellations, duals, M.C. Escher and modified monohedral tessellation and aperiodic tessellations. A regular tessellation has “...three regular shapes…: the equilateral triangle, the square and the regular hexagon.” The “[s]emi- regular tessellations are made of more than one kind of regular tessellations.” There are more tessellations and different rules that come into play when making them, but they all …show more content…

The plane of a tessellation also known as space “ is any subdivision of the plane..into regions or “cells” that border each other exactly, with no gaps in between” When people think of tessellations they often think of mirror symmetry, although it’s not the only one “[o]ther kinds include translational symmetry…; rotation symmetry…; and glide symmetry.” Translational symmetry is when you can move the entire pattern. Rotational symmetry can be rotated around a fixed point. Glide symmetry “the pattern can first be reflected and then shifted (translated) along the axis of reflection.” All of these different tessellations are different and have a unique pattern and look to

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