Tessellations - Math or Art? |
The tessellation theme that I had come up with was supposed to make it look like it was a 3-D-ish cityscape. I thought that this would be a cool design to do because when it is translated across the paper it would look like it was a city.
The way that I first started this was I took a square piece of paper and then started to draw a design that I thought would look interesting on it. After finishing the design I began to cut it out and then take the piece that I had cut out and pasted it to the other side of the shape. This make it be able to tessellate across the 11/17 page that we were to copy the design onto. To be able to move the design across the page, I moved it across it at about a 90 degree angle starting in the middle of the page.
I think that if I had to choose whether or not geometry is math or art then I think that I would have to say that it could be more art oriented. I think that Escher really did a great job of defining that geometry can be used in an art related fashion. The way that he had used geometric designs to create several hundred magnificent works of art using methods from mathematics was, I think, very defining to show that geometry is more so an art, rather than math. I also think that tessellations are most certainly an art, rather than just a way to show that things can tessellate. There are many cool and intricate patterns that can come out of tessellations. One such example, as stated above, was M.C. Escher
The way that I first started this was I took a square piece of paper and then started to draw a design that I thought would look interesting on it. After finishing the design I began to cut it out and then take the piece that I had cut out and pasted it to the other side of the shape. This make it be able to tessellate across the 11/17 page that we were to copy the design onto. To be able to move the design across the page, I moved it across it at about a 90 degree angle starting in the middle of the page.
I think that if I had to choose whether or not geometry is math or art then I think that I would have to say that it could be more art oriented. I think that Escher really did a great job of defining that geometry can be used in an art related fashion. The way that he had used geometric designs to create several hundred magnificent works of art using methods from mathematics was, I think, very defining to show that geometry is more so an art, rather than math. I also think that tessellations are most certainly an art, rather than just a way to show that things can tessellate. There are many cool and intricate patterns that can come out of tessellations. One such example, as stated above, was M.C. Escher