Tuesday 12 July 2011

Tesselations

In this post I'll be looking at (again) repeat patterns. For some reason I just cannot get enough of them!



Some shapes made in Illustrator - The top row is of a simple kite shape, duplicated and set up ready for a batch of lasering later today!

the bottom of that picture you can see a 'Sierpinski Triangle', which is one of those shapes I can draw, but not have any clue as to the mathematical algorithms behind it. As Wikipedia puts it, a Sierpinski triangle it a confined recursion of triangles to form a geometric lattice.



Tessellation of a shape - maximising material usage!

Spherical Infinity:



There are quite a few variants on circular fractals, but this is one my puny brain could understand!

A progressional view of the creation of this shape.



Shape generation showed here with the lasered examples.















1 comment:

  1. Cool use of circular infinity. If you want a finer (thinner-lined) version (black on transparent), check out http://tnlc.com/eep/circles/circular_infinity.png

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