This next model is an example of a corrugation. Basket Weave Tessellation, Designed by Joel Cooper and Folded by Tom Crain (Photo by Evan Zodl) It was photographed at an origami convention. Our first image for this post is a basket weave classic tessellation. This post features a collection of mostly classic tessellations and corrugations. There are a couple other types of tessellations and even combinations of them in the same model. You can see the entire surface of the paper and it doesn’t look that neat to put a light behind it. There’s always an odd number of layers since the paper needs to always be folded back on itself to continue the pattern.īecause different sections of the tessellations have different numbers of layers you can turn on a light behind the tessellation for some neat effects.Ĭorrugations are made with one layer and the tessellation pattern is formed with wrinkles and waves in the paper. The paper in these tessellations is folded into an odd number of layers to make the shapes and patterns. There are 2 major types of tessellations, the classic type and corrugations.Ĭlassic tessellations are usually based on either a square or hexagonal grid. The objective is to make students aware how joining various designs in a tessellation pattern can give them a unique and original design to be used a number of ways, as a background to posters and web pages, as well as patterns in textile design.Origami tessellations are essentially patterns, folded with origami, that repeat themselves as long as you want to continue folding. I’m always surprised at the very creative final tessellation patterns that some students have made on this project. Once they create a basic ‘template’ or pattern, they must use their imagination to fill it completely in, making drawings of ‘critters’ and figures, similar to what Escher did. He would distort the shapes and appearances of some of these figures in order to fit them into the basic tessellation pattern.Īs a lecturer of design for the past 25 years, I’ve frequently introduced tessellation assignments to my fundamental design classes, and instructed them on how to create an overall tessellation pattern. His series Regular Division of the Plane (begun in 1936) is a collection of his tessellated drawings, many of which feature animals, birds and imaginary human figures. While Escher was not a mathematician, many of his works were based on Laws of Mathematics and geometric grids, which helped to give his artwork a sense of visual balance, even when they bordered upon impossible & infinitive patterns. Escher illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps and murals. Escher was artist & draughtsman most known for his woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints, which tend to feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, and of course, his tessellation designs. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher (Holland, 1898-1972), who is sometimes referred to as the “Father of Modern Tessellations”. Though the term ‘tessellation’ has appeared in earlier art designs, the man who made it famous in the art world was M. They are also called mosaic tiling patterns.Ī key part of a tessellation pattern is that all the figures are interlocking, and they border on one another, leaving no gaps or space between objects. The word tessellation means to fit or join polygons (an enclosed plane, like a square or triangle) into flat, continuous patterns. The objects in a tessellation share edges with other objects in the pattern. Tessellations can be defined as repetitive designs in which positive and negative shapes are of equal importance and consume the entire surface of artwork.
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