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14 May, 2008 - A tessellation of Greyhound dogs by guest artist J. Althoff

23 April, 2008 - A tessellation of butterflies by Seth

20th December, 2007 - Fish evolving? A fun cartoony tessellation by Seth.

1st January, 2008 - A brand new type of gallery: tessellations from a school's students, submitted by the schoolteacher and posted on our site as a single school's gallery. Have a look at DECTC school's tessellations. Does your school have tessellations you'd like to show in our galleries? Let us know!

20th December, 2007 - Fish evolving? A fun cartoony tessellation by Seth.

17th December, 2007 - Our first tessellation tutorial from a guest artist! See the Papercut Method by 15-year-old Rachael G.

10th December, 2007 - New Red Cross tessellation on intentionally crumpled paper by Seth.

5th November, 2007 - New tessellation art by amateur Paul Davey in our guest gallery: Cat with Fish, Fly and Lizard, Four Beaks, Mouse and Cheese, Seahorse and Fish, and Bluebird and Cat.

22nd July, 2007 - New real materials plate by Laurel Bender.

22nd July, 2007 - Guest tessellation by Coleman aged 8 - thanks Coleman.

4th June, 2007 - Highly recommended book reviewed - 'Parcelles d'infini'.
Added a new tessellation - Mon Dieu - the French are tessellating! - David.

8th May, 2007 - Added a new tutorial, specifically for young students and people without computers: Easy Tessellation Lesson using Pencil and Tracing Paper. We also provide it in downloadable easy-to-share and easy-to-print JPG and Adobe Acrobat PDF versions.

2nd May, 2007 - Added two new tessellations, in comic form: "If Escher drew a Farside Cartoon" and "Escher's Cat is Hungry".

28th April, 2007 - Added a new animation, "Dancing Cats meet Godzilla".

27th April, 2007 - Added a new tessellation, "Sailboat Race".

26th April, 2007 - Added a new tessellation, "Fly Away".

26th April, 2007 - Added Real Materials 13 - Town planning with tessellations!

26th March, 2007 - Added a new tessellation, "Invisible Pink Unicorns". ~Seth

24th March, 2007 - Added "28 Birds", a basswood bas-relief carving by Phil Allin based on Escher's "Sun and Moon"

22nd March, 2007 - Added a new digital tessellation to my gallery: "Infinite Politeness", showing uncounted tuxedo-clad men bowing to one another. ~Seth

12th March, 2007 - Added four new woodcarvings to our Real Materials gallery: Three tributes to Escher by guest-artist Phil Allin (1, 2, 3) and one original piece by Seth.

13th February, 2007 - Added a new animation-- a short film, this time-- to our animation gallery. This is a film of one of Seth's goldfish tessellation balls, showing the various Al Hirschfeld-style cartoon faces. See it here.

30th January, 2007 - Added a new tessellation to Seth's gallery (Lions Circled) and a new Flash animation (Lions) to our rapidly growing animations area.

27th January, 2007 - Begun Guest Gallery 3 with a contribution from Sara Kelly - see Galleries above

9th January, 2007 - A review of a popular, free tessellation program, Kali 5.2 for Windows95

12th December, 2006 - A new review of an old, popular standalone tessellation program, TesselMania

18th November, 2006 - How about an aquarium with fish that tessellate? See here

14th November, 2006 - Tessellations with Lego? Yes indeed, check Real Materials here. And I've added another animation of kite flying

11th November, 2006 - This weekend I've made a new animation, Dancers. ~Seth

8th November, 2006 - I've also done a new animation, Crebain Spies, remember the crow-like creatures who spied on the members of the Fellowship of the Ring? And there are two new tessellations in my art gallery 7 ~David

8th November, 2006 - In addition to asking you to contribute your art to our guest galleries, we encourage child and adult artists to enter World of Escher's free tessellation contest. This popular Internet contest has been held every six months for over a decade. Entering costs nothing; prizes vary, but are always from World of Escher's online store. More importantly, entries are displayed in a high-profile contest gallery for six months, during which time everyone is invited to visit the site, vote for a favorite, and leave positive comments for favorite entries. The top few entries apear in a permanent hall of fame. Entries should be in the form of emailed JPG files less than 100 kilobytes, and must be accompanied by a simple entry form. Entries can be made by computer or by hand, but must be original designs and be the work of the contestant whose name appears on the form. Although in the past the majority of past contestants and winners has been schoolchildren, World of Escher tells us that adult entries are increasing; if more than 15 adults enter the coming competition(s), then World of Escher will create separate divisions (and awards) for children and adults. ~Seth

7th November, 2006 - I've created a new animation, 'ducks', for our animation gallery. In addition, we welcome 'Devil Ducks', an original tessellation done in plaster, to our real materials gallery. Many thanks to guest artist R. S. Newall of New Zealand for contributing a photo of 'Devil Ducks' to our site. ~Seth

25th October, 2006 - Our 3rd birthday is on 30th October! To celebrate, David has given the site a shakeup and, even better, Seth has agreed to become joint owner/editor/manager 8-). This means changing the 'My Gallery' references throughout the site to 'David's and changing Seth's status from guest artist.

10th October, 2006 - 1 new tessellation ("4-and-twenty blackbirds") in Guest Artist Sethness Gallery 3

25th September, 2006 - 3 new tessellations in 'My Gallery 6'

5th September, 2006 - A few minor updates and improvements. Where's those promised contributions for the guest galleries?
Latest stats - we're serving up over 8K pages per day. The site has had 44 million accesses since we began in Oct 2003.

7th May, 2006 - Added another contribution to 'Guest Gallery 2' - thanks CraftLord

7th March, 2006 - Added another contribution to 'Guest Gallery 2' and started 'Sethness Gallery 3'.

18th February, 2006 - Added 3 more contributions to 'Guest Gallery 2. Thank you. Sethness has designed a tessellations colouring book for kids. Details and sample pages in 'Galleries - Guest Artist - Sethness' from orange menu bar.

7th February, 2006 - Added a tessellation of mine to 'My Gallery 6' and a contribution to 'Guest Gallery 2' - thank you, Gary. Also added 4 new tessellations to guest artist 'Sethness Gallery 2'.

21 January, 2006 - Added a Sethness tessellation ball to 'Real Materials' gallery. A few minor adjustments elsewhere.

21 December, 2005 - Added 2 more tessellations to 'My Gallery 6'

12 December, 2005 - Tessellations.org is pleased to welcome Sethness as Guest Artist. You can see his innovative drawings and pictures from the orange 'Galleries' menu above.

19th November, 2005 - 2 new guest submissions in the Guest Galleries - thank you Heather and Houston. Also added some fractal lobsters in My Gallery 6.

31st October, 2005 - We have had a 2nd birthday - see here. Also another tessellation added to My Gallery 6

12th September, 2005 - A new painted ball in Galleries - Real Materials.

3rd August, 2005 - 2 new tessellations in the new Guest Gallery no.2 - thank you for contributing Nicole and Abbey. 1 new tessellation in My Gallery 6.

25th June, 2005 - Thanks to the inspiration of the wonderful wall-hanging sewn by Lesley Hendricks, I have started a new section called 'Real Materials' - see under 'Galleries'. Here I hope to show off tessellations designed as actual quilts, carvings and anything else that can be held! If you have made anything like this, please send a photo for inclusion here.

15th June, 2005 - 2 new tessellations in my gallery 5 and start of my gallery 6.

6th June, 2005 - New tessellation in guest gallery from Hallie McGee age 9 - youngest contributor so far!! Come on you kids - more wanted! See your name on the Tessellations site.

24th May, 2005 - New tessellation in my gallery 5.

19th April, 2005 - New tessellations in my gallery 5 and Guest gallery.

30th March, 2005 - New tessellation in my gallery 5.

12th February, 2005 - Teachers - I have removed the tessellation of a nude woman! It was completely innocuous but when I put her in, I did not realise how popular the site would become with teachers of young children. It is now indexed by many junior librarians.

2nd February, 2005 - I have added another section to the 'Do It Yourself' menu to answer some 'Frequently Asked Questions'. The first ones deal with flipping and periodicy. There are more good contributions to the guest gallery too.

26th January, 2005 - At last someone has sent me a new tessellation for the guest gallery - thanks Pete.

26th December, 2004 - Added 1 more tessellations to My Gallery 5.

17th December, 2004 - Added another tessellation to My Gallery 5. Shame on you many teachers who promised your pupil's efforts for the guest gallery - NONE received. Perhaps your teaching is not as good as you thought it was!

11th June, 2004 - Added 2 more tessellations to My Gallery 5 and a "Desert Scene" to My Nice but not True gallery.

21st May, 2004 - Began My Gallery 5 with 2 new tessellations. Many of you promised to send in your tessellations for the guest gallery but few have. Perhaps my explanations were not as good as I thought and you keep telling me??

29th April, 2004 - My Gallery 4 is now full. Many schools are looking at the site and are very welcome but, because the guestbook is open to all, I'm afraid it's getting some 'silly' messages from some of the less well educated pupils 8-( I'm removing these as soon as I find them and I'm sorry if you see one before I've clobbered it!

5th April, 2004 - Added 3 more tessellations to My Gallery 4.

13th March, 2004 - Added more to My Gallery 4. I'm amazed at how popular this site has become - almost 2 million accesses since it started! Perhaps I'm doing something right 8-) Thanks everybody - but the Guest Gallery could do with some more pictures!

21st February, 2004 - Added this page. Added new DIY section - Multiple Motifs. Added example of this, 'Siameses', to 'My Gallery 4'. Brought index of pages up to date.

15th February, 2004 - Yahoo chose this site as a 'Pick of the Day' - thanks! Able to welcome many new visitors and read their comments in my guestbook. Thank you to all who filled it in (only a fraction of those who came though). I am now eagerly awaiting their contributions to my guest's gallery which is still very bare in spite of new bear 8-)

Since the site opened in October 2003, several people have asked for permission to use pictures in books, on sites, etc. This is mostly quite OK by me (and I'll even give it to you in high res. if req) but please ask before you swipe anything - and give this site a plug or, even better, a link! Any site linking will of course be given one back.

I try and check everything but if you do find any mistakes please let me know - see 'contact' in the 'Site Information' menu.



		Latest News & Updates 14 May, 2008 - A tessellation of Greyhound dogs by guest artist J. Althoff 23 April, 2008 - A tessellation of butterflies by Seth 20th December, 2007 - Fish evolving? A fun cartoony tessellation by Seth. 1st January, 2008 - A brand new type of gallery: tessellations from a school's students, submitted by the schoolteacher and posted on our site as a single school's gallery. Have a look at DECTC school's tessellations. Does your school have tessellations you'd like to show in our galleries? Let us know! 20th December, 2007 - Fish evolving? A fun cartoony tessellation by Seth. 17th December, 2007 - Our first tessellation tutorial from a guest artist! See the Papercut Method by 15-year-old Rachael G. 10th December, 2007 - New Red Cross tessellation on intentionally crumpled paper by Seth. 5th November, 2007 - New tessellation art by amateur Paul Davey in our guest gallery: Cat with Fish, Fly and Lizard, Four Beaks, Mouse and Cheese, Seahorse and Fish, and Bluebird and Cat. 22nd July, 2007 - New real materials plate by Laurel Bender. 22nd July, 2007 - Guest tessellation by Coleman aged 8 - thanks Coleman. 4th June, 2007 - Highly recommended book reviewed - 'Parcelles d'infini'. Added a new tessellation - Mon Dieu - the French are tessellating! - David. 8th May, 2007 - Added a new tutorial, specifically for young students and people without computers: Easy Tessellation Lesson using Pencil and Tracing Paper. We also provide it in downloadable easy-to-share and easy-to-print JPG and Adobe Acrobat PDF versions. 2nd May, 2007 - Added two new tessellations, in comic form: "If Escher drew a Farside Cartoon" and "Escher's Cat is Hungry". 28th April, 2007 - Added a new animation, "Dancing Cats meet Godzilla". 27th April, 2007 - Added a new tessellation, "Sailboat Race". 26th April, 2007 - Added a new tessellation, "Fly Away". 26th April, 2007 - Added Real Materials 13 - Town planning with tessellations! 26th March, 2007 - Added a new tessellation, "Invisible Pink Unicorns". ~Seth 24th March, 2007 - Added "28 Birds", a basswood bas-relief carving by Phil Allin based on Escher's "Sun and Moon" 22nd March, 2007 - Added a new digital tessellation to my gallery: "Infinite Politeness", showing uncounted tuxedo-clad men bowing to one another. ~Seth 12th March, 2007 - Added four new woodcarvings to our Real Materials gallery: Three tributes to Escher by guest-artist Phil Allin (1, 2, 3) and one original piece by Seth. 13th February, 2007 - Added a new animation-- a short film, this time-- to our animation gallery. This is a film of one of Seth's goldfish tessellation balls, showing the various Al Hirschfeld-style cartoon faces. See it here. 30th January, 2007 - Added a new tessellation to Seth's gallery (Lions Circled) and a new Flash animation (Lions) to our rapidly growing animations area. 27th January, 2007 - Begun Guest Gallery 3 with a contribution from Sara Kelly - see Galleries above 9th January, 2007 - A review of a popular, free tessellation program, Kali 5.2 for Windows95 12th December, 2006 - A new review of an old, popular standalone tessellation program, TesselMania 18th November, 2006 - How about an aquarium with fish that tessellate? See here 14th November, 2006 - Tessellations with Lego? Yes indeed, check Real Materials here. And I've added another animation of kite flying 11th November, 2006 - This weekend I've made a new animation, Dancers. ~Seth 8th November, 2006 - I've also done a new animation, Crebain Spies, remember the crow-like creatures who spied on the members of the Fellowship of the Ring? And there are two new tessellations in my art gallery 7 ~David 8th November, 2006 - In addition to asking you to contribute your art to our guest galleries, we encourage child and adult artists to enter World of Escher's free tessellation contest. This popular Internet contest has been held every six months for over a decade. Entering costs nothing; prizes vary, but are always from World of Escher's online store. More importantly, entries are displayed in a high-profile contest gallery for six months, during which time everyone is invited to visit the site, vote for a favorite, and leave positive comments for favorite entries. The top few entries apear in a permanent hall of fame. Entries should be in the form of emailed JPG files less than 100 kilobytes, and must be accompanied by a simple entry form. Entries can be made by computer or by hand, but must be original designs and be the work of the contestant whose name appears on the form. Although in the past the majority of past contestants and winners has been schoolchildren, World of Escher tells us that adult entries are increasing; if more than 15 adults enter the coming competition(s), then World of Escher will create separate divisions (and awards) for children and adults. ~Seth 7th November, 2006 - I've created a new animation, 'ducks', for our animation gallery. In addition, we welcome 'Devil Ducks', an original tessellation done in plaster, to our real materials gallery. Many thanks to guest artist R. S. Newall of New Zealand for contributing a photo of 'Devil Ducks' to our site. ~Seth 25th October, 2006 - Our 3rd birthday is on 30th October! To celebrate, David has given the site a shakeup and, even better, Seth has agreed to become joint owner/editor/manager 8-). This means changing the 'My Gallery' references throughout the site to 'David's and changing Seth's status from guest artist. Major changes are the new 'Software' section in the main menu, and the fledgling 'Animation' section under Galleries. Tessellation software will be reviewed and tested and opinions given. To begin with it contains 3 programs with several examples from each. Purpose software has been removed from the DIY section. There is only one animation at present but it will grow! David has also started gallery 7! 10th October, 2006 - 1 new tessellation ("4-and-twenty blackbirds") in Guest Artist Sethness Gallery 3 25th September, 2006 - 3 new tessellations in 'My Gallery 6' 5th September, 2006 - A few minor updates and improvements. Where's those promised contributions for the guest galleries? Latest stats - we're serving up over 8K pages per day. The site has had 44 million accesses since we began in Oct 2003. 7th May, 2006 - Added another contribution to 'Guest Gallery 2' - thanks CraftLord 7th March, 2006 - Added another contribution to 'Guest Gallery 2' and started 'Sethness Gallery 3'. 18th February, 2006 - Added 3 more contributions to 'Guest Gallery 2. Thank you. Sethness has designed a tessellations colouring book for kids. Details and sample pages in 'Galleries - Guest Artist - Sethness' from orange menu bar. 7th February, 2006 - Added a tessellation of mine to 'My Gallery 6' and a contribution to 'Guest Gallery 2' - thank you, Gary. Also added 4 new tessellations to guest artist 'Sethness Gallery 2'. 21 January, 2006 - Added a Sethness tessellation ball to 'Real Materials' gallery. A few minor adjustments elsewhere. 21 December, 2005 - Added 2 more tessellations to 'My Gallery 6' 12 December, 2005 - Tessellations.org is pleased to welcome Sethness as Guest Artist. You can see his innovative drawings and pictures from the orange 'Galleries' menu above. 19th November, 2005 - 2 new guest submissions in the Guest Galleries - thank you Heather and Houston. Also added some fractal lobsters in My Gallery 6. 31st October, 2005 - We have had a 2nd birthday - see here. Also another tessellation added to My Gallery 6 12th September, 2005 - A new painted ball in Galleries - Real Materials. 3rd August, 2005 - 2 new tessellations in the new Guest Gallery no.2 - thank you for contributing Nicole and Abbey. 1 new tessellation in My Gallery 6. 25th June, 2005 - Thanks to the inspiration of the wonderful wall-hanging sewn by Lesley Hendricks, I have started a new section called 'Real Materials' - see under 'Galleries'. Here I hope to show off tessellations designed as actual quilts, carvings and anything else that can be held! If you have made anything like this, please send a photo for inclusion here. 15th June, 2005 - 2 new tessellations in my gallery 5 and start of my gallery 6. 6th June, 2005 - New tessellation in guest gallery from Hallie McGee age 9 - youngest contributor so far!! Come on you kids - more wanted! See your name on the Tessellations site. 24th May, 2005 - New tessellation in my gallery 5. 19th April, 2005 - New tessellations in my gallery 5 and Guest gallery. 30th March, 2005 - New tessellation in my gallery 5. 12th February, 2005 - Teachers - I have removed the tessellation of a nude woman! It was completely innocuous but when I put her in, I did not realise how popular the site would become with teachers of young children. It is now indexed by many junior librarians. 2nd February, 2005 - I have added another section to the 'Do It Yourself' menu to answer some 'Frequently Asked Questions'. The first ones deal with flipping and periodicy. There are more good contributions to the guest gallery too. 26th January, 2005 - At last someone has sent me a new tessellation for the guest gallery - thanks Pete. 26th December, 2004 - Added 1 more tessellations to My Gallery 5. 17th December, 2004 - Added another tessellation to My Gallery 5. Shame on you many teachers who promised your pupil's efforts for the guest gallery - NONE received. Perhaps your teaching is not as good as you thought it was! 11th June, 2004 - Added 2 more tessellations to My Gallery 5 and a "Desert Scene" to My Nice but not True gallery. 21st May, 2004 - Began My Gallery 5 with 2 new tessellations. Many of you promised to send in your tessellations for the guest gallery but few have. Perhaps my explanations were not as good as I thought and you keep telling me?? 29th April, 2004 - My Gallery 4 is now full. Many schools are looking at the site and are very welcome but, because the guestbook is open to all, I'm afraid it's getting some 'silly' messages from some of the less well educated pupils 8-( I'm removing these as soon as I find them and I'm sorry if you see one before I've clobbered it! 5th April, 2004 - Added 3 more tessellations to My Gallery 4. 13th March, 2004 - Added more to My Gallery 4. I'm amazed at how popular this site has become - almost 2 million accesses since it started! Perhaps I'm doing something right 8-) Thanks everybody - but the Guest Gallery could do with some more pictures! 21st February, 2004 - Added this page. Added new DIY section - Multiple Motifs. Added example of this, 'Siameses', to 'My Gallery 4'. Brought index of pages up to date. 15th February, 2004 - Yahoo chose this site as a 'Pick of the Day' - thanks! Able to welcome many new visitors and read their comments in my guestbook. Thank you to all who filled it in (only a fraction of those who came though). I am now eagerly awaiting their contributions to my guest's gallery which is still very bare in spite of new bear 8-) Since the site opened in October 2003, several people have asked for permission to use pictures in books, on sites, etc. This is mostly quite OK by me (and I'll even give it to you in high res. if req) but please ask before you swipe anything - and give this site a plug or, even better, a link! Any site linking will of course be given one back. I try and check everything but if you do find any mistakes please let me know - see 'contact' in the 'Site Information' menu.