LINKS
Cordon Art - M.C. Escher's main official site
David Bard - Refreshing site with tessellations used mainly pictorially. Bright and innovative.
Hop David - Various tessellating tiles. Hop has another site which has paintings based on tessellations.
Also included are animating patterns depicting the 17 symmetry groups and unusual Escher stuff, etc
Intriguing Tessellations - Marjorie Rice, discoverer of several previously unknown tessellating pentagons.
Jim McNeill's Tessellations - Fun colorful tessellations from Jim M of Arizona.
Jo Edkins - Bright tessellation site with interactive on-screen programs for making your own simple designs and mosaics.
Math-Salamanders.com has
free printable worksheets for primary school math, including tessellation worksheets here and here.
Jos Leys - Jos is an Ultra Fractal expert but there are wonderful tessellations and other delights here too!
Ozzigami - Australian Bruce Bilney's slightly tongue-in-cheek site. Some nice tessellations, some animated too! Worth a visit. (Note: Math teachers and parents in search of stocking-stuffers, this site also includes paper polyhedra models, et cetera) Interesting fellow to talk to about what is copyrightable art and design. His designs have..."appeared" in many prominent places, without proper citation or payment.
Peter van Rooij - Interesting tessellations and approach from a different angle. Peter is still developing this site. Worth a look.
Geometric Arts, Ghee Beom Kim - Only a few tessellations but many other wonderful graphics. (Inspired 'My Gallery 6' pictures '3D' and 'more 3D')
SuperTeacherWorksheets.com gives free worksheets for students, with graphic art examples of Rotation, Translation, and Reflection (Turn, Slide, and Flip) symmetry types.
MathForum.org has a good stockpile of tutorials and school teachers' tessellation resources. Check out this page by a teacher and class in Hawaii, for example.
NGfL CYMRU GCaD is the name of the Welsh/English website with this tessellation tutorial, with downloadable free lessons and teaching materials, for teachers and students. Warning: if you're not careful with your clicking, you may drop into the Welsh version of these same pages. If the text on your screen uses ABCs but every word looks like your cat's napping on your keyboard, you're on the Welsh pages. Look for a link back to the English version, or grab a thick dictionary.
Software used to make Tessellations
Pedagoguery Software - Tess, software for tessellation design (see Software menu)
Stephen Vincent - Tessella, software for tessellation design using Illustrator (see Software menu)
A free online tessellation creator, easy to use. This only uses polygons, from triangles, squares, and pentagons up to 12-sided polygons, so.. no Escher style tessellations, but you can tessellate the Islamic/Geometric/abstract way. Thank you, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Be sure to check out their 106 activities and hundreds of pre-K to 12th grade lesson plans.
Artlandia - SymmetryWorks, software for tessellation design using Illustrator (see Software menu)
Parcelles d'infini.free.fr/ Alain Nicolas' website promoting his new book, "Parcelles d'infini - Promenade au jardin d'Escher", a French language book for children and adults about how to make original tessellations with paper and pencil.
TOPics.org.uk - Tessellations.org sister site - dealing with computer generated graphics
The Puzzle Museum - The worlds biggest collection of mechanical and other puzzles
Surfprint - Design and order your own stationery on line - UK only.
SpoonFlower.com - Design your own fabric. At SpoonFabric.com, you can buy your creation, and offer it for sale to the public if you care to, and enter in one of their many free weekly contests. Those free weekly contests often feature tessellation and kids' themes, but pretty much always favor and allow tessellation patterns no matter what the theme. Schoolteachers and students whose works appear in Tessellations.org's galleries, consider entering these fabric pattern contests too!
LINKS TO FRIENDS
Friends, Students, and Favorite sites
My talented students, who have learned how to make websites of their own, complete with proper SEO and photoshopping:
