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Math: Gr. 10/Course 11: Escher Prints

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Totally Tessellated
http://library.thinkquest.org/16661/?tqskip=1&tqskip1=1&tqtime=0203
A superbly well-done site on tessellations. Winner in the ThinkQuest'98 competition. Features over 100 dynamic pages with quality illustrations, photographs, and links. Main topics: History of Tessellations, Essentials, Mosaics/Tilings, Escher, and Beyond. Background Information has links to polygons and angles, symmetry and transformations, regular polygons, plus links to a simple introduction to tessellations and to the effect of color usage on tessellated designs. Regular Tessellations contains links to real examples.

From the Math Forum:

Tessellations
http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/maths/tessel.htm
This site contains links to tessellations used in mathematics, art and design.

Mathematical Classification of Tessellations http://library.thinkquest.org/11750/eschpage/MathClass1.html
This site looks at the math shapes that Escher used and an explanation of Escher's use of symmetry in his art.

Alex Bateman's Origami Page
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/agb/Origami/origami.html
Information, galleries and a program on making origami tessellations.

The Official WebOOG Home Page
http://www.mcmprod.com/applets/weboog/weboog2.htm
OOG, The Object Orientation Game, involves tiling puzzle games of Tangrams, Pentominoes, Hexagons and Polyominoes, which can be played at this site.

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