Tessellations Websites

Resources compiled by the Math Forum.

Adobe Illustrator plug-in that automates creation of surface designs and ornaments based on seventeen wallpaper groups. On-line purchase.

Tilings of Squared Squares and Squared Rectangles, constructed using javascript.

A collection of links.

Compiled by Suzanne Alejandre for the Math Forum.

Graphics and references.

Explanations and graphics.

Examples and source code.

This chaotic tiling consists of two equilateral pentagons, with angles (80, 160, 60, 140, 100) and (40, 200, 60, 100, 140). Sets are for sale.

Artist Eleni Mylonas uses tilings.

From the article "One Corona is Enough for the Euclidean Plane" by Doris Schattschneider and Nikolai Dolbilin.

Pictures of some concrete tilings.

Graphics.

Links in the Geometry Junkyard.

Known solutions and a new recipe.

Compiled by Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College.

Software for Macintosh and SGI to create and manipulate tessellations of the sphere, Euclidean plane and hyperbolic plane, and to see how the Platonic solids are related to tessellations.

A program for drawing symmetrical patterns based on any of the 17 wallpaper groups, as well as several frieze and rosette groups.

Images and descriptions of the 17 plane symmetry groups.

Tessellation software. 11 rosette, all 7 frieze and all 17 wallpaper groups included.

Links to activities and other resources.

Java applet drawing repeated patterns with selected symmetry.

Compiled by Yoshiaki Araki.

Applying principles of computer graphics to the creation of geometric ornament, as a continuation of the tradition of ornamental design using modern tools and algorithms.

A Java applet which shows interactive wallpaper patterns.

The graphic work of Chaim Goodman-Strauss, Arkansas.

A summary of the history behind the Penrose tiling in the math department at Miami university.