Lessons Tessellations are designs that fit together with no empty spaces. This ancient form of art was popularized by M. C. Escher, who created many amazing tessellations.
Materials:
1. A small amount of heavy duty paper, like tag board. Any paper will work but the more fragile the paper the more carefully you will have to be.
2. A large sheet of paper where you will put your final design.
3. Sharp Scissors. The more detailed the design the smaller they must be.
4. Tape. Any kind of tape will work - clear cellophane tape works well.
5. A pencil or pen.
6. Crayons, colored pencils, markers, watercolors, or the coloring media.
Steps:
1. Cut a square out of the tag board. This will be your original object.
2. Select an area of this object and cut it out. DO NOT THROW AWAY THIS PIECE.
3. Tape that section on the other side of the square, at exactly the height you cut it out from. (when cutting from the top or bottom, tape at exactly the same distance in width)
4. Select another section of the square and remove it.
5. Tape it on the other side of the square at exactly the same height you cut it from. (when cutting from the top or bottom, tape at exactly the same distance in width)
6. Continue with steps 4 and 5 until you have created an object you would like to use in your final drawing.
7. Place the object on the large sheet of paper and trace it's outline.
8. Place the object next to the outline so that it aligns up perfectly with no empty spaces, and make another outline.
9. Fill up the entire sheet of paper.
10. Now you can color the design and add detail.
11. Then you're done.
It's fairly difficult to create a tessellation that resembles something in real life, like a bird or fish, but it's fairly easy to create some pretty funky designs.
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Vocabulary
PLANE
a two-dimensional, flat surface that is infinitePolygon
a simple closed shape. Polygons are named according to the number of sides and angles they contain.Triangle - quadrilateral - pentagon - hexagon - heptagon - octagon - nonagon - decagon
Transformation
a movement of a figure to a new locationFour Types of Transformations (movements)
Translation (or slide) - a transformation involving a slide of a rigid figure
Rotation - a transformation that turns a figure about a point in a plane
Reflection (or a flip) - a transformation that mirrors a figure in a plane
Glide Reflection - a transformation that moves a figure in a slide and also mirrors it.
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