HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF A TYPE OF TESSELLATION THAT ESCHER PRODUCED. NOTICE THAT THERE IS NO BEGINNING OR END!
THESE ARE KNOWN AS "RADIAL TESSELLATIONS" AND WE WILL MAKE OUR OWN VERSION OF eSCHER'S ......RADIAL TESSeLLATIONS
We will create an "easier" tessellation OUrs will be a repetitive shape that seems to stretch out to infinity! {examples below}
we will learn how to make a repetitive pattern via a youtube tutorial
how to do a radial tessellation follows below
step 1 for a radial tesselation .......we will need to rule our paper like the one below.....creating what looks like a diamond.
we then must fold the diamond in half along the vertical line {up & down line in the middle} draw your designs on one side of the diamond..........then go to the light box and trace them on the other side........getting a mirror image now move on to step 2
STEP 2 ...USING THE LIGHT BOX, FOLD THE PAPER OVER THE VERTICAL LINE {UP AND DOWN} AND TRACE WHAT YOU SEE ON ONE SIDE ON TO THE OTHER......TO GET A MIRROR EFFECT THIS IS CALLED SYMMETRY
STEP 3 PLACE YOUR "TEMPLATE" ON THE TABLE AND PLACE A SHEET OF TRACING PAPER OVER IT LIKE THIS. mAKE SURE THAT YOU START WITH ONE CORNER OF THE TRACING PAPER
STEP 4 TAPE IT DOWN SO NOTHING MOVES AND THE TEMPLATE IS EASIER TO SEE NOTE: FEEL FREE TO ADD IN ITEMS......NOTICE HOW 3 FLOWERS WERE ADDED HERE?
STEP 5 START COPYING OVER WHAT YOU SEE ON THE TEMPLATE ON TO THE TRACING PAPER ABOVE. THEN, MOVE THE TEMPLATE AND MATCH UP THE HALF FACES TO CONTINUE DRAWING THE DESIGN AS YOU SEE BELOW
STEP 6 CONTINUE LIFTING UP THE TAPE, AND MOVING THE TEMPLATE UNDERNEATH YOUR TRACING SHEET.......MATCHING UP THE PEOPLE! CONTINUE TO TRACE IN THE NEW AREA
STEP 7 NOTICE HOW YOUR DESIGN IS GROWING ON THE TRACING PAPER?
STEP 8 ONCE WE ARE DONE DOING THE TRACING ALL OVER THE TRACING PAPER......WE WILL COLOR IN THE SAME PATTERN FOR THE SAME PEOPLE AND OTHER THINGS ADDED {FLOWERS IN OUR EXAMPLE HERE}