Symmetry, Tesselations, and Escher Prints

UW MATH DAY, March 23, 2009

 

Title Page

 

Creating wallpaper patterns:  FRIES  (pgg); GHOSTS (p6)

More Wallpaper (tessellations) examples

 

Four Plane symmetries

 

Escher’s symmetry prints from  M.C. Escher Official website

 

E53

 

Japanese Wallpaper patterns  

 

Alhambra symmetry patterns (controversial issue:  are all 17 patterns there?! Check for yourself when you go to Granada)

 

Samples of ALL 17 Wallpaper groups (Crystallographic groups) with names:   Birds; Geometric shapes