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KaleidoPaint Tricks

KaleidoPaint tricks I’ve learned

Posted on 2015-06-10 by Champagne Design

I am assuming you have read all of the help files within the KaleidoPaint iPad App. It’s not very complicated. Go read it. Continue reading →

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Symmetry Group P6 Explained

Symmetry Group P6

Posted on 2015-06-10 by Champagne Design

This tessellation is laid out around a matrix of hexagons, a honeycomb. There is one 6 point rotation, one 3 point rotation and one 2 point rotation. Continue reading →

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Symmetry Group P1 Explained

Symmetry Group P1

Posted on 2015-06-10 by Champagne Design

Most simple of all symmetry systems. A translation of your design both vertically and horizontally. That’s it! Continue reading →

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Sharing Areas between tessellations, dual purpose space

Sharing areas within a tessellation — dual purpose space

Posted on 2015-06-09 by Champagne Design

It’s so nice to share with your friends! Sometimes when I am drawing, Continue reading →

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Symmetry Group P4m Explained

Symmetry Group P4m

Posted on 2015-06-09 by Champagne Design

This tessellation method uses 3 reflections in a 45/45/90 degree triangle.   Continue reading →

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Symmetry Group Pmg Explained

Symmetry Group Pmg

Posted on 2015-06-09 by Champagne Design

Are we ready for another creative brain gym session? These Pmg tessellations are built around two different glide reflections, one mirror, and two rotation points, Continue reading →

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Symmetry Group Pgg Explained

Symmetry Group Pgg

Posted on 2015-06-09 by Champagne Design

This symmetry group is one of my favourites, as it uses glides as well as rotations in its construction. No mirrors here, so the tessellated figures do not need to be bilaterally symmetric constructs. Continue reading →

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Symmetry Group P31m Explained

Symmetry Group P31m

Posted on 2015-06-09 by Champagne Design

Symmetry Group P31M can easily be confused with P3M1 which has 3 different mirror reflections. I’ve made the mistake often Continue reading →

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Symmetry Group P3m1 Explained

Symmetry Group P3m1

Posted on 2015-06-09 by Champagne Design

Images formed in a 3 mirrored equilateral triangle kaleidoscopic shape. Here as well, bilateral symmetry is at play. Three figures reflected in their 3 different mirrors, all 3 lines joining in the middle of the Continue reading →

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Symmetry Group Pmm Explained

Symmetry Group Pmm

Posted on 2015-06-04 by Champagne Design

Group Pmm is also known as P2mm in Peter S. Stevens’ Handbook of Regular Patterns. A four-sided mirrored box. Figures with bilateral symmetry work best in this type of group. Continue reading →

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My first tessellation, Frogs, ©1988

Tessellations with KaleidoPaint

Posted on 2015-06-04 by Champagne Design

My fascination with tessellations started with a book purchase. M.C.Escher. The master of tessellations. If you don’t know MC Escher drawings, Google it for images. He was quite popular with the drug-induced hippies of the sixties. Continue reading →

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