A tessellation created inside a box of four different mirrors. I guess I like to challenge myself, if you take into account my distaste of symmetry methods that use multiple mirrors.
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Tag Archives: iPad app for patterns
KaleidoPaint iPad App Help
A new version of KaleidoPaint has arrived. Here you will find:
- A link to the side by side comparison of the new features vs. previous
- Jeff’s List of upgrades for V3.0
- Many youtube videos about tessellations
- Skillshare classes on the different symmetry groups
- Help files on previous versions
- Drawing a tessellation in each symmetry group
Salmon tessellation
This is a lesson in wearing eye protection. Taking care of your body, your outer shell for the time you spend on this planet. I have not yet learned this lesson. But I am listening. If you’re an artist or carver and your whole life depends on your vision, please read this. Continue reading
Three dogs tessellation
A new iPad app for me, iOrnament, is not quite as versatile for me to create tessellations, or as they seem to call them, nested forms. It feels like an earlier version of KaleidoPaint, Continue reading
KaleidoPaint is now on Android!
The Android version of KaleidoPaint is finally finished and publicly available. I would like to share this spectacular and free app with the group Broug Atelier for Islamic Geometric Design.
Why tessellations?
I’m just a kid that still likes to draw. From early on, in the crib, with any available medium. Fortunately back then, oil-based wall paint was easily washable. Continue reading
Panther Tessellation — Symétruc panthère
A challenge to help my Nephew understand the basic rules of tessellations for a math class. Wish I had been fortunate enough to get an opportunity like this when I was a teen. La leçon est en français à part de ça! Continue reading
Champagne Tessellation Gallery
Which symmetry group to use?
Deciding which symmetry group to use for a specific design can be hit and miss. And try again. You can narrow it down Continue reading
Symmetry Group Pm – alternating parallel mirrors
This symmetry group is the last one for me to tackle. It has been a year since I started tessellating again, since I found the KaleidoPaint iPad app. Continue reading
Symmetry Group P6m — Perfect Snowflakes
It’s been a year last week, since I started drawing with the KaleidoPaint iPad app. I was avoiding this P6m symmetry group because of the tight space for drawing within and the abundance of mirrors. Continue reading
Symmetry Group P4g
My first ever tessellation was accomplished using this P4g symmetry group. Continue reading
Symmetry Group Pg — For all Soccer Fans
This symmetry group uses two parallel glide reflections. The glides can be either vertical or horizontal. Continue reading
Symmetry Group P4
I’ve already given you a foretaste of this P4 symmetry group with the cougar tessellation, and story, a few weeks ago. Continue reading
Cougars at Bark Echo Ranch! — Symmetry Group P4
Viewing for this month, September 2013: Two cougars! Continue reading
Tessellations by Francine Champagne 