Maurits Cornelis Escher lived from 1898 to 1972. I take my hat (figuratively speaking since I don’t actually have a hat) off to Escher. Those dogs really look like dogs and yet they fit together perfectly. I was pretty happy there were some red dogs in there, since, as you must know by now, I’m a red dog too. But a dog tessellation it is, and possibly the first one ever made. I’m pretty sure Escher had it in a notebook or some private file, because its not done as carefully as the public work he exhibited, and parts of the red have faded since he made it, way back in 1938. Yup, thought I, there are some advantages to being a dog. But then one day the old nose got to sniffing and pretty soon sniffed out an Escher piece with dogs. There was a pretty nice one with fish he said and he showed me this one, which isn’t too well known: My dad has seen just about all the Escher art there is to see and he said there weren’t any with dogs. He did lots of tessellations where the pieces were animals, so I asked the old man if Escher ever did one with dogs. I knew about that Dutch master graphic artist named Escher. For a long time I didn’t think such a thing could exist. If it were possible to make a tessellation where each piece was a dog then you would have a dog tessellation. The figure below is a more complicated tessellation which is composed of identical 9-sided polygons but has a 3 dimensional feel, appearing a bit like two snakes wrapping around eachother:Ĭover image on Grünbaum/Shephard book: Tilings and PatternsĬlick on the above image to see it larger and, for more information, see the description at my dad’s flicker page, here. The squares on a tile floor would be one example. But we agreed on the dog part, so he had to capitulate.Ī tessellation is like a jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces have the same shape but they still fit together without any gaps. He said the best you could say is that it was dog graphics.
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