Escher - Tesselations

Old program I wrote years ago for a computational geometry class at Carleton University. It displays many types of tesselations and constantly distorts them while maintaining the tesselation property. Two versions are shown here. The first shows each of the types of tesselations one after the other - some may look a lot like others but each is a fundamentally different type of tiling. The second version only has one type of tesselation, but it distorts it more severely and changes the colors as it goes. The choppiness of the video is due to the video capture software.

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Entertainment

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• Escher
• tesselation
• tiling

[kjlg74]

Thanks

[FHomeBrew]

pov-ray is software to render stuff in 3D. It's very mathematical and text only, so it's not "what you see is what you get". From script, it makes an image. I like it very much, it's free and it's open source. Go look for it if you're into math and graphics software.

I think it's something you either love or hate without much gray in between.

[kjlg74]

What's a pov-ray?

[FHomeBrew]

I think I'll go and recreate something like this, so I can use it in pov-ray. Meybe a 3D version.

[kjlg74]

Yep, a few that I haven't looked at in ages.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

I''m guessing that you've been looking through your old programs :P