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Sebastien Truchet, ‘Mémoire sur les Combinaisons’ from ‘Mémoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences‘ Paris, 1704.
TEXT MODE ILLUSIONS. By Jo Edkins.
Design a tessellation online! Nice tool not only for squares but triangles, hexagons, diamonds and even a confusing Escher-style. These examples made by Hans Dieter Tuggummi. Try it out
There are many more ways of tiling. Check out wiki-wiki-wiki.
Because Tumblr needs more luxury! Via.
Federation Square (2002), a building complex in Melbourne, Australia by Charles Radin and John Conway. It features pinwheel aperiodic tiling – the first known non-periodic tilings to each have the property that their tiles appear in infinitely many orientations. Via.
Tessellations from the Alhambra, a palace and fortress complex located in Granada (Spain). It was constructed during the mid 10th century by the Berber ruler Badis ben Habus of the Kingdom of Granada in al-Andalus.