TESSELLATION DRAWING HOW TO

Hint: As with Persons 1 and 2, you will also need to rotate lines and shapes with precision. Also, you do not need to add details- just concentrate on the overall shape of the tile. Instead of translating the 'squiggly' lines, you will try rotation or glide reflection transformations. Irregular Tessellations from a Square, using Rotation or Glide Reflection (Person 4)- You will create an irregular tessellation starting with a square.

You should also be able to answer these questions: Do all pentominoes tessellate? Do all 7-pin polygons tessellate? Are there pentominoes or 7-pin polygons that require transformations other than translation in order to tessellate? Conversely, when tessellating, our draw calls are denominated in patches. With ordinary draw calls, we render primitives such as triangles, lines, or points.

TESSELLATION DRAWING HOW TO

(You do not need to create any 'squiggly' lines, but you do need to know how to create two different tessellations- one pentomino tessellation, and one 7-pin polygon tessellation). Tessellation is a form of geometry amplification: programmatically turning geometry into more geometry. Tessellations from Pentominoes and 7-Pin Polygons (Person 3)- While this seems like more work because you are researching two different types of tessellations, both of these are fairly easy to understand and create tessellations with. Last, you will have to precisely determine an exact midpoint for one of the sides of the triangle.

Go to Object->Transform ->Rotate and choose the appropriate angle (you might need to use a little math, or just 'undo' until you get it right). Hints: You will need to discover how to make an equilateral triangle in Illustrator (Google it)! You will also need to rotate lines with precision. Irregular Tessellations from a Triangle (Persons 1 and 2)- Create a tessellation using an equilateral triangle as the base.

Tessellation drawing