Category Archives: Diamond Labyrinths
A Birthday Card for the 1 in 1500 of us born on 29th. February
My eccentric friend Evan Rutherford, the Professor and Potter of Green Hill, Wirksworth, newspaper boy and contrarian scourge of the Chattering Classes, informs me that he is at a loss for a present for his brother, who is celebrating his … Continue reading
The Tessellated Body – Seahorses embellish a Handbook for Medical Students
Behold the cover of the helpful Handbook for October 2015’s new students at Oxford University Medical School. Both the front and back covers are shown. This design by Ruth Mitchell employs the seahorse tessellation , Diamond Lattice Labyrinth (4,1). Should … Continue reading
Fibonacci puts the Pee in Pisa – Light Relief for the Also-wrangled
Etiam mingens mathematicae memini! As you probably know only too well, in a Fibonacci Sequence of numbers, each successive term is the sum of the two preceding terms, so all you need to do to start it off is specify … Continue reading
Lattice Labyrinth Tilings and Pavings: An Image Gallery
The thumbnailed gallery below is a handy summary of images included in the various posts of the Lattice Labyrinths blog and has now been copied as a page of the blog. In the course of time that page will tend … Continue reading
Chinese National Day Tessellation applied to Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport 国庆节深圳宝安国际机场
Diamond Lattice Labyrinth (10,1) in honour of the National Day of The People’s Republic of China is illustrated in the previous post. I would like to employ it as a paving in Shenzhen City, where my elder son lives and … Continue reading
On the Eve of 1st. October, the National Day of the People’s Republic of China 国庆节
I have been made very welcome both in the People’s Republic of China and in Hong Kong, so, still just within 30th. September British time,but already early in the morning, Chinese Time, of what I do hope will be a … Continue reading
Logistical Nightmare
Here is a tessellation I call Logistical Nightmare as it can easily be seen as a host of postmen running in three different dimensions. This is in fact Diamond (7,1) – see my book – and I don’t hope, but … Continue reading
Sample – Diamond Family
Above is a small area of Diamond (13,1) with its rather dragon-like supertiles; I seem to have cracked the construction of all (a,1) cases. I find this one particularly attractive – or is it just that the colour choice is … Continue reading
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