Category Archives: Honeycomb Labyrinths
Putting Australia in the Shade; A Lattice Labyrinth employed to Spectacular Effect
Out of the blue has come this message from Asher of Alchemy Decor in Australia. To quote in full: I make complex and beautiful shade structures for festivals all over Australia, taking inspiration from geometry, tilling art and all sorts … 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
Celebrating April Weddings , Two Wedding Anniversary Labyrinths, April 13th and April 26th
Back to pretty pictures, but with some of the skeletal structure of the tessellations shown. ( Scarthin Books, my some days job, is in the middle of a crowdfunding exercise to Prop up the Shop, its over a mile of … Continue reading
Double Tenth Day, 國慶日/雙十節 , National Day of Taiwan, celebrated by Honeycomb (10,10)
Greetings – today is 10/10/2015. here is the post I made for Taiwan last year. Where to sit at the grand Gwangbokjeol 조국해방의 날 Dinner for delegates to the Bridges 2014 Conference in Seoul? I was one of the … Continue reading
Burns Night 2015. Single Malts, Tessellated Tartans and a Hexed Honeycomb for the Bard
Aberlour, Ben Nevis, Glen Moray, Jura, The Macallan, Monkey Shoulder – where’s the Laphroaig? One in fifteen guests brought a bottle of single malt whisky to my latest decadal birthday party. And tomorrow the 25th of January is Burns Night, … Continue reading
Tessellations for the Rio 2016 Olympics Opening Ceremony, or Dribbling Practice
The 2016 Olympic Games open (or opens) in the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 5. The number pair to inspire a Lattice Labyrinth tessellation is therefore (5,8), or (8,5) the mirror image. There are several too … Continue reading
A Birthday Tessellation for Radio Derby’s tireless Jacqui White
Jacqui was so eager to be born that she chose a date, June 18th, made up not only of two EVEN numbers but of two numbers also divisible by 3, (18,6). Though the latter divisor means that a Honeycomb Lattice … Continue reading
A Birthday Labyrinth for BBC Radio Derby, Hurrarch for March 18th.
As an occasional “Loudmouth” on Sally Pepper’s BBC Radio Derby morning show, it’s time I put my tessellation where my loudmouth is, so here is a design for Sally and for everyone else born on 18th. March, Honeycomb Lattice Labyrinth … Continue reading
Repaving Red Square for Lenin’s Birthday – вновь прокладывает Красную площадь
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Владимир Ильич Ленин) seems to have been a fortunately rare example of an idealist who had the political skill to enable him to try his ideas out in practice. According to John Gray (whose oratorical skills I … Continue reading
Honeycomb Lattice Labyrinth (60,27) – The Irish Giant
Although the close relationship with Star Labyrinth(60,27) is clear (see the last post), Honeycomb (60,27) makes quite a different overall impression. A central hexagonally symmetrical supertile of the IRISH GIANT is shown, together with six fainter fellows, just to prove … Continue reading
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