Tag Archives: tiling
Lattice Labyrinth Tessellations for Apple’s Steve Jobs – a cryptic iPhone cover design?
So far as Apple’s logo is concerned, it can be any colour so long as it’s black, to paraphrase Henry Ford. One colour makes it difficult to shade the tiles of a tessellation, so I’ve had to borrow some other … 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
A Lattice Labyrinth for Cristián: Trefoil (29,3)
Cristian is a correspondent in Chile who helped spread the word of my abortive but world-wide 2012 campaign for an Olympic Fourth Place Medal. Cristián’s special date is 29th. March, so here, as a belated thank you, is Trefoil Lattice … Continue reading
Pythagorean Pairs of Pairs…and the Occasional Triplet of Pairs
Here are small parts of two Serpentine Lattice Labyrinth tessellations. Though these two patterns look very different and the arrays of superlattice points (which we can take to be marked by the black squares) and symmetry axes are at different … Continue reading
ELAUCTION DAY 2015 – A Tessellation for the UK National Elections 7th. May 2015.
May 7th. 2015 is Polling Day, when some of us UK electors turn out to vote for our new PARISH COUNCIL members as well as for other Local Government representatives – and, oh yes, for MP’s , national Members of Parliament, too … 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
Eine kleine Mathmusik : From Lattice Labyrinths via √-1 to Pythagorean Triples
Since starting this blog I have made a point of “following” twitter accounts maintained by passionate mathematics teachers and many have paid me the complement of following me in return. It is time I thanked them/you for this complement by … 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
Christmas Day Snowflake
Apologies for peppering you with blog posts, but here, posted on New Year’s Eve, is an even more attractive Christmas Day tessellation, Trefoil Lattice Labyrinth (25,12) in suitably icy colours. The background is Snowdon, the highest peak in Wales, seen … Continue reading
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