More Information About Tessellations
The following list presents an eclectic group of resources on various aspects of tessellations. These range from general background works to examples and installations of tilings.
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Beyer, Jinny. Designing Tessellations: The Secrets of Interlocking Patterns. Lincolnwood, Ill.; St. Albans: Quilt Digest ; Verulam, 1999. WorldCat permalink: https://worldcat.org/en/title/473422657
Bohannon, John. “Quasi-Crystal Conundrum Opens a Tiling Can of Worms.” Science 315, no. 5815 (February 23, 2007): 1066–1066. doi: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.315.5815.1066
Frettlöh, Dirk and Edmund Harriss. “Tilings Encyclopedia.” Accessed March 18, 2017. http://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/
Huffmann, Daniel. “Penrose Binning.” Somethingaboutmaps, April 30, 2015. https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/penrose-binning/
Lu, Peter J., and Paul J. Steinhardt. “Decagonal and Quasi-Crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture.” Science 315, no. 5815 (February 23, 2007): 1106–10. doi: 10.1126/science.315.5815.1066
“M.C. Escher – Image Categories.” Official M.C. Esher website. https://mcescher.com/gallery/
NRICH (University of Cambridge). “Transformations and their Properties: Tessellations.” http://nrich.maths.org/1556
Penrose, Roger. RI Channel: Forbidden Crystal Symmetry in Mathematics and Architecture. Royal Institution of Great Britain video, 2014. YouTube video, 58:13 min, 16 Jan 2014. https://youtu.be/th3YMEamzmw
Rehmeyer, Julie. “Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles.” Science News, September 23, 2013. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-islamic-penrose-tiles-0
Weisstein, Eric W. “Tessellation.” http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tessellation.html
Wikipedia contributors, “Euclidean tilings by convex regular polygons,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclidean_tilings_by_convex_regular_polygons&oldid=756054436
Wikipedia contributors, “Penrose tiling,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Penrose_tiling&oldid=767819627