tessella - the Scientia Review

Case Study: Nikolas Schiller
Nickolas Schiller is an artist who uses digital maps as his medium. While attending
George Washington University, Schiller created a blog that showcased
his modified maps. Using existing digital photographs, Schiller creates imaginary
maps that contain tessellations and other types of mathematically inspired
designs. His tessellated works take their inspiration from Arab mosaics such as
Great Mosque in southern Spain. Many of his images are of government buildings
from the area around Washington D.C. The two images below are composed
of repeated images of the state house in Madison, Wisconsin and the
downtown of Montpelier.
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