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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. 18
Make Your Own: The Line Method 1. First draw an equilateral triangle and draw a wavy line down one of the sides. 2. Copy this wavy line and rotate it 60 degrees. You should now have two out of the three of the sides of the tessellation drawn. 3. On the final side drawn a wavy line from one vertex to the midpoint. 4. Copy this line and rotate it 180 degrees around the midpoint. Your tessellation is com- plete. 19
Page 2 and 3: Table of Contents Geometry of Mosai
Page 4 and 5: The Earliest Mosaics The earliest k
Page 6 and 7: Medieval to Modern Mosaics This mos
Page 8 and 9: Middle Eastern Mosaics Islamic mosa
Page 10 and 11: Indirect Method The indirect method
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Page 14 and 15: Regular and Semi-Regular Tessellati
Page 16 and 17: Case Study: M. C. Escher was a Dutc
Page 20 and 21: Make Your Own: The Slice Method 1.
Page 22 and 23: About the Authors George Slavin gre

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