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#Making tessellations how to#
#Making tessellations install#
#Making tessellations software#
#Making tessellations free#

I used the mouse to move the corners and add new corners to the starting "tile" (the hexagon in screenshot 1).Ĭlick on the center button, "Tessellate", to see your single "tile" reproduced in three colors all over the page. This is what the screen looks like when you start. Like the Chinese food served in American restaurants, it's entertaining but half an hour afterward you'll be wanting something more substantial. How do we rate this program? It's intuitive & easy to start creating immediately,īut lacks almost every basic drawing tool, editing and file-saving feature, & advanced tessellation feature.

#Making tessellations how to#

The help menu is nonexistent, although there's a very nice picture-filled tutorial about how to make a screenshot of your work to edit or save in another program such as Windows' "Paint". There is no "undo" button except "reset", but "reset" brings you all the way back to a fresh beginning. You cannot even make curved lines, although you can "break" an existing line into joined straight segments (essentially creating a new corner). In this way you can add new corners, move the whole tile, drag corners around the page, and drag the entire tile around the page.Īll lines are black, and there is no way to adjust the line width or its color, nor to draw interior lines like eyes, mouth, fish scales, fur, and so on. You click on the "edit edges" or "edit corner" buttons on the right side of the screen, then click-and-drag the outline of your tile with your mouse. You start with one of three basic "tile" shapes: square, triangle, or hexagon.

#Making tessellations software#

That makes this software easy to learn, yes, but after using it once or thrice you may wish for more. How to make tessellations: Draw two lines from corner to corner with the starting points of both lines in the same corner. If that doesn't work, then perhaps you need to adjust the security level for your Internet browsing, or tell your web browser (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera) to turn on "scripting languages" like JavaScript, Java, and Flash. If installing Java doesn't make this run, then you might need to shut off your web browser and restart it.

#Making tessellations install#

It's like Flash or JavaScript.) You can find and install it at.

#Making tessellations free#

(Java is a free engine that makes other programs work. This is particularly true if you see a small jigsaw puzzle piece and the words "plugin required". If you don't see a screen like the one pictured on the right side of my page, then perhaps you need to install Java. No installation is necessary, beyond having a functional web browser, Internet connection, and Java. Just click on this link to their web page. Page which gives us an amaaaazing one hundred and eleven activities, student evaluation tools, and lesson plans for "tessellation". This tessellation engine and their search what a treasure chest it is!įor us, 's main pages of interest are It has lesson plans, activity plans, teaching tools.

How to Make an Asian Chop (stone stamp)įree easy-to-use online Java-based program.Īlso available on a CD, if you donate to Shodor.

You can find the invention tessellation resource here. I had so much fun creating artistic tessellations with my kids that I created a simple “I” tessellation research project for inventions! A list of 50+ inventions is included that students can research and report on in a fun way. If there are vertices of odd numbers, three colors are needed. If all adjacent vertices are of even numbers, two colors are sufficient.

All isohedral tessellations can be coloured with a minimum of two or three colors. Reflection or Mirror Tessellation Use a Collaborative Tessellation for a Research Project The 35 types of tessellations will be represented by 35 birds. There are some videos for making rotational and mirror tessellations on YouTube once your students have mastered the simpler translation tessellation:

square piece of paper (a small sticky note works well).

You can also create complex tessellations by combining multiple operations. Rotation tessellations are accomplished by (you guessed it!) rotating the tessellated shape. This is the type of tessellation you can make easily with a sticky note (as shown below). Translation can be thought of as sliding the shape along a plane. They can be made by positioning the same shape with one of these three operations: Tessellations are patterns resulting from arranging, or tiling, shapes without any gaps. Certain basic shapes can be easily tessellated:Ĭombination shapes, complicated shapes, and animals such as the ones found on these sites are also examples to print and color: Tessellations are a fun, hands-on way to explore STEAM, whether you are in art class, math class, or in a STEM or STEAM classroom.