from: tessellations.org I like tessellations in general, but I thought this one was particularly eye-catching because it draws the eye up or down the two "roads"; in it's overall composition, it doesn't completely follow the usual form of being in a traditional shape, like a square, circle, or even diamond shape.
I appreciate that you like this picture, but you have not yet fully appreciated the COPYRIGHT STATEMENT in its upper left-hand corner. It reads (c) 2005 and then my email address and website name.
ReplyDeleteIt's there for a reason. I retain copyright control-- it's not permitted for people to simply take my artwork and remove it from my website without prior permission. Basically, it's like coming into my living room and going home with my lamp. I appreciate that you like my lamp, but leave it where it is or ASK FIRST. In the meantime, stop showing my art on your webpage. I hate to sound like a meanie, but... dude, y'should've ASKED FIRST. 'S'what copyright means.
There's an interesting story behind this particular tessellation: I did it while in a Japanese jail for 4 months. The jail's rules required that all "blank" paper must be "ruled" (no pun intended) horizontally (Western style) or vertically (Japanese/Chinese style). The lines show through even though I drew on the OTHER side of the paper. I assume the lines prevent the paper from being used to create forgeries of official-looking documents...? Removing the lines in digital clean-up was murder.
ReplyDeleteAlso, we were only allowed one pen or pencil per cell, when it was double occupancy (I suppose to prevent "swordfighting" ???) and a limit of two pens or pencils while in solitary. I did this one in solitary, which means I had to repeatedly switch out a black ballpoint pen, and a blue-on-one-side, red-on-the-other-side accountant's pencil. Strangely, yellow was not allowed-- I guess to prevent inmates from having all three primary colors & therefore being unable to make any color they please, a needful thing if one's going to forge documents. Or, perhaps yellow is difficult to see, so guards want any writing to be easily seen (to prevent secret messages from being circulated)...?
In general, making tessellations in jail was HARD. Notice that I didn't mention regular (erasable) pencils. Everything was done once-and-be-done-with-it, or scratched off the paper with a sharpish instrument....which is a hard thing to come by, in jail.
If you look at my site, you'll see several other tessellations that were done during the jail period: "Go" (Japanese "Othello"), snakes-and-boxes, and the lions-in-a-circle (black and white, not the one with alligators around the edges). See if you can spot the ruled lines showing through-- I wasn't able to remove all of them via Photoshop.