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Published: 2012-04-03 18:34:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 3644; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 61
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My new and improved version of an old tessellation I had done. It is a Heesch Type 22 CCGG, otherwise known as a Double Glide. In Heesch terminology, there are 2 C(Center Pt Rotation) and 2 G(Glide Reflection) movements. Starting from a square tile, a C movement divides one side in half, with alterations in one half being mirrored in the other. The two instances here are 1) From the tip of the highest ear to the nose, and 2) from the nose to the front of the front foot. A G movement takes alterations to an entire side and mirrors them on an adjacent side. Most obvious here are the relationships btw the ears and hind legs and btw the tail and the negative space btw the front and hind legs.Related content
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Thank you very much! The only part that now bugs me is the area where it comes to a point where the nose and the hind leg meet. I probably could have rounded that out by changing the shape of the ear. Oh well, I'm not changing anything.
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I wold like to be able to purchase this in a poster size for a school program. Possible?
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Certainly possible! The original file was done in Illustrator, so I can make it just about any size you need, with as many rabbits as you need. You can contact me at agony@optonline.net if you would like.
-Kurt
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Charming. I'd love to cross-post this on my website's guest-artist gallery, with your permission & your watermark....? Tessellations.org
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Sure! (Now that I'm unemployed- I mean, working strictly freelance- I need all the exposure I can get!)
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LOL, unemployed = freelance.
I'll put it up on tessellations dot org, with a link back to your dA gallery (and another website/blog, if you have one / would like the traffic).
Gimme a few weeks to get it done, 'cuz I'm up to my eyebrows in doing end-of-the-schoolyear classes' galleries atm.
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I like it: it's always refreshing to see a tessellation that's (a) a relatively naturalistic shape of motif, (b) not just a weeny alteration from something Escher had already done, and (c) shaded so that adjacent motifs are clear to distinguish from one another. You've got all that here. Escher, in later years, might cavil that some of the rabbits are upside down (ie that he would prefer to use a symmetry type like this only for figures that look naturalistic in any rotation - hence all the overhead views of crabs and bugs and lizards), but I'd let that go because it's a bloody good motif. And because I've been guilty of the same thing myself :^)
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I try to abide by Escher's guidelines(at least the ones he spoke of in Escher on Escher), but I missed on the one about the upside down animals in profile. Thanks for the in-depth comment, dtw42!
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