Modularity in Art Library Home || Full Table of Contents ||
Suggest a Link || Library Help |Slavik Jablan, Mathematical
Institute, Belgrade| |Jablan uses the word "modularity" to refer
to the process of making art by repeating a simple block, tile,
or motif to make a more complicated design, by
symmetry/reflection and/or tessellation. This site includes a
paper on such art and its math, linked to illustrations from a
wide range of sources: Paleolithic ornaments, Roman mazes and
labyrinths, Kufic writing, Celtic key-patterns and modern Op-art
works. The author includes pictures of his "SpaceTiles",
"KnotTiles" and "OpTiles" with which you could create your own
impossible objects, knotwork designs, and Op-art works.|
|Levels:||Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), College|
|Resource Types:||Graphics, Problems/Puzzles, Articles| |Math
Topics:||Symmetry/Tessellations, Topology, Art| © 1994-2013
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