tessellating animation
July 8, 2003 5:31 AM Subscribe
wow, those are great! Like M.C. Escher, but more colorful. Anyone has some info on how he/she does this ? The explanation on the site is not really useful
posted by swordfishtrombones at 6:31 AM on July 8, 2003
posted by swordfishtrombones at 6:31 AM on July 8, 2003
thats mindblowing. Reminds me of insanity (thousands of tesselated birds in rows singing, doing the Hail Caesar, then morphinh into Mr. T who says "didn't wanna be a mean guy! wann'ed to be a dancer!")
posted by ac at 6:33 AM on July 8, 2003
posted by ac at 6:33 AM on July 8, 2003
also I just wanna say this is a perfect example of what a good mefi post should be. not some celebrity dying or quadruple post about Google and whatnot. thanks crunch.
posted by ac at 6:43 AM on July 8, 2003
posted by ac at 6:43 AM on July 8, 2003
Alms, thank you very, very much.
And [this is great!]
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:39 AM on July 8, 2003
And [this is great!]
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:39 AM on July 8, 2003
Very cool. It reminds me of Penrose tiles, a pair of shapes that only tile aperiodically -- if you tiled an infinite plane with them, you'd never be able to find the rectangular* region that repeats itself to make up the pattern, because there isn't one.
Me, someday I want to build a house, and I want to have the kitchen or a porch or something tiled with Penrose tiles; maybe one of the mandala-looking tesselations. Then my kitchen (or whatever) will be at the center of an infinite, nonrepeating universe.
*parallelogram-ular? I can never remember
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:43 AM on July 8, 2003
Me, someday I want to build a house, and I want to have the kitchen or a porch or something tiled with Penrose tiles; maybe one of the mandala-looking tesselations. Then my kitchen (or whatever) will be at the center of an infinite, nonrepeating universe.
*parallelogram-ular? I can never remember
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:43 AM on July 8, 2003
Great post. The actual tesselations are mostly a little more crude in concept than Escher's (but then, whose wouldn't be?) but most make up for that in the way they're animated. I especially enjoy swimming with sharks.
posted by soyjoy at 7:45 AM on July 8, 2003
posted by soyjoy at 7:45 AM on July 8, 2003
crunchland, you are a prince among men!
Some of the jigsaw puzzles here are fun. I'm still working on the "8 Cats"...
posted by taz at 10:51 AM on July 8, 2003
Some of the jigsaw puzzles here are fun. I'm still working on the "8 Cats"...
posted by taz at 10:51 AM on July 8, 2003
Very cool!
Yeah, and I have an AOL account as well, wanna make something of it?
posted by inpHilltr8r at 3:37 PM on July 8, 2003
Yeah, and I have an AOL account as well, wanna make something of it?
posted by inpHilltr8r at 3:37 PM on July 8, 2003
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god those are good. Bye bye afternoon... ;)
posted by twine42 at 5:54 AM on July 8, 2003