Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Polygons in Art!

1.  Rotate hexagons, quadrilaterals and more to create mosaic designs.

2.  Click on Monir Shahroudy Patterns of Infinity to create designs inspired by Islamic tiles.

3.  This tool allows you to create any geometric shape imaginable. Squares, triangles, rhombus, trapezoids and hexagons can be created, colored, enlarged, shrunk, rotated, reflected, sliced, and glued together.

4.  A tessellation is a repeating pattern of polygons that covers a plane with no gaps or overlaps. What kind of tessellations can you make out of regular polygons?

5.  Learn make a tessellation in the style of artist M.C. Escher.

6.  Learn how to make a "tri-hexa-flexagon"!