Free Tessellation Software

How to create Tessellations using your Quilt or Graphic Software By Sharla Hicks © 2000 The Internet has a maze of information that can be very helpful for computer quilters to use in designing tessellation quilts. What I have done in this article is pulled together the best informational links I found into a logical tutorial to help you think tessellation and create tessellation quilts using your Quilting and Graphic Software programs! Table of Contents for How to Create Tessellations using your Quilt Software: FYI: the Table of Contents Links will NOT appear in the bottom frame, they are links to sections of the articles in this frame. • • • Use 'lattice tessellation' to develop tessellation quilts. • Think straight edge and compass while creating a tessellations using a triangle with a lattice on the computer. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • SymmeToy experiment with SymmeToy's tessellations abilities by using the.

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• TesselMania (no longer available for retail sale, but a crippled demo is available) • • What is a tessellation and HOW does it apply to a Quilt Design? Creating tessellations patterning with your quilt software is much less complex than you might think. I think the word 'tessellation' scares us because we think of the complex imagery of MC Escher or that forbidden word, yikes, MATH! But the bottom line is we are using these shapes everyday in our quilting designs and do not always realize we are using math and tessellation. Some of the math shapes are familiar and others like rhombus or hyperbolic we can add to our vocabulary. Remember how many of us thought algebra and geometry would never apply to us, well we were wrong, quilting is about geometry and math.

Think how impressed your friends will be the next time you tell them that the Block was designed using rhombase and hyperbolic patterns;. Now step back a minute, catch your breathe and look at the definition for tessellation and it becomes clear that most repeated designs in our quilts can be classified as a tessellation. For a clear explanation and examples to show you what I am talking about, look at What Is a Tessellation? By Suzanne Alejandre, you will see her quilt like examples!

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• Click on the following underlined link to go to the. NOTE: To open the the tutorial link in a NEW window for easier printouts, click on the next underlined link. FYI: Netscape new browser window remains the same size and cover this page. Resize the Browser Frame and you will see my tutorial behind it. Next time you think of a quilt made from triangles, squares or rectangles, think instead, ' a tessellation of squares, a tessellation of triangles, a tessellation of rectangles.' Tessellation Quilts use several principles that will aide your 'brain cells' to think tessellation when developing a computer designed quilt based in tessellation. As in all areas of learning, I believe that when you learn the vocabulary of an idea, it is yours for life.

Here is the vocabulary of tessellation for quilt makers. Start using the vocabulary listed below as you are looking at examples to help you identify and then fuse the ideas into your brain cells, then it is only a quick step to apply this information to a quilting or graphic program. Each idea will be covered in its own section of this tutorial. • THINK: 'Tessellation Lattice'. • THINK: 'Transform' a shape to add add interest to a Tessellation Quilt design.

• THINK: 'Symmetry' as it applies to Tessellation Quilts. • THINK: 'Rotation' as it applies to Tessellations. • THINK: 'Glide Reflection' as it applies to Tessellations. THINK: 'Tessellation Lattice' and about HOW it applies to the Quilt. THINK: 'Tessellation Lattice' Sound familiar? • Jump on over to a page called 'Tessellation Lattice' to find clear examples of how the outside line of the shape can be thought of as a lattice that frames the pattern/block inside. Look closely at the diagrams arrows and other strong markings to point out the not always obvious 'lattice' (outside edge of shape/block) that frames the pattern.

• Click on the following underlined link to go to NOTE: To open the the tutorial link in a NEW window for easier printouts, click on the next underlined link. FYI: Netscape new browser window remains the same size and cover this page. Resize the Browser Frame and you will see my tutorial behind it. • Suzanne Alejandre and others at the Math Forum developed for classroom settings that we can use to create quilts using tessellation patterns. • Then lets look at adding interest to the tessellation designs by adding patterning inside the lattice frame work identified above. Check out the following page for 17 excellent example of tessellated shapes for the 'lattice' frame enclosing a pattern/block --make sure as you look at the designs that you identify the 'lattice' frame in each example. • Click on the following underlined link to open in the frame below.