Extending Escher’s Recognizable-Motif Tilings to Multiple-Solution Tilings and Fractal Tilings

Robert Fathauer

A chapter in M.C. Escher’s Legacy, 2003, pp 154-165 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Tiling of the plane is a theme with which M.C. Escher was preoccupied nearly his entire career as an artist, starting around 1920. He was particularly interested in tilings in which the individual tiles were recognizable motifs, and kept a notebook in which he enumerated over 130 examples of this type of design [9]. Many of these were incorporated in finished woodcuts or lithographs. Notable examples include Day and Night (1938), Reptiles (1943), Magic Mirror (1946), Circle Limit IV (1960), also known as “Heaven and Hell,” and the Metamorphosis prints of 1937–1968.

Keywords: Matching Rule; Finite Area; Penrose Tile; Periodic Tiling; Individual Tile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28849-X_16

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