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Escher Symmetry

You’ve probably seen and admired some of the work of the amazing artist M.C. Escher. Whilst visiting the Alhambra Palace in Grenada, Spain, he became inspired by all the beautiful and ornate tiling patterns that filled the different rooms. He started studying these tiling patterns and the hidden mathematics behind them and this gave rise to a new direction and style in his drawings. You are going to study some of his...


Tags: 2D geometry; tessellations; symmetry; escher; rotation; reflection; translation; investigation; dynamic geometry; ICT;

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