EXPLAINATIONS of MY TESSELLATION

These are the steps that involved in creating my Eschers art in altering. This kind of tessellation is simple as it is based on the shape of a square. This tessellation will involve the use of multiple round shapes that are the same in the matter of size to create the edges, the apex and as well as the tail for the basic structure.

1) First, draw a square and mark each edge with A, B, C and D with a middle line

labelled e and f.

2) Then, construct a midpoint labelled g (midpoint of ef) and h (midpoint of DC).

Then, draw a line connecting the point g-h.

3) To create a sting-ray-like structure, remove line connecting fC, eD, Dh and hC.

4) Then, construct 8 similar sizes of squares labelled 1 to 8. Remove the edges of

A, B, f, e and g.

5) Then, join together Square 1 (S1) with S2 and place them at the point parallel

with the point g in the middle of the line AB. S3 at the removed As edge, S4 at Bs edge, S5 at fs edge, S6 at es edge. S7 and S8 are joined together and placed at gs removed junction area.

6) Then, removed some of the areas from the squares used as shown on the

diagram below.

7) All the remaining labels are removed and one should have a better picture of a sting-ray-like structure where the head and the tail are clearly visible and distinguish.

8) This tessellation is simple as it uses only simple translation. One image is

translated side by side, and then another translation is added and located in the middle area of the first 2 images tail structure. These translated structures are complement with each other.

Shape

Shape

3D Structure

Small Stellated Dodecahedron

This structure shares its vertices with the great icosahedron, and with the uniform compounds of 6 or 12 the great pentagonal prisms. This polyhedron is the truncation of dodecahedron. The truncated small stellated

dodecahedron looks like a dodecahedron on the surface, but it has 24 faces: 12 pentagons from the truncated vertices and 12 overlapping as (truncated pentagrams). In geometry, the small stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron. This is one of the four nonconvexregular polyhedra which is composed of 12 pentagrammic faces, with five pentagrams meeting at each vertex. It shares the same vertex arrangement as the convex regular icosahedron. It also shares the same edge arrangement as the great icosahedron. It is considered the first of three stellations of the dodecahedron. If the pentagrammic faces are considered as 5 triangular faces, it shares the same surface topology as the pentakis dodecahedron, but with much taller isosceles triangle faces

This 3D Small stellated dodecahedras net structure can be constructed out of paper by connecting together 12 five-sided isosceles pyramids in the same manner as the pentagons in a regular dodecahedron.