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Tesselations from a non-Artist
IrishRodent
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Greetings, AC, I come in peace. Moderately-durationed lurker, first time poster.
First, a little background: years ago, in one of my math courses, we were assigned a project to create an artistically pleasing tessellation. This sparked my love of M. C. Escher's artwork. As I do not by any means possess the artistic ability to mimic his other works, a few years ago I thought I'd try my hand at creating some interesting tessellated shapes. At this point, I have collected quite a number of them, and finally decided it was time to share them with an audience, instead of keeping them locked away in a folder on my hard drive.
Many of these have been updated to a dimension / resolution fitting of using as a desktop wallpaper. Here are a few of my favorites:
I apologize for the grainy *.jpg conversions (I have the originals saved as *.bmp files). In addition, since creating these is no more than a hobby, the software I have used to create them is MSPaint (groans accepted), though a handful of them were created in Gimp.
I guess what I'm looking for is some friendly critique. This is in no way related to any career path I seek for myself, and I have no intention to make any money off it either. Please let me know what you think, how you think something in this style could be improved, or any other comments you may have. If you're interested, feel free to click on my sig and see the full collection. Also, any insights into a medium through which to share desktop wallpapers (once I've cleaned these up somehow) would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
First, a little background: years ago, in one of my math courses, we were assigned a project to create an artistically pleasing tessellation. This sparked my love of M. C. Escher's artwork. As I do not by any means possess the artistic ability to mimic his other works, a few years ago I thought I'd try my hand at creating some interesting tessellated shapes. At this point, I have collected quite a number of them, and finally decided it was time to share them with an audience, instead of keeping them locked away in a folder on my hard drive.
Many of these have been updated to a dimension / resolution fitting of using as a desktop wallpaper. Here are a few of my favorites:
I apologize for the grainy *.jpg conversions (I have the originals saved as *.bmp files). In addition, since creating these is no more than a hobby, the software I have used to create them is MSPaint (groans accepted), though a handful of them were created in Gimp.
I guess what I'm looking for is some friendly critique. This is in no way related to any career path I seek for myself, and I have no intention to make any money off it either. Please let me know what you think, how you think something in this style could be improved, or any other comments you may have. If you're interested, feel free to click on my sig and see the full collection. Also, any insights into a medium through which to share desktop wallpapers (once I've cleaned these up somehow) would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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i would really like to see some less dissonant color combos
that's what i think really makes a Tessellation pop to me
so for example, the middle one is very hard to look at, it sort of burns the eyes because of the color combos you've used
(how on earth did you stare at that for so long?)
if you don't know much about color theory and aren't that interested in getting into the nitty gritty of color (though it's actually really interesting i think... and worth the read for anyone who wants to do anything visual)
you should check out kuler.adobe.com
it's a website that you can use to generate color schemes, and has some user rated schemes that you can download and use
cause your patterns are very nice, it's the colors that are killing my brain haha
I will take a look at that site and see if I can't use the info to improve some of the previous ones and make them a bit less painful. I am a huge fan of blues and greens, but I try not to use them together too much for fear of the crisp shape definition becoming vague. Sometimes, contrast is good, but ultimately, I need to figure out how to showcase contrast well instead of creating an "oh god, my eyes" effect.
color is a very amazing thing
it can do crazy things to your brain. if you ever feel so inclined, look up color illusions
they'll mess with you