Tessellations

Part I of Essay
Escher was an artist, but not your everyday typical type of artist. He wasn't a no Monet, the famous artist working with watercolors and painting flowers. Better yet he was no Michelangelo, studying the human body and sculpting beautiful images of the human. He was trained ....

Part II of Essay
.... is a science with the repeating arrangements of identical objects as found in nature, sound familiar? Of course! This is very similar to the definition of tessellation. Interestingly, the discoveries made with x-ray crystallography during the mid-20th century are similar to many of the discoveries the artist M. C. Escher made while designing for his tessellated artwork. Several other scientific studies have been found for tessellations. For an example, tiling research has helped the usage of material and reduced the use of scrap me ....