July 27, 2004

Escher Web Sketch [java applet] Explore the seventeen symmetry possibilities in two-dimensional space - or just move the mouse around - to create grandma's wallpaper groovy repeating patterns.
posted by outrigger 20 years ago
  • this is awesome
  • It reminds me of Deluxe Paint, a drawing software I used to twiddle with when I got my first computer, over a decade ago. It had a similar reflexion tool. Hours of fun creating patterns like this.
  • Thanks, outrigger! Great link. I'm having lots of fun with this. Maybe too much fun. This could easily become the newest in a line of links that ate my life. Hmmmmm... Oh well. Playing with it more anyway!
  • Wow cool! Does it have any practical purpose?
  • ...any practical purpose? "A thing of beauty is a joy forever..." --John Keats
  • It was soon realized however that this application was an excellent teaching tool for the illustration of basic crystallography courses.
  • I am so glad you said, that, Wolof. \As ever, ineptly and malachitely, bees
  • O small, small, SMALL! Bad beeswacky gets frustrated by geek-speak, deverves to have ass kicked. apologies:sorry. Will try not to do it agin. Loves tweh lovely geek-spee=ak words.
  • Woo. Such prettiness...
  • Love this link! I'm creating a bee tessellation, just for beeswacky.
  • This is pretty impressive stuff. Wish I'd coded it.