Jun Hu, Loe Feijs , Feng Wang (teachers), Ardjoen Mangre, Matthijs Willems, Hanna Zoon (students)

Professors + students
Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven

The art works proposed are examples of results of a yearly workshop for industrial design students at TU/e. The workshop serves to teach mathematical principles to design students. The students defined tessellations in turtle graphics using the new Oogway library for Processing and the classical tessellation theory of Heesch and Kienzle. Oogway is a happy marriage of turtle graphics and splines. But we do not stop at a digital representation of their tessellation design, we continue to cut their tessellations in perspex, wood, felt, adhesive plastic, felt and so on (using vector graphics output from Oogway). It moves the abstract concepts of math into the real world, so that the students can experience them directly, which provides a tremendous reward to the students. Before designing their own tessellations, the students got lessons on group theory, golden ratio and splines, next to inspirational lectures about Escher, fractals and Chinese symbiosis art.

Ancient dragon fish by Matthijs Willems
Ancient dragon fish by Matthijs Willems
80 x 40 x 1 cm
Laser cut wood
2012

Heesch type CG1CG2G1G2.

Rhinoceroses by Ardjoen Mangre
Rhinoceroses by Ardjoen Mangre
52 x 37 x 1cm
Laser cut wood
2012

Heesch type TGTG.

Bird Rosettas by Hanna Zoon
Bird Rosettas by Hanna Zoon
35 x 35 x 1cm
Laser cut wood
2012

Heesch type CCC.