Yoshiaki Araki
Tessellation is one of the best ways to illustrate mathematical
natures of the shapes/spaces by repeating the congruent figures along
them.
I have been pursuing tessellation design of shapes/spaces to attract
wide range of audiences with recognizable figures familiar to them
such as animals.
My recent interest is to apply tessellation design to newly discovered
shapes/spaces because they are hardly incomprehensible to audiences
outside the speciality in most cases.
This is one of structures built with tessellation pieces designed
for a kids workshop on chemistry.
Carbon sp2 network is printed on the one side of the pieces for
chemists, and the tessellation work of parrots is for kids on the
other side.
Through the workshop kids can experience the basic concept of
bottom-up synthesis of nano carbon structure with negative
curvature.
The surface consists of congruent regular triangles and the
discrete curvatures at the vertices of the surface are designed to
be either a negative value, -Pi/3, or zero.