Daborah Pulles, Cheng Shiun You (students) and Loe Feijs , Jun Hu, Mathias Funk (teachers)
The art works proposed are examples of results of a yearly course
offered to industrial design master students at TU/e.
The workshop serves to teach mathematical principles to design
students. The students defined tessellations in turtle graphics using
the 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.
The sleeping guy by Cheng Shiun You is a tessellation of Heesch type TG1G2TG2G1. It is about sleeping and dreaming. The sleeping guy and the dream popping out of his head are done in different materials.
The layered bird by Daborah Pulles appears when the wing and body are combined into one art-piece. The wing is based on Heesch Type TTTT, the body on TTTTTT, which are chosen such that they are compatible.