Yoshiaki Araki
Tessellation is one of the best ways to express the mathematical
nature of shapes and spaces.
I have pursued tessellation design of shapes and spaces, using
familiar shapes like animals to be seen by a wide range of people.
More recently, I have been focusing on applying tessellation to reveal
the hidden properties of the objects around us, such as puzzles and
games.
This is a special tessellation work created for an official event
celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube by Embassy of
Hungary Tokyo in 2020 (See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNCz335F_4&t=8m45s).
Each panel of the cube puzzle is placed with a lizard. A total of
54 lizards of the same shape are laid out on the surface of the
3×3×3 cube puzzle, with no gaps or overlaps between them.
The mathematics behind the lizards is based on square versatile. A
square
versatile is a shape that can be deformed from a square while
admitting for an infinity of
distinct tiling on the plane. The details can be
found in the article, Yoshiaki ARAKI, SQUARE VERSATILE
TESSELLATIONS,
Symmetry: Art and Science, 2019.