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 focus is to show how complex tessellation patterns are
generated by simple rules. Substitution tiling is one of the simplest
methods of tessellation, sometime with fractal boundaries.
Salamander-like creatures are accidentally generated by a
substitution tiling among three types of rhombi those angles are
30, 60 and 90 degree respectively. The image is a result of fourth
iteration starting from a rhombus with 60 degree angle.
This work is presented as a collaboration work with Asao TOKOLO at
an art exhibition, CONNECT, held during Oct 16- Dec 31, 2017 in
Tokyo.