Commercial doormats various sizes online order & fast delivery.

Site sells exemplary reports, papers and essays on topics in math history.

Graphics.

Adobe Illustrator plug-in that automates creation of surface designs and ornaments based on seventeen wallpaper groups. On-line purchase.

From the article "One Corona is Enough for the Euclidean Plane" by Doris Schattschneider and Nikolai Dolbilin.

This chaotic tiling consists of two equilateral pentagons, with angles (80, 160, 60, 140, 100) and (40, 200, 60, 100, 140). Sets are for sale.

Web text by Ana Kozomara.

Definitions and images.

Includes: Symmetric icons and fractals; Quilts and planar repeating patterns; Colored wallpaper patterns.

Andrew Crompton's tiling and tessellation images.

Hans Kuiper's work. Tessellations and optical art. Also tessellation software with the 17 wallpaper groups.

Escher-like tessellations.

Explanations and graphics.

Links to activities and other resources.

A program for drawing symmetrical patterns based on any of the 17 wallpaper groups, as well as several frieze and rosette groups.

A Java applet for experimenting with kites and darts.

Software for Macintosh and SGI to create and manipulate tessellations of the sphere, Euclidean plane and hyperbolic plane, and to see how the Platonic solids are related to tessellations.

Art of Kenneth Landry. Tessellations, polyhedra and polyhedra decorated with tessellations.

University of Houston. Graphics and resources in symmetry and tiling.

Links in the Geometry Junkyard.

Known solutions and a new recipe.

Artist Eleni Mylonas uses tilings.

Compiled by Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College.

Wallpaper patterns and symmetry groups.

Tilings of Squared Squares and Squared Rectangles, constructed using javascript.

Resources compiled by the Math Forum.

Chaim Goodman-Strauss, Arkansas. With interactive demos using Geometer's Sketchpad (requires Macintosh).

With interactive demos using Geometer's Sketchpad (requires Macintosh).

Tessellation software. 11 rosette, all 7 frieze and all 17 wallpaper groups included.

Pictures of some concrete tilings.

Original tessellating desktop wallpaper tiles.

Compiled by Suzanne Alejandre for the Math Forum.

Tutorials and templates for making tessellations using ClarisWorks, the Geometer's Sketchpad, HyperCard, HyperStudio, and straightedge and compass, including step-by-step instructions for classroom activities.

A study for the endless possibilities of tessellating the plane based on the work of Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher.

A company selling foam puzzles, many based on planar tessellations (tilings) and fractals.

Examples and Java applets.

Description of a class project.

Examples and source code.

Graphics and references.

A collection of links.

A summary of the history behind the Penrose tiling in the math department at Miami university.

Examples in traditional Japanese patterns.

Tiling from the mathematical and historical viewpoint by Steve Edwards. Provides a number of examples of various types of tiles that tile the plane and includes periodic tiling plus Penrose's aperiodic tiles.

Applying principles of computer graphics to the creation of geometric ornament, as a continuation of the tradition of ornamental design using modern tools and algorithms.

An introduction to tessellations explaining the basic underlying mathematics, and with many examples from real life.

Images and descriptions of the 17 plane symmetry groups.

Activities to create patterns using simple resources, such as making equilateral triangle from a circle. Suitable for upper primary and lower secondary ages.