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Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere |
The traditional craft of quilting can be used to make many mathematical forms. While quilters have always used geometry to work out repeating patterns, some modern quilters go further in using mathematical objects as the subjects of their quilts.
Here are two impressive examples by Sarah Mylchreest and Mark Newbold.
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This painting is a tessellation, where the pattern is the solution to a visual puzzle: how to integrate squares and hexagons. This question is significant when it is understood that to me, square grids describe the "heavenly realm" or the non-physical dimensions, and hexagons represent the material world (where many natural forms like water crystals are hexagonal.) The hexagons around the border seem to "pop" into cubes because the viewer's interpretation adds another dimension. Perception of higher dimensions bridges the two forms.
It is an open question how M.C. Escher's work would have been influenced had computers been available in his lifetime.
