Aperiodic Tilings Exhibition at the Open University, June 2022.
In honor of Uwe Grimm. Check out all of the cool artwork and in particular my self-similar self-portraits!
Spiral Circuit
Natalie Priebe Frank, 2018.
Mobile. Glass beads, acrylic, nylon thread.
Click here for a video of the mobile in action.
“Spiral Circuit”. A composite photo of the mobile.
Two-Dimensional Pieces
“Girl with pigtails”, Inkjet on clear acrylic, circa 1998.
“Rhino”, inkjet on clear acrylic, 2003.
“Hearts”, inkjet on paper, 2012.
Older Virtual Work
I can produce a lot of beautiful tiling images that represent specific things. Check out some of them below, and if you want to try your hand at it, use the Tiling Generator 3.1 (for Matlab). Or use the open-source code PROTOTILE, by Billie J. Rinaldi.
Here are some images I’ve created from self-similar tilings:
Let’s go VC!
Try to figure out the relationship between the birds in this flock!
Who says mathematicians don’t make money?
Did you like those tilings? Do you have Matlab?
Then get Tiling Generator 3.1, (April 2008) by Natalie Priebe Frank and Billie J. Rinaldi!
- Download the Manual first. This contains instructions for using the Tiling Generator 3.1.
- Download the zipped file TilingGenerator3-1. Open Matlab, get to the path TilingGenerator3-1/colors.
- Typing tiles at the Matlab prompt from TilingGenerator3-1/colors will launch the software!
The Fourier transform of a tiling:
Page last updated March 14, 2018.