Monday, February 18, 2008

Of Elephants & Mice




-Dominique Ribault (French)
Professor of Mathematics, artist, Mission Laique Francaise

"Inspired by Escher and Vasarely, my artworks use recent mathematical theory about the relationships between topology and group theory. I have created tessellations involving planes, polygons, logarithmic spirals, cylinders, spheres, tori and knots for all the 19 families of plane tessellations"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i saw a similar pic at ramesh's place. the only diff is that it was in a square and approx there are 256 elephants

-bhargava

Paddy said...

Interesting, considering that this was recent. I like it because if you concentrate closely on the center, it gives you an illusion of movement