Workshop: Escher Tessellation ‘CUTE to UGLY’ Transformation

This video was shown to us in our workshop. I found this video very amusing, this is because I’ve always had thing for mathematical graphics. Such as symmetry.

This is the YouTube tutorial link that was provided on our workshop brief for this task. I watched the whole video and then used the instructions given in the video tutorial, to create my own ‘Escher Tessellation’.

STEP 1: following the YouTube tutorial

STEP 2: scanning in the drawn outline of the tessellation’s shape into Adobe Photoshop CC.

STEP 3: filling in the shape using the ‘Bucket too’

STEP 4: copying the first layer, so that the shape can be tested to fit inside each other.

YouTube tutorials outcome of the Escher Tessellation.

STEP 5: starting working on the transformation from the word ‘CUTE’ to ‘UGLY’.

STEP 6: draw ‘CUTE’ features onto the template of the top shape, and then duplicate this layer to the rest.

STEP 7: draw ‘UGLY’ features onto the bottom template, and then duplicate onto the rest of the bottom templates.

The gallery above shows the steps that I took in order to achieve my final transformation from ‘cute’ to ‘ugly’.

This is my final ‘Escher Tessellation transformation’ from ‘cute’ to ‘ugly’. I am very pleased with this outcome, as I have spent a lot of time creating this transformation piece. Furthermore I have learnt a lot from the experience of producing this. Mostly about the rules of ‘Escher Tessellations’ and the mathematics behind it. I think this transformation is visually intriguing and mind puzzling for viewers, questioning as to how the transformation works.

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