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Chapter 5 Geometric Designs
Chapter 5 Geometric Designs
WHAT IS GEOMETRY?
Source: https://www.britannica.com/science/geometry
Recognizing and Analyzing Geometric Shapes
Honeycomb
Spider’s Web
Peacock’s Feather
Nautilus Shell
Petals of Flower
Galaxy
Snowflakes
Symmetry is an exact
configuration of an
image around an axis of
symmetry.
Butterfly
Plant Leaves
chessboard
honeycomb snake skin
MALACANANG PALACE
SAN SEBASTIAN CHURCH official residence of the Philippine President
Manila, Philippines
The fact that they can only have these two rigid motions is
called Leonardo’s Theorem.
CYCLIC DIHEDRAL
ROSETTE PATTERN ROSETTE PATTERN
These are rosette patterns These are rosette patterns
which do not contain which have reflection
reflection symmetry. symmetry.
The T’boli of South Cotabato make their fabrics from abaca as well.
They’re well known for their t’nalak cloth, which is used in occasions
like birth, marriage, and death. The embroidery used to accentuate
their traditional blouses narrate the story of their relationship with
nature and spirits.
Sumerian Mosaic
He created tessellations on
woodworks and made 137
tessellations in his lifetime.
A demi-regular tessellation is
an edge-to-edge tessellation,
wherein the arrangement at
each vertex in a tessellation of
regular polygon is not the
Demi-Regular same.
Aperiodic Tiling
Roger Penrose
Penrose Triangle
Tessellation can be seen in the arts, chessboards, restrooms, walls, floors, and others.
Common shapes are arranged in unusual ways, sometimes a unusual shape will
tessellate and sometimes two or more different shapes will tessellate.