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Morning Open Thread: World Tessellation Day [1]

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Date: 2023-06-17  

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Today is World Tessellation Day, started in 2016 by Emily Grosvenor, author of Tessellation!, a children’s book about tessellations (patterns) in nature; she chose June 17 because it is the birthday of M.C. Escher, famous for the complicated patterns in his prints and drawings, many of them tessellations.

Bird-Fish — by M.C. Escher

A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps. ‘Tiling’ is another word for tessellation.

Amit Majmudar (1979 – ) American diagnostic nuclear radiologist, novelist, poet, and translator was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Indian immigrants. Poet Zara Raab describes his poetry as able to “reveal tenderness in their humanity and the precision of a surgeon in their details.” His poetry collection 0˚, 0˚ was a finalist for a Poetry Society of America’s Norman Faber First Book Award, and his collection Heaven and Earth was chosen for a Donald Justice Prize.

Pattern and Snarl

by Amit Majmudar

Life likes a little mess. All patterns need a snarl.

The best patterns know how best to heed a snarl.

Every high style, every strict form was once nonce.

The best way to save a snagged pattern? Repeat the snarl.

“Pattern and Snarl” © 2012 by Amit Majmudar appeared in Smithsonian Magazine’s September 2012 issue

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