Hop's Escher Tesselation Tiles
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Rams

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Hop David Coloring Books

A Hop David coloring book of Escher like tessellations

A Hop David coloring book of various geometrical landscapes. To be released in February of 2009. A lot of pages are devoted to space filling polyhedra with an emphasis on octahedra alternating with tetrahedra. There's also some polyhedra studies, logarithmic spirals, fractals (only the first few iterations or they'd be impossible to color!) and some miscellaneous. This book includes a CD. I think these coloring books will be a good tool for teachers in helping get kids interested in math.

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Some of my illustrations are in a book by Burkard Polster Eye Twisters which has been out since spring of 2008.
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Too many thumbnails take a long time to download.
If you'd still like to use the thumbnail links they're at
Tile Thumbnail Gallery 1    and    Tile Thumbnail Gallery 2
Or you can use the text links below.
Dog and Bug  
Scorpions
Horned Changos (Monkeys)
Horned Toad  
Democrats and Republicans
Lynx
Santa
Jester  
Cat and Bird
Musicians
Animated Perspective Study
Fourier study. Animated Sine & Cosine Waves
Twisted Squares - an optical illusion (by my nephew, Gery)
Kreeften - A hexagonal tile by Peter Raedschelders
Koch Snowflake
Koch/Anti Koch Snowflake
Woman Lying Down  
Geezer
Spinning Spirals
Flying Pigs
Angels & Devils
Rams
Monkey Dog
Fish
Toad
Dragon
Karateka
Dr. Fathauer's Fractal V 
NEW! (as of 9-26-2008) Horse and Rider
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Hop's Outer Space Pages
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My tessellation posters are available at Instructional Images

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Arabic Tiles
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17 Wallpaper Groups

All images Copyright 2008.
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My gallery of paintings and drawings
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Hop's Pages:

Tessellating Blocks Toys that tessellate have the power to approximate any shape.

Delta Blocks (Inspired by Escher) This page discusses my toy which was inspired by M.C. Escher's print Flatworms.  Flatworms shows a structure made from the octahedron/tetrahedron tessellation. The octahedron, tetrahedron structure was also promoted by Buckminster Fuller.

Ram's Horn. A ram's horn spiral plus some spiral tessellations.

Buckminster Fuller's Octetruss This page briefly discusses Buckminster Fuller's invention based on the octahedron/tetrahedron tessellation. For more on Fuller please go to the Links to Other Folks Pages page.

Other Escher Ideas
Escher Perspective Study This page discusses perspective, also features one of my drawings - "Crab".

Escher Dyson Sphere To me this print by Escher looks like a Dyson Sphere! I wonder what he would have thought of this bizarre interpretation.

Curl-Ups as Robots? I asked a Dutch friend to translate the Escher print "Curl Ups". His comments suggest Curl Ups as robots. His translation and comments are on this page.

Miscellaneous
Fractals from Kepler's Solids This page discusses a fractal idea I had, plus illustrations.

Double Tetrahedron Fractal. A three dimensional  version of the double triangle fractal. This model is incomplete and not very well done. However, I think it suggests an likable family of fractals. This family has an interesting connection with the golden mean

Some thoughts on Christianity

Links To Other Folk's Pages This is an indeed motley assortment of pages. Lots of good stuff!

Hop's Personal Page A page about me.

Ajo Copper News. Our business, a weekly newspaper

Gabrielle's page My sister's page