Special Topics:Tilings

Every week over 3000 museum visitors use the Triangle Tiling exhibit developed by the Geometry Center in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota. The program features mathematical concepts such as the relationship between Platonic and Archimedean solids, and the dual of a polyhedron. The program is also used extensively at the Center itself during interactive tours, and will be on display at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in July 1994. This picture is a snapshot of the screen when the tiling is a flat plane.

How to make it: Triangle Tiling is an external module of Geomview that runs on SGI workstations.

Image created: Spring, 1994

Copyright © Spring, 1994 by The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For permission to use this image, contact permission@geom.umn.edu.

External viewing: small (100x100 7k gif), medium (500x400 104k gif), or original size (1280x1024 429k tiff).

Comments to: webmaster@geom.umn.edu
Created: Thu Jun 25 15:09:39 CDT 1998 --- Last modified: Thu Jun 25 15:09:39 CDT 1998