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23 Simple Ways to Celebrate #WorldTessellationDay #WorldTessDay

6/13/2016

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It's coming! The first-ever World Tessellation Day celebration will happen this Friday, June 17.

Why June 17?

This date, suggested by math advocate John Golden, was chosen by a group of committed tessellation fans around the world and is the birth date of M.C. Escher, the Dutch artist whose tessellated artworks put tessellation at the forefront of art.

We have a Facebook community going where people are sharing images of their favorite tessellations in the run-up to this brand new holiday. But since this is a holiday-in-the-making, I thought I'd put together this list of simple ways you can be a part of the making of a global event.

Simple Ways to Celebrate #WorldTessellationDay #WorldTessDay

1. Take a picture of a tessellated floor.

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2. Make Your Own Tessellation

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Need a primer on how? Use this tutorial.

3. Wear houndstooth or other tessellated pattern

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4. Make some hexagon cookies -- they tessellate!

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5. Play with a toy that tessellates, like these turtles.

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6. Post your favorite M.C. Escher tessellation

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7. Find the nearest chain-link fence

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8. Wear something with a beehive on it

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9. Find the nearest tessellation station (like this one at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle)

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10. Play Settlers of Catan

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11. Read Tessalation!, my story book about a little girl named Tessa who hides in patterns

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12. Discover how people have used tessellations

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13. Color one of these tessellation coloring pages

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14. Find tessellated tiles in a public setting (like these from Spain)

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15. Explore how artists, such as Chris Watson, are using tessellation

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16. Hug some friends under a tessellated quilt

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17. Or: Plan your next quilt and make it a tessellation

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18. Get patriotic with your tessellations (like with this box lid by Bruce Bilney)

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19. Solve age-old conflicts with tessellation to show how we are all connected

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20. Discover how people are using tessellation to solve problems, as in the creation of this Tessellation Pavillion

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Photo by Chris Knapp

22. Explore this tessellation Pinterest Page

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23. Declare your love of tessellations to the world on June 17!

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Use the hashtags #WorldTessellationDay and #WorldTessDay to help create this holiday celebrating the beauty, wonder and practical applications of tessellation.

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8/25/2017 04:56:44 am

This time is worth of celebrating this event which seems to be the most exciting thing ever. I have always enjoyed the things that are meant to be logical and useful.

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