Tessellations: Islamic Tile Patterns + M. C. Escher

Tessellations: Islamic Tile Patterns and M.C. Escher and The Moyer House

"Number is the tune to which all things move, and as it were make music; it is in the pulses of the blood no less than in the starred curtain of the sky. It is a necessary concomitant alike of the sharp bargain, the chemical experiment, and the fine frenzy of the poet.

From: Tiles in New York (Michael Padwee). Detail of tessellated, glazed ceramic tiles forming colorful geometric patterns in the Alhambra. Photo credit: By D M Harvey - own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

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